Curious about bedtimes

kristinyoung111 · August 2013

When does you LO go to bed? Mine always seems to refuse to sleep for the night before 1 am. I don't know if it is an issue or something I should try to change. She doesn't get a lot of naps during the day (she won't stay asleep during the daytime).

Millar321 · August 2013

Our DD is 9weeks. Goes down every night by 7:30pm at the latest and wakes around 3:00am to eat, then back down till 7:00am.

VPGIRL06 · August 2013

not sure when your LO was born, but by 3 weeks we were putting LO down in between 7 and 8 pm, and that;s been her schedule since. Your ticker suggests your LO is almost 3 months, which means I would definitely start a bed time routine that aims to get LO down by 7 or 730. Not sleeping during the day probably doesn't help-have you tried black out curtains for her room?

lynsef · August 2013

DS is 2 weeks old. He doesnt sleep long stretches yet but I feed him read to him and put him in bed at about 730 so I can gety other 2 in bed by 8-830.

costa2011 · August 2013

9:30, she won't go down any earlier than that. I've tried and as soon as she lays in the crib, her eyes shoot open.

kristinyoung111 · August 2013

Yes, my LO is almost three months. I don't have blackout curtains in her room yet (good idea!), but we do have some in our room, and she is very comfortable in our bed. I take her back there sometimes to try to get her to nap during the day. Sometimes this makes her sleep a bit but she is still insisting on staying up. I don't come home from work until about 10:30 pm so I am sure that doesn't help much. I'm wondering if maybe that's the problem? Once she is down, she sleeps pretty well. She wakes up around 6 am to eat, then is back to sleep until about 8 or 9 am.

VPGIRL06 · August 2013

Yeah, blackout curtains were a lifesaver. Just now, at 5.5 months we've been able to take the blackout curtains down (she sleeps with her face pressed against the mesh bumper-always has. no idea why) but prior to that it really helped her sleep during the day during naps.

That probabley has a lot to do with it, our LO's will often mimic our schedules as far as sleeping/when we're around. I know most research suggests an earlier bed time however, so it may help regulate her sleeping in the day and night.

amcongdon · August 2013

We let him figure out his own schedule which meant he went to bed between 7 and 8 each night. Now we start is bedtime routine around 7 so he goes down for sure during that time. We go to bed pretty early though too since we are up at 4 a.m. for work each day.

Nora1985 · August 2013

We usually start her routine around 9pn.. she's 11 weeks and we do a bath (daddy does that), feeding with soft music, and rocking and paci. She falls asleep within 20 min and sleeps until about 4am

smellychelly25 · August 2013

We start bed time between 630-730pm. That includes walking, bath time and eating. He is usually down before 830.

Critter015 · August 2013

With my DD (18 months) we've always tried for an 8:00 bedtime. DH and I were both working full time and didn't get home until 6:30 so that was the earliest we could get her down after dinner and bathtime. Now I will be staying home with both kids so I am trying to have DS go to bed by 7 so I can do DD's bedtime routine without worrying about him.

JLDillon17 · August 2013

DD2 is 12 weeks and goes down for the night between 930 and 1030 after her last feeding. It was like this with DD1 up until she was about 6-8mo. Now we have DD1 in bed by 830.

supersarah77 · August 2013

We both go to sleep after the feeding that happens around 9:00 or 10:00 pm. We have a bedtime routine but not a hard and fast schedule. LO is 6 weeks old.

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