What time does/did your 16 week olds go to bed?

[Liloosmum]

Just wondered what time your 16 week olds go to bed and get up! My DD is currently going to bed about 8.30, but seems to be ready to go to bed earlier. She usually sleeps until about 7ish with a couple of feeds during the night (times vary!)

AT that age, half 6/7ish. We used to put DS to bed later but didn't work. Early bedtime worked wonders.

agree with igglybuff.

Mine (16 weeks on Sunday) goes to up to bedroom about 8.30 pm - asleep by 8.45 ish...she wakes up twice for feeds and is up about 8 am. Not too bad but would love a longer stretch of sleep before the usual 12.30/ 1 am feed! I would put her down earlier but she doesnt seem ready/ sleepy at all...

Mine is in bed around 6 pm and usually asleep by 6:30 (some nights later as she tends to get very over tired as reluctant to nap during the day but that's a whole 'nother story) with bedtime proceedings starting at around 5:15 pm (bottle, story, bath, cuddle, bed) and sleeps through to around 7 am (woken up then if not awake) with a sleepy feed at 10:30.

How do you all get you DC's to go to sleep? My DS wont go to sleep without being fed/talked to sleep any earlier than 9.30pm.

After 9.30 he goes out like a light and lov nor money can wake him. He's only 10 weeks so I might be expecting too much.

At 10 weeks my daughter was up til 11.30/ 12 so I reckon 9.30 is pretty good! She was still in the middle of the evening grizzles at that point...

My DS is 19 weeks and goes to bed between 6-7pm.Sometimes I don't bother with a bath as he's too tired and grumpy!

He has always slept well in the evenings for some reason.Wheras DD cried all evening for the first four months.

He was sleeping through til 5/6/7 with a dreamfeed but has been waking up for the last couple of weeks,I think it's teething?!I never feed him in the night though as he's not that interested in his morning bottle as it is.

We are formula feeding now by the way.

how do you get DCs to go to sleep at half 6? if bf do you give them really long feeds? my 15 week old doesnt sleep before 10am, and i feed for nearly 2 hours in the evening.....help me! he does sleep 6-7 hours straight through most of the time, but sometimes wakes up early...

6 week old DS (ff) goes down in own bed after bath, bottle, cuddle by 7pm. Feeds at 10.30pm and 2.30am and up at 6.30am.

Have persued bedtime routine from day 1 home from the hospital and think it's made a difference as DS already associates his nursery with sleep.

MIL says keep DS up and awake til 10.30pm feed and that will make him drop the 2.30am feed (she has 5 DCs'- DH, DD and then triplet DSs so she should know!!!) but I'm opposed as DS is already screaming from being overtired at 6.30pm! Don't fancy prolonging that until late eve!

DD is formula fed and has slept through (with sleepy feed around 10:30) from around 8 weeks. I don't think we do anything out of the ordinary . A HV did suggest that it was helped by feeding really well during the day but feeding every 3 hours at that age is pretty normal I think- now every 3.5 - 4 hours.

We do have some fun and games with overtiredness as she does not like to sleep during the day but that is getting better.

We do let her have a little cry to wind down which she seems to need for some reason - just rub her back until she calms down or silently pick her up and cuddle her until she calms down if it starts increasing. We have also learned to leave her to it when she is only grumbling and not disturb her unless she starts crying as the grumbles often get fewer and fewer until she's asleep.

Also liberal use of white noise really helps.