What time is bedtime?

Joel&Layna · August 2014

Hi all! FTM with a 6 week old. Don't worry, we aren't sleep training

but just curious what time you consider bedtime?

We try to have her down by 10, but starting to see signs that maybe we could move that up.

TIA!

flcl · August 2014

At 6 weeks old, our little guy had a later bedtime as well. We tried to have him down between 8-9pm. We slowly worked that bedtime up to where it is now, b/w 6:30-7pm and that's worked for us. I'm sure you keep hearing that all babies are different so try to follow her cues!

kassidybl · August 2014

Our little guy started out his 5 weeks wanting to go down at midnight, at around week 6, he started showing sleep signs and fussiness at about 8:30. So we started shower with dad at around 8:30 to tire him out, lotion, change, and dress, then finally feed to knock him out til his next night time feed when I join him in bed to sleep and nurse (before then he sleeps swaddled in his co-sleeper).

azaretsky · August 2014

We put the baby down around the same time my DS goes to bed - so around 8pm. That time works for her and we're still doing that today.

jenlynne0624 · August 2014

Little man is 8 weeks old and for the last 3 weeks or so has been going to bed between 830 and 930. He did that on his own, and frankly, I am not complaining.

britab · August 2014

Baby went to bed when we did the first 8 weeks ish (around 10) and then we started transitioning earlier since she has to get up at 7 now that I'm working again. She goes down about 7:30 and then wakes at 4:00ish to eat with some pacifier wake ups too. GL!

Fletch82 · August 2014

Beging at 5 weeks we start bed time routine around 8pm. Bath, massage, then BF with lights dim and soft music. He's usually down around 9 am.

Edit: I picked this time schedule because I noticed LO always want to eat around 8:30. GL

purtz · August 2014

I've read that an ideal bedtime for newborns/infants is between 7-8pm. With both of our kids, we were initially putting them down later (9pmish); they did so much better when we moved their bedtimes earlier to 7 or 7:30pm!

Purple10o · August 2014

My 5 month old is out by 9pm...around 2 months she went through an 11pm phase but she slowly brought that down on her own...if I keep her up till 10 she only gets up once or twice a night and eats 4oz each time but earlier she gets up at least 3 times and only eats 2oz each time

cutecolleen85 · August 2014

our little boy has been asleep between 9-10 since night 1 home from the hospital.... sometimes it is about 8:30 but it just depends on his nap... how long he sleeps & whether or not he is fussy

every baby is different though!!!!

good luck!!!!!

roo1oo · August 2014

Ever since he got his days and nights worked out, LOs bedtime has been 8pm.

nicolewhelan · August 2014

We put our 8 week old down around midnight most nights and I end up waking him up at 6:30am to eat before dropping him off at the babysitter. I need to move his last bottle up to more like 9:30 or 10 but it's not worked out that way yet. I'll try next week. For those that put your LO down around 8:30/9:00ish, are you feeding them in the middle of the night at all? I want to avoid a middle of the night bottle, I guess that's why we put him down a little later. It's a work in progress:) He's been sleeping through the night (5-6 hours) since 5 weeks, so I'm not complaining.

2redtulips · August 2014

At nearly three weeks old, he sleeps most of the time anyway, but we put him in his crib by 8:30 each night.

He usually wakes to feed around 10:30 (about when DH and I go to bed) and then twice more overnight.

2redtulips · August 2014

roo1oo said:

Ever since he got his days and nights worked out, LOs bedtime has been 8pm.

When did he get his days/nights sorted? We're waiting for that here.

*LrCg* · August 2014

Since birth we've been putting LO to sleep between 7-7:30 and he sleeps until @ 7-8 the next morning waking 2-3 times to nurse then falls asleep while nursing (we bed share). He's 7 weeks so I know in the next few weeks he'll be going to bed earlier since he will be more awake during the day so bedtime will be more like 6:30. Oddly enough this was the same sleep schedule/pattern our other 3 kids had.

NADA-H · August 2014

My 6 weeks old baby goes down between 11pm-midnight and mormally goes down for 3-5 hours, wakes up to feed then goes down for 3-4 hours and then wakes up to feed and then is down for a couple more hours.

Lately though she hasnt been napping well enough during the day and most of her naps (2 naps that are an hour or two long) are at around noon and early afternoon kind of almost attached to her night into morning sleep and then she is up from 4-5 pm and very crancky until 11-12 she could nap for an hour at 6-7 pm but any other naps during the day or night include her falling asleep for 5-10 mins and then waking up. She could go down for 30-40 mins max. When this happens she is down for 6 hours straight at night then wakes up to nurse and sleeps again for two hours then up for nursing then is down again for 1-2 hours.

