At what age did you put your dc to bed on their own in the early evening?

[HeadFairy]

Since dd was born 10 weeks ago she's been sleeping in her moses basket in the living room with us in the early evening until we go to bed. I'm starting to wonder if she should be sleeping in our bedroom from 7pm instead of being downstairs. We lived in a tiny flat when ds was born so it wasn't an issue, because he slept in our bedroom which was inches from the living room.

Erm...dd started falling asleep at about 7ish at about 4 months I think, and she's in our bedroom then. SHe doesn't always do it, depends on daytime naps, and if she's still awake she stays with us

i found with my 3 that at some point they started getting very tired at around 7/8pm and were not wanting to wake up really after their next feed.
that's when i started leaving them in my room

no way i was traipsing up and down staris while they were having more awake time during the evening!

My dd was on her own in her own room the day we came back from hospital after she was born. She was never in our room.

I think my DS was around 10 weeks ish when we started putting him up in the evenings, we put a radio on low though as advised by the health visitor, then just switched it off when we went to bed as we were in the same room.

We started to do a bedtime routine - feed, play, bath, feed, and then to sleep in her cot in her own room - at about 12 weeks. Before that we had tried to put DD down in her moses basket in our room, but she never settled as well in there. Took a few days, perhaps a week, for that to settle in.

I'd scanned loads of MN threads about this kind of thing over the preceding couple of weeks.

Good luck

From day one with dd's 1&2 as when they were babies we lived in a flat where our bedroom was next to the lounge, with dd3 and dd4 from around 6 weeks.

HeadFairy, DS1 wasput to sleep (!) in his carry cot on our window seat with us downstairs at 7pm from bith and he went upstairs to his cot at about 4 months. DS2 however went upstairs from day one, mainly beacuse he had to slot into our existing routine...which he of course did, just fine!

DS1 could sleep with TV on no problem - DS2 always settled better as a little baby much quicker without blaring going on.

I do think that monitors are brilliant at giving peace of mind in the early months - and later when they can talk away, they are a source of much mirth! good luck

about 4 - 6 weeks.

DD3, now 20 weeks. Was sleeping in our room in Moses basket until last week. Started waking at 5am and practicing her voice so moved to her own room. All sleeping much better as a result. Started bedtime routine at 12 weeks. Bath, feed and bed at 7. Took a couple of nights to start settling easily but now she goes down lovely. Started this when she started to spend most evening downstairs with us asleep. We wake her for a dreamfeed at 11 before we go to bed.

Same as Blowbroth - DS did sleep in our room for the first couple of nights (that was enough) - but bedtime was always 7pm and that meant 'it is nightime - upstairs to bed' - have to say that DS has always been good at going to bed, and a great sleeper, now aged 9 and happily goes up at 7.30pm.

I don't think it's a "should be" thing but more that babies eventually reach a stage where they prefer to be in a quieter environment, usually, and/or many parents reach a stage where they want the baby safely stowed away in another room and their evenings back, all else being equal. But until one or other of these things happens there's nothing wrong with her being downstairs at all, imo. If everyone's happy downstairs there's no problem.

oops, sorry, I fell asleep on the sofa last night! DD does sleep ok downstairs with us during the evening, She has a bath with her brother and then I usually feed her while I'm reading ds his bedtime story and she falls asleep in my arms then I take her downstairs and put her in her moses basket. I think I'll leave it a couple more weeks so that routine is well and truely imprinted on her psyche and then start putting her down in the moses basket in our bedroom.

The only complication is that ds likes to fall asleep in our bed and then I move him to his bed later, but I'm hoping the exciting purchase of ds's new big boy's bed will encourage him to fall asleep in his bed from the off so that dd can sleep in our bedroom without him trying to wake her up!

About 12 weeks with ds1. Until then he just screamed all day and night and didn't really do sleep.
Ds2 from day 2. I put him to bed in his cot (in his room not ours) at 7pm, got him up for feeds, and put him back there again.

With all 3 of mine it was around 5 or 6 weeks. Basically it just coincided with when they started to settle well at 7pm ish. Prior to that they would be unsettled and gripey in the evenings so I'd have them down with us in moses basket, but once they started to drop off to sleep well at 7pm ish I put them to sleep upstairs.

Probably about 3 or 4 months. Both of mine had terrible evening colic so it definitely wouldn't have been earlier than that.

5 months. He wasn't ready to go to bed at 7pm (more like 10:30pm) before then and we'd have been up and down all evening.