Is 11pm bedtime for 2 month old ok?

[poopantsmum]

Starting to get into a routine with 2 month-old DD - she falls asleep about 10.30 - 11.30 pm and wakes at 9am ish (with one quick feed at 6ish). This works great for us cos she's awake when DH gets home from work for playtime and allows me to get some good sleep, we still get to have our dinner in peace cos she'll happily 'play' for half an hr by herself ... is there any reason we should try to move her bedtime to a more traditional 7pm ish?

no! if it works for you then stick with it, she'll naturally change over time.

God no!

Do whatever works for you! We used to let DD nap downstairs as and when she needed to, but then all go up to bed at 11ish, last feed, down to sleep, all wake around 6-8ish. We all had a good night's sleep.

She is 2.9yrs now and goes to bed around 7-8pm and wakes around 7am.

If it aint broke don't fix it!
My DD had a bedtime of 10.30 until she was about 4mo. Then she started having less sleeps in the day, and getting more tired in the evening, so we shifted everything to 7pm bedtime.

Nooo I wouldn't worry just yet, I would say survive the first 3 months anyway you can as far as sleep is concerned! You can gradually bring in it back when ready! When LO is a bit bigger you might find a earler edtime is more settling for them anyway.
But noooo that souds a fab stretch of sleep don't risk changing it yet

Sounds good to me!
11.30 til 6? at 2 months? Stick at it!!!!

if it works for you then dont worry bout it, my 15week old goes down between 9:30-10pm and she'll sleep through til 6:30-7am.
she'll sit in her bouncer while we have tea then have her bath and feed and nap downstairs but we're going to try and get her in cot before last feed.

We used to do exactly this, it worked really well for us. Don't change it if it's working!

The only reason to switch to an earlier bedtime would be so you and DH could eat/chill out in peace, but it seems you're getting to do that anyway.

Some babies are a nightmare in the evening, so it can be good to have them asleep rather than constantly crying and feeding.

No, this is great. Don't force it. Sounds exactly like my DD at 2 months. She starting falling asleep earlier at around 3-4 months, ie 9pm for a couple of weeks, and then right back to 7.30pm which is where she's at now. She wakes at 6.30am nowadays.

Really, this is great for 2 months old. IMO it is easier all round, if she is doing something that is working for you as a family, not to mess with it or try to change her natural routine.

It might be worth trying to change it if her natural routine was exhausting and she was awake in the night, but as it is - sounds perfect!

brilliant thanks, at least I don't feel I'm in some way damaging the natural order of things. Bechka, it's great to hear your DD gradually moved her bedtime forward herself, one less thing to worry about

At 2 months old it sounds fine. I started moving my baby towards a more traditional bedtime routine at around 3 months, which was because myself and my partner really needed some time together in the evenings, and our baby mainly just slept all evening downstairs with us anyway! There really is no pressing hurry, things can move in that direction over time.

Normal, normal, normal. :)

With both of mine, the bedtime just naturally moved earlier and earlier as they got older until it stuck at 7pm. So no effort required on our part. Getting them to sleep through the night was another issue.

Both mine were breastfed, and so they needed the cluster feeding late at night. Even with formula, it's unusual for a baby to sleep through like yours if bedtime is early. If it ain't broke...

our daughter was the same - now at 16 weeks she sleeps for 10-12 hours and has naturally moved her bedtime to somewhere between 8/9pm

Most babies start off with a late bedtime but it gradually moves earlier till around 4-5 months most are going to bed between 6 and 8pm. But go with whatever suits her and you.

And I can't believe how well she sleeps - I wish my 7 m.o. did that!

Sounds perfect for your lifestyle so wouldn't change anything just yet.

However, for our family we needed to be up and about by 7am latest as DH had to go to work (if our DD was not awake by 7am then she would inevitably get woken by him iyswim) SO we always aimed for a 7pm bedtime because she was awake by 7am. So in our case a 7pm bedtime worked. She always woke around 10.30pm or we work her for her last feed then she was immediately asleep again. This lasted until she was 8 months old when she stopped waking or we stopped waking her at 10.30pm and she simply slept all the way from 7 to 7.

So 7pm bedtime suited us from birth really but for you it seems like the later bedtime is better.

2 months is practically newborn - so if you've got a routine that works for you you should thank your lucky stars and don't rock the boat.

Sounds good to me - dd is 13 weeks and she falls asleep around 9:30/10pm and if she gets to 4am without waking I consider myself lucky. Also DP would never see her if she went to bed later. Am planning to encourage a slightly earlier bedtime when she is doing 10-6 consistently (if it ever happens!).

Ds always fell asleep at 7:30pm and do his longest stretch of sleep then so I never got the benefit of it unless I went to bed then, too.

DS didn't go to bed early in the evening until he was walking! Didn't see a need for it really. Even now he sometimes stays up and plays in the evenings while I MN - that way I get a lie in!