When did you introduce a bedtime?

[Katekoom]

Our 4 week old naps downstairs and then comes to bed with us at 9:30-10:00. This has proven easier for breastfeeding but im now considering putting her to sleep upstairs earlier as she tends to go atleast 2 hours between feeds now (touch wood) and she has longer sleeps between 10pm and 10-11am so im wondering about pushing that morning sleep forward so that shes done with her long sleeps by say 8-9am.

When did you introduce a separate bedtime?

Not that early, probably about 5 months approx. It wasn't so much a bedtime as introducing darkness in the evenings gradually earlier and earlier, going upstairs in the quiet

About 6 weeks with DD2, she was a dream baby
Much much later with dd1. Cluster feeding until 9pm was the norm

Totally up to you, if he/she is naturally falling into a rhythm of go with it. Just don't be upset when it goes wibble on the growth spurt weeks

We did it with ebf DD at 7 weeks, but it didn't work that well as I was still having to go upstairs to feed her in the middle of the evening. So we ditched it and tried again at 9 weeks. This time it worked much better and after feeding her at 7 she'd lie in her bednest with the dummy, then fall asleep about 9, then I'd feed her at 11 (supposedly a dream feed but she'd have to be woken a bit to drink enough). We're now keeping her downstairs while we have dinner as the endless dummy runs were getting annoying, but she's still usually asleep by 8.30 or 9.
Like yours DD was going 2-3 hours between feeds and 4-5 hrs at night so we thought she was ready. Not long after we started bedtime she slept through the night for the first time, and continues to do so about half the time.

About 4 months but in hindsight could have done it sooner. DD used to feed all evening and crash about 10. At about 4 months I moved the bath to the evening at 6ish and started the bedtime routine from there. She would be down by 7. Also introduced a dummy at that stage, as the cluster feeding was becoming less about the milk than the comfort and a dummy helped her get some sleep instead of nursing desperately. I was amazed how quickly she took to the bedtime thing actually, was pretty much instant. She's still reliable about going down in the evenings. It's the night wakings that are a work in progress...

A bedtime of 7pm by 4 weeks with dd and around 6/8 weeks with ds.

About 3 months I think. Until then she cluster fed until around 11pm.

Around 8 weeks. By getting the bedtime settled it meant she was less cranky

I've just started doing bedtime with my 4.5 month old. Started at 6pm but found she was taking ages to go to sleep so now bath at 7pm, followed by bedtime story and final feed and bed. Fingers crossed it has been working well!

6 pm bath from 11 weeks old when he'd pushed it back to 7 pm bed in the week or so before hand. I followed his lead.

8 weeks. It felt like the right time and it really worked - was the best thing we ever did. Started a bedtime routine including bath at 6.30pm, bed at 7pm. Our baby has gone to sleep between 7pm and 7.30pm pretty much every night since 9 weeks and is now 5 months. Prior to this, our baby was screaming all evening and might be up as late as 1am.

6 weeks for both, so I'd do a feed at 6.30pm and then put them to bed. With DS I did a dream feed at 10pm but DD just used to get super grumpy at being woken, so with her I just let her sleep till she woke, which was usually about 5 seconds after I fell asleep!!

I think around 8 weeks with ds he started to fall asleep athe 7ish. It was really led by him but once he started that we put in bedtime routine around those timings.

With bedtime at 7, what time are/were your babies having their last feed? Did they sleep through? I'm having major issues with my nearly 10 week old deciding not to sleep. Yesterday he had two 20 minute naps and a 3hr sleep between 2 and 5 - not ideal I know. Big feed at 6.30, ready for bed at 7.30. He was then awake until 9.30, slept until 3.30. Up for a feed and now wide awake. I'm completely lost as to what to do.

Until recently we did a dream feed at 10.30pm, but ive dropped it now. Im lucky that DD is a good sleeper and regularly slept through till 5 - 6 am.

At about 9 weeks we started by just getting him changed for bed by 7 then trying to put him down for a bit. It worked really well although had to bring his bedtime forward to 6 as he was tired. It got him into a routine and by 10 weeks he was sleeping through. Made such a difference to our lives as it sort of naturally got him in a routine for the whole day. It also gave us an evening which made such a massive difference to us as gave us time as couple. Those few hours "off" in the evening meant I could deal with whatever happened in the day even if it had been a really hard one.

chillychicken at 10 weeks mine were doing the longest stretch at 7 to maybe 11, sometimes 12/1. My dd would then feed and then sometimes go to the morning (6ish). With ds it was more like 7-11 then up every few hours till morning, so feed at 1,3, often up at 5.30/6. He has only just got better at sleeping (for now) at 5 months. Dd started sleeping through at 4 months 7-7 then had s major sleep regression for s month then went back to sleeping through (except when teething). They seem to change patterns all the time these babies!

chilly at 10 weeks DD was feeding at 7, then around 9, then 11, 2 and 5ish then probably up for the day!

She still doesn't sleep through at 15 months though so our routine is definitely not one to aspire to

Somewhere between 4 and 5 months. DD (11mo) was getting upset with being downstairs until we went to bed (about 10) as she was so tired and couldn't sleep properly with the TV on or whatever, so we started taking her up for about 7:30. Everybody has benefited as she gets at least one chunk of good sleep and we get to eat dinner and relax a bit before bed, unless she's in one of her waking up every 45mins phases... Thankfully a bit rarer now! Still can't settle herself and still wakes up in the night but at least I've got my evenings with DH back