Bed times?

ximenita003 · January 2014

I've been starting the bedtime ritual (a bath, a massage, layering up and bouncing him to sleep) at 7pm, which usually puts us at 7:45 for bedtime. But then we usually have to be in and out soothing him until 9ish. Am I starting too early? What time do you guys put your LO down for the night?

tammura · January 2014

We start around 830 with our routine. It takes our LO about an hour and a half to two hours to actually go down on some nights

mbafall09 · January 2014

LO is 7 weeks and we usually put him down between 9 and 10pm. Occasionally we'll start at 8:30 but not really earlier than that.

JaysonandKristin · January 2014

We start bedtime routine at 6:30-7:00. She is asleep by 7:30-8:00.

Kaymee · January 2014

The past two nights have been midnight and waking at 6am. But, he was doing 10pm before that, waking around 4am. I'm hoping we go back to that.

DreamDisney · January 2014

Were a 10:30-11 last feeding and asleep after.

ranaverde · January 2014

I agree with PP - it depends on how old your baby is. A few weeks ago, ours wasn't ready for night sleep (waking only to feed, going back to sleep right after) until about midnight or later. Then about a week ago, she started suddenly being ready for bed around 7pm or so. It doesn't always work (right now she's lying in a dim room in her rock and play muttering to herself) but most of the time she's ready to sleep then.

ximenita003 · January 2014

My LO is 7 weeks. Tonight we started later- around 7:30, he was passed out by 8:30 but woke up at 9ish to eat again. We just established a bed time routine in the last couple weeks and it's been working out most nights. In the beginning he would wail from 10-11pm. I think my little guy is going through a growth spurt because he is eating every 1-2 hours but not eating on as long. How I wish I could see how much he is eating without having to use bottles.

Kfran84 · January 2014

LO starts cluster feeding at about 6:30 and eats three times before bed. Whatever feeding is closest to 8:30 is the one I take him to his nursery to do and then lay him down to sleep in his crib. He is out in like 20 minutes and he will sleep 4-5 hours that first stretch.

ATXMamaDoll · January 2014

He usually goes down for night time sleep around 9. Then it's up every three to 5 hours to nurse. It doesn't always work that way. Sometimes ( like last night) he wakes up an hour after going to sleep sometime around four or 5. Ick. Curve balls suck.

SamanthaPo · January 2014

We usually get her to sleep around 10 or 10:30. Sometimes she goes down earlier. We usually take a bath at 8. Then a massage, cuddling, and her last meal before she goes down for the night.

ATXMamaDoll · January 2014

I am curious what you guys are doing as a massage for baby. It's a nice idea.

Jmo30 · January 2014

Mine is 9 weeks and we start bath at 9pm and make sure she's awake for at least an hour before that so she's ready to sleep when her bath is done.

TexanArrington · January 2014

8 weeks old, start routine at 7:00 ish, she goes down 7:30-8:00. E wakes up once to feed around 3:00, then up for the day around 6:00. She has been having this routine since she was about 6 weeks.

Mum2Be28 · January 2014

9 weeks old and we do our routine around 6:30 and he's usually asleep a little after 7. But we do It at that time because I wrote everything LO did down in a notebook for weeks and determined that he just had a consistent schedule on his own and was always asleep for the night by 7. Occasionally he will catch a late dinner time cat nap and then I can tell he's not ready for bed until more like 8:30. So I'm not strict about the 7:00 bed time or anything.

ximenita003 · January 2014

I just run lotion or oil all over his body and rub his legs, arms, hands, etc. he likes it

tisunge602 · January 2014

Kfran84 said:

LO starts cluster feeding at about 6:30 and eats three times before bed. Whatever feeding is closest to 8:30 is the one I take him to his nursery to do and then lay him down to sleep in his crib. He is out in like 20 minutes and he will sleep 4-5 hours that first stretch.

This, only our last feeding is at 9:30 and we aim to put him down at 10. On a good night he will sleep til 4am and then again til 7:30 or 8.

DebateThis · January 2014

We shoot for 11pm to get into bed, nurse and maybe one final diaper, then swaddle and lights out by midnight. He sleeps til between 6-7 AM most days with that schedule. If we try to push his bedtime earlier, for some reason he's up several times a night (we did a 9pm bedtime the other day and he was up at 11, 1, 3:45, and 5:30) and isn't real happy the next day, so we're sticking with what works for now.

artistlife · January 2014

We *try* to have her in her crib by 900. We only do a bath every other night, but we apply lotion, change into jammies, and then eat. She is one of those babies that falls asleep on the boob every time. I also read a book. I am very big on reading. She still doesn't sleep for very long. We get two to three hours throughout the night.

Dreamingmommy4 · January 2014

Usually last feeding between 10-12am and then down for 4-5hours. Then eat again then down for another 3-4hr chunk. Then up for the day.

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