Bringing bedtime forward

[sharond101]

My DS is 13weeks and since 7weeks has slept through from 1030pm until 7/8am. He is nursed to sleep and only has short naps in the day. The last few nights he has gotten grumpy around 8/8.30am and wanted his bedtime feed early. I am wondering if he might want to sleep earlier and what consequences this will have on his total duration of sleep. I know some toddlers sleep 12hours or so and wonder how this pattern is established. Currently we try and keep him entertained between 7.30pm and bedtime so as to keep him awake hoping for him to sleep through the night as he does.

Just try putting him to bed at 7.30/ 8pm after a nice bath give him his feed and see what happens. We did this at 12 weeks I think( dd3 is nearly 5 months now) she woke up that night as usual 11pm for a quick feed and went straight back to sleep, I just kept her room fairly dark and quiet, not talking too much.

My dd is still feeding around 3am I am nursing too, but she sleep feeds and is back in bed within a few minutes- except last night due to a growth spurt week! She now doesn't wake at 11pm and just goes to bed roughly 8pm every night.

We get up between 6/7am. Dd is still up briefly for night feed.My dd2 slept through much earlier but i guess these babies are all different and do things as and when they are ready! Hope it works for you

I am not necessarily the best person to answer as have sleep problem
Ds but... Generally we find he sleeps better and longer with an earlier bed time. Try putting him down at 8:30 if that is when he seems tired. If he then wakes up hungry at 5am, you could try a 10:30 dream feed?

We were doing the same as you and keeping dd awake til we went to bed at around 10, resulting in a fractious baby and a baby-filled evening. Then at 9 weeks I thought I'd give a bedtime "routine" a go - just consisted of a bath at about 5:30, some quiet time and then lots of feeding til she was sleepy. She took to it really quickly and although it takes me a long time to get her off (about an hour and a half bedtime routine), we then has the evening to ourselves. She tends to wake when we go to bed and then in the night at approx 2 & 5, which is what she was doing before having an early bedtime, so in effect she's getting an extra 3 hours sleep a day, which an only be a good hung I reckon! Good luck!

Good thing!