When will he change to earlier bedtime? And how?!

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At the moment my 10 week old will have a bath early eve, might dose, then has big feed around 9.30pm (am mainly bf but with one ff at this time), and then takes till 10.30-11pm to get down to sleep, usually after a feef to sleep on me.

I know at some point he should be sleeping in evening, going down from 7ish. But don't know when this should be or what to do to help it happen...

Any suggestions?

Both mine shifted at around 4 months, and I didn't do anything to encourage it really. It just happens, promise!

At 12w I decided to force the issue with DS. I got him up at 7am & the end of the day then slotted into place.

DD is 12 weeks now and we keep asking each other the same question!! What we have noticed is of we go to bed at 8 (DVD in bed) she will go off to sleep at 8 and if we go to bed at 10 she will go to sleep then. But if we put the Moses basket in the living room she is wide awake!

My DD also shifted naturally to earlier bedtimes - at 3mos it was about 10pm, by 5mos it was about 8pm. Around the same time, she went from 4 naps a day to 3 - in fact, that 4th nap kind of merged into her night time sleep, and that's what made the difference. The only thing I did was to try and go with that, eg. putting her in her PJs/grobag before the 4th nap, and when she whimpered after 'nap time' I'd see if I could soothe her back to sleep. Trial and error though! And only when I sensed she was really ready, not forcing it ahead of time. Don't worry, you're not doing anything wrong - it will happen.

Agree with tigresswoods - my DS is 14 weeks and goes to sleep at 7.30 pm and wakes at 7 am, we got into that routine by starting the day at 7am (even if DS had been up a lot in the night) and the bedtime then just fell into place. My DS wouldn't sleep in moses basket in the lounge with us making noise etc so he always goes upstairs at 7.30 pm.

Agree with tigresswoods - my DS is 14 weeks and goes to sleep at 7.30 pm and wakes at 7 am, we got into that routine by starting the day at 7am (even if DS had been up a lot in the night) and the bedtime then just fell into place. My DS wouldn't sleep in moses basket in the lounge with us making noise etc so he always goes upstairs at 7.30 pm.

6 months when we put him in his own room and really pushed the evening routine. Still wakes at least once or twice through the evening though at 9 months

About 4 months ds started insisting on getting up at 7am and that led to a 7pm bedtime. Before that I was trying to get him to go 9-9pm (I like a lie in). It will all fall into place naturally enough.