3 month old baby fussy in evenings, do I move bed time?

[jamjar84]

13 week old ds, by 6-7pm ish he gets v.fussy and sensitive, doesn’t like doing anything or being stationary. So either me or dh have to hold and walk him round the house or sway him. That or him taking the last nap is the only way we can have a bit of peace.

I’m ebf, no strict routine with feeds, he’s recently staying awake little longer, used to be an hour and his last nap can be 30 mins or an hour. Because of this, his last nap time varies.

He’s usually good most of the day. I don’t wanna sound selfish but really want evenings to be less stressful, especially when it comes to bedtime which is around 8.30pm he sometimes gets difficult to settle. And that’s the evening over. We are upstairs trying settle him, and we’re exhausted and go to sleep, all in the same room, ds in next to me.

The questions are, do I move his bedtime earlier? Seems too early at this age. Why does His mood change in the evening? Heard of witching hours, should be tailing off by now?

Could just be normal baby behaviour which he'll probably grow out of soon.

Trying an earlier bedtime wouldn't hurt but at that age I just kept mine downstairs with me until I went to bed or hands them to DH to cuddle or take for a walk if I needed a break.

Hope it’s normal behaviour and grows out of it soon. We try to keep him downstairs with us but he gets so fussy we can’t relax, even until 8 it’s a pain especially when it’s towards the end of the day, having dinner, winding down front of tv etc. then we give up and head upstairs and do the bedtime routine. Doesn’t seem to calm him down. After his feed he still ultra sensitive.

If we move to an earlier bedtime, I’m not sure he’s ready to sleep alone, we still teaching him to sleep in the cot, some nights he needs our hand on his chest so one of us will need to stay with him, or we’ll need to prepare running up and down the stairs if he cries.