Is this normal? Can i get her to sleep for a longer stretch without affecting her naps? Can i get her to not be crancky when she isnt napping much? She is usually super cranky and unconsolnle on the days that she has a dirty diaper. She only has one of those ever 2-3 days!!!

coffee89 · September 2014

Around 4 weeks is when we went from baby sleeping whenever to trying to start a routine (obviously not sleep training, but trying to give him the idea of what happens at bedtime) and he was going to bed around 10. At 9-10 weeks we started putting him down around 9pm and that is going well and he is sleeping mostly through the night.

I plan to start pushing that back to about 8:30 and if that goes well then we will probably stick with that for a while since any earlier wouldn't work out as well for our family dynamic. Of course if LO wants a 7pm bedtime, he'll get it though.

nicolewhelan · September 2014

@smhorak what time is his last feeding if you're putting him down around 9pm?

coffee89 · September 2014

nicolewhelan said:

@smhorak what time is his last feeding if you're putting him down around 9pm?

He gets a bottle of formula between 630 and 7 and between when we get him in pajamas and when we swaddle and put down I give him a "snack" by nursing since I'm not making much. It isn't a full feeding but it keeps him happy. It seems to be enough that he is content. Most nights he is ready for a full feeding around 5am but occasionally he will go until 7.

nicolewhelan · September 2014

Thanks! @smhorak I fed LO at 9:40 last night and he was asleep by 11...going to keep moving it up a little bit each night so he goes to bed a little earlier each time. Hopefully by next week he's asleep by 10. DH doesn't get home from work til 10:15pm so he's not looking forward to it. He wants some time with his little buddy when he gets home:(

lauranbowman · November 2014

My baby is 12 weeks and has been pretty much asleep at 9pm every night for the past month. I go to the bedroom and start getting him ready at 8pm since he is getting fussy. I turn on his music box and lamp. Dress him, read him a book, feed him one last time then lay him in his crib. Sometimes he drifts right off and sometimes he wines alittle fighting his sleep but I'm right there beside him and help him with a pacifier. That is the only time he will take it! I'm so proud of him sleeping 6-8 hours each night!

Carolether · December 2014

I'm a FTM: How do i figure out a bedtime for my two month old baby girl? We are currently bed sharing but will be buying a Rock N' Play soon to move her into but still in our bedroom. And should I turn the lights off in our bedroom at night when she sleeps there before we go to bed? I'm trying to figure out how to go about her sleeping in our room and us not ready to go to bed yet?....

lmimms87 · December 2014

DD usually has a bath at 9, then bottle then sleep. She's usually out by 10:30 and sleeps until anywhere between 3-5 then sleeps again until 8-9. I keep trying to move up her bedtime little by little, but no matter when she goes down, she wakes up around 10:15-10:30. We rock her back to sleep and she sleeps fine. Any advice on how to move up her bedtime without her waking up at 10:30?

lmimms87 · December 2014

@Nicb13‌ she usually naps from 4-6, then takes a 30-45 min nap around 7, but then is up. She starts to fuss around 8:30-9, but if I do bath and bottle in time to put her to bed by then she wakes up at 10:30 on the dot...

lmimms87 · December 2014

Nicb13 said:

lmimms87 said:

@Nicb13‌ she usually naps from 4-6, then takes a 30-45 min nap around 7, but then is up. She starts to fuss around 8:30-9, but if I do bath and bottle in time to put her to bed by then she wakes up at 10:30 on the dot...

Maybe that's just the schedule that works for her right now. Hard to know!

She's probably a night owl like I was as a child. It would just be nice if we could get her down closer to 9 to give DH and I a little us time and let us get to sleep earlier. By the time we unwind from getting her down its 11 or later and she wakes up once to eat, then we get up at 6 to go to work.

leela02 · December 2014

My 9 week old doesn't have a consistent bedtime pattern yet, but she usually goes down pretty late (9 or later) and sleeps for 5-6 hrs before her motn bottle. Last week she went down around 10:30 most nights but we were travelling and in a different time zone. Do babies get jet lag? When we got back home she got her 2 month vaccines which seemed to really throw off her feeding and sleeping, so this week she's been all over the place. We've been able to put her down around 7pm once but then she just napped, woke up around 9, fed, then fought sleep until around 11:30. Yesterday she wouldn't nap so she was overtired all day and went down around 8 (very early for her) and has been asleep since then aside from a paci wake-up at 3:30.

TeeJ526 · December 2014

We start bed time between 8PM and 9PM depending on when my LO wakes up from her last nap. She's almost 7 weeks old.

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