12week old's night in the wrong place

[southfacingpuddles]

Our DD is 12weeks and doing well, I'm breast feeding and she has about 3-4oz formula in the evening around 7.30/8, which she drinks rather slowly over an hour or so.

She is pretty good at night, normally goes 4 hrs at some point, but the problem is that her night begins at 11pm, (sleeps till 2/3am) and when she wakes at 6/7am she feeds and goes straight back fast asleep eventually waking properly around 10am. She naps sporadically through the day, feeding about every 3-4 hrs. Normally every 3.

I know she's pretty good, but I really am longing for an evening without kids! Our 3 yr old DS always seemed to go to bed around 7, even though he constantly woke through the night at least we had a couple of hours of adult time whilst awake.

Any ideas as to how we might get her to move the night so it starts and finishes earlier?

Could you start moving her evening bottle feed back a little bit? Maybe by 15 mins at a time? Also, have you started a bedtime ritual with her? That might help too if she has bottle, gums or teeth lightly brushed, then story / song then bed.

Admittedly mine only wound back from about the five/six month mark from (10.30 ish to 8.30ish), but it was the slow change in times and putting a much more formal routine in that seemed to work.

Don't mean to depress you, but some of them just don't until they decide...

Mine was similar and we introduced a proper bedtime routine at around this age and brought his bedtime forward to 8pm (from midnight). Do this slowly though - we did it in one go and although he started going to bed OK at that time he started waking more throughout the night for AGES. Try 15 mins at a time as moonlight suggests.