baby 3.5 months cries before going to bed... every night

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my baby is 15 weeks old and he enjoys bath - and as soon we put the cloths on - the crying starts... for about 30-45 min. We do everything we can...and still crying. I wonder whether after bath he wants a bit of a play time before going to bed? or whether he just releasing tension and nothing will help?

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I suspect it is tiredness. Both mine did this as they know this is the cue to go to sleep and just wanted their milk and to get snoozing....

What nevercan said

What do you do when he's crying? If he's being cuddled and talked to softly while he lets out some tension and dozes off, I think that's normal and fine. Don't feel like you have to leave him to it or "teach" him at this age.

My dd went through a phase of crying before sleep at about 3.5 months. I think it is because she had suddenly realised there was a big exciting world out there and by the end of the day was a little overwhelmed by it all. I found just giving lots of cuddles and reassurance and she would pass out after a bit of a cry.

On the bath thing I also found that on the nights I gave her a bath before bed she was much more prone to meltdown (and I mean megga screaming fits for ages rather then just a bit of grumpy crying) so I stopped giving her baths in the evening and she now has her bath in the morning and goes to sleep much better. I suspect she just loves her baths a little too much and they get her all excited and over stimulated: great for starting the day but disaster for ending it :o

Probably tired - do the bath in the morning and start soothing him to sleep a little earlier in the evening.

Mine has done this every evening since we started a bedtime routine at 8 weeks. Now 25 weeks. I think she is just a bit tired and annoyed she has to go to bed tbh. We use a dummy and a 60 second rule. Cry for 60 seconds, comfort, repeat. Then sleep.

I went through to same thing with my DD - she grew out of it and we just put it down to tiredness :-)

I give him bath at 6 pm.. and then sleep at 7.00 pm - shall I put him to bed earlier?