Baby bedtime, when and what time?

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At what age did your baby get introduced to a bedtime and at what time was it?

For us, bedtime found itself, my DD started “sleeping through” from about 8wks, which meant initially 11pm-5am. As she got older, that time got earlier and eventually settled at 7pm around 6-7 months. We followed her lead initially and kept it consistent from that point as I was returning to work. It works well for us.

Following with interest. My baby is 7 weeks and from a week ago we start her bedtime routine at half 7- bath, in bed clothes and sleeping bag, feed, bedtime story (she's usually asleep by then) and put her in the next to me.
However I don't know if this is too early at this stage or if even having an impact?

Around 6 months (4 months corrected) we did bath at 530, bottle after then bed about 6pm for my twins then we would give them a bottle about 10pm and the rest of the night they would settle with dummies.

By 8 months (6 months corrected) it was 7pm and we had dropped the night bottles, so bath at 630, bottle then bed for 7pm in their own room.

we have always had a routine though because you kind of need it with twins! But I found bedtime started to fall into place by itself and then we just sort of firmed it up by doing a bedtime routine, they’re 11 months now (9m corrected) and have mostly slept through since about 8 months actual age (not every night, one will wake up for a dummy some nights!)

From around 8 weeks I started a routine of bath, milk and putting down in a dark, quiet room around 8pm. She sometimes went with it sometimes not 🙈😂

By 6 months she would be in bed by 7pm and usually slept through until 5am when she'd have another feed and go back to sleep till 7-8ish.

I was told to focus on wake-up time, not bedtime. We decided on 7am, and woke her up at 7am every morning, regardless of what happened at night. Worked a charm, she was sleeping from 5pm - 7am from probably 10 weeks old. (With a couple of dream feeds at 10pm and 2am, which she started to reject a few weeks later, and completely rejected from 6 months)

7pm bedtime from we got home from the hospital. They just got put down in a quiet darkish corner of the living room, then had a feed at 10ish before going up to bed with us. Bedtime was upstairs from 4 months.

First day home. Took him up at 7, Bath, story (yes even just a short made up one), feed, cuddle, then down, lights out I'm gone. Wait a little bit outside door to make sure he's settled then off downstairs I went (with baby monitor). It wasn't the recommendation then to have baby in with you, but I wouldn't change how I did things. My first baby slept well, my second baby needed a bit longer to get used to the routine, but repeat repeat repeat and at three months she too went down easily.