Hi there, I have a 7 week old son, my first. I know that many children 'go to bed' at 7 or 8pm but I don't know how to get my baby to sleep at that time. Does anyone have any advice? At the moment he naps well in the daytime - good 1.5-2.5 hour naps three or four times a day, but is wakeful and unpredictable in the evening i.e. 8/9/10pm. I always give him a bottle at 11pm and he will sleep through until around 4am, I breast feed, then he goes back to sleep (say 4.20/4.30) until around 6am-ish.. So I can predict the night-time sleeps and the day times too, but it's the evening part that is confusing me. I give him a bath at 7.30pm but he's awake after that and not sleepy and so I can't just put him down as he will cry as not interested.. is this normal at this stage? How do I turn 8pm into 'bed time' and get him to sleep until the 'dream feed' at 11pm?
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