When did you start a bedtime routine with your baby?

[babypanther]

I have a 1 month old DD, I know I’m probably jumping the gun a bit as she’s too young to know day from night, but I wondered at what age did you introduce a bedtime routine for your baby? And did it help them to sleep at night?

My sister in law has 3 children and told me that for all three girls she would give them a bath, bedtime story and bottle then put to bed from about a month old, and that all three of them slept really well through the night. I know every baby is different but wondered about other peoples’ experiences?

6-8 weeks, as much for our routine as hers. She slept beautifully until the regression at 4.5 months. Now I don’t think the routine makes f all difference lol.

From about 2 weeks I think, I don't think we actively did it but at 8 weeks our baby slept through the night, so we stuck with the routine every night

It meant we didn't have to think and just did it

I better add I don't think the routine made a difference to our baby it felt easier on us though

About 8 weeks

Birth. Not a set time straight away but doing bath, bottle, book and bed in the same order and by 2 weeks, we gradually started to introduce a 7pm bedtime.

He slept 12 hours by 8 weeks so it worked well for us as well as putting him down awake and teaching him how to self settle.

He's a few weeks off 4 months now so I'm waiting for the sleep regression to ruin it all. 😂

About 3.5 months we brought bed time earlier and did bath, bottle, bed. Otherwise she was downstairs with us until her last feed before bed was due and we did this feed upstairs in the dark before putting her in crib. We did that from about 2 weeks

Not for months! Although ours was a great sleeper and went through the night at 8wks and was doing 12hrs a night by 12wks. We didn’t have a routine until they were a bit older though (in terms of bath and books), think we started that around 6-7months.

About 4 months. We don't do a bath every night as it isn't good for babies skin to be washed that much.

Probably about 4 to 6 weeks or so I think. We consistently gave DD a bath, got her ready for bed, bottle and then into her sleeping bag and into her crib with Euan the Dream Sheep on.

About 4-5 months I think! Started simple (no bath, just book, just me alone) then introduced more structure & Daddy too. She’s now 10.5 months and goes down like a dream!

Hi, first time Mum here :) at what age did you start getting your baby into a nighttime routine? I have an 8 week old and at the moment we are feeding on demand and letting baby sleep as and when he wants as well (sometimes contact naps, sometimes in his bassinet). He doesnt sleep through the night yet as usually wakes every 3 hours. We usually give him a bath and bottle before we have our tea and then he contact naps on DP or I for majority the of the evening whilst we are downstairs watching TV. This allows DP (who is at work all day) to have some quality contact time with our baby. We go upstairs whenever we want to go to bed (usually about 10pm) and do a final feed and cuddles before putting him down in his crib. I have seen other posts where people are doing bath/bottle/bed at 6:30/7pm but I don't understand how to do this when the NHS advice is to let them sleep in the same room as you for the first 6 months. Unless people are also going to bed when they put their baby down, which would give us no evening as a couple. Advice needed please :)