What time does your baby go to bed?

[fifitot]

Just wondering....Have a 10 week old and am not really an avid 'routine' person but he has found his own rhythm - if you like.

His BF so cluster feeds on and off from about 6pm until 9pm when I put him in his moses basket in the bedroom and then he sleeps for a good few hours - usually. I would like to get to a point where he is going to bed 7ish like my older DD but can't recall when she started to go to bed at that time as a baby.

No point in putting him down at 7 now as I would be up and down stairs feeding him anyway but just wondered of others' experiences.

Thanks.

8pm, not before not after 8pm. He started doing it when I tried putting him down at 2 weeks and hasn't stopped. Is like he has an off switch, if we are out he is off in the buggy or the sling but he will be asleep at 8pm. Strange child.

DD2 is 14 weeks now... she too cluster feeds in the evening, she used to keep going til 11pm, when she would conk out for a few hours, but it started getting earlier and earlier, and now she falls asleep at 8 ish (not quite as punctual as Morloth's )She falls into a dead sleep and we can put her in the moses basket no probs, could probably have a party and she wouldn't wake up!

The problem is she then wakes up again at 11-12 ish and will not settle back in the moses basket, then ends up in bed with me and feeds on and off all night I miss the days when she would feed til 11 but then sleep til 3!

I wouldn't worry too much at this stage, as he is still very young. As he gets older and is awake more in the day/going longer between feeds I'm sure he will find more of a routine.

Having said this my dd is only 3 weeks old, but already she is having to fit in with ds's routine...eg. They both have baths at the same time, read bedtime story to ds either whilst feeding or while they are both there, and then put them both down about 7.30pm. Dd is usually asleep by 8pm but does wake again between before 10 for a feed...if she hasnt I wake her as dont want to be up feeding all night!!

I agree with roo- anything goes at this age!

FWIW, when our dd (now 7mo) was about 5-6 weeks old I started doing every evening feed from around 6pm onwards in the darkened bedroom and putting her in her moses basket after each one. This wasn't an attempt to "get" her to go down in the evening, it was just more relaxing for both of us than being downstairs with the telly/other people etc. I loved our quiet time together. For a couple of weeks I spent the evenings popping up and down to feed/cuddle/do all the normal things with her.

Then suddenly around 7-8 weeks she went down at 7pm and slept through the evening (not the whole night, though, I must point out!) and we had our evenings back which was fab. I suppose it was a case of giving her the opportunity to do this, so that she did when she was ready, rather than trying to make her do it.

ps she's been a 7pm girl ever since- no earlier, no later!

With DS2 - had the same problem but I still put him down in the cot at 7pm as I wanted to get the routine sorted. I understand the pain it is but the cluster feeds doesnt last long and leaving baby up late just becomes a bad routine to start.

No problems now with either child.