Bedtime for 15 week old

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My little girl is 15 weeks old and formula fed. She now naps well (is swaddled, dummy, has white noise) and sleeps 'through the night' - this is from when we all go to bed together at around 10.15pm. She has her daytime naps in her bedside crib & we have a video monitor. Present routine is roughly this:

0730 awake & feed
0800 Play on playmat, tummy time, get dressed
0915 nap in crib
11/1130 ish wake & feed
1130 play, dog walk, out and about etc
1500 feed
1515 nap
1745 ish wake up, play, watch me make dinner etc - just downstairs with us for evening - may nap for a while being cuddled
1900 - feed
2130 bath, massage
2200- feed
2215 asleep

I think now she needs to be going to bed earlier - shes starting to seem a bit irritated & tired downstairs of an evening. I was thinking of giving her her bath & massage after her 7pm feed, then putting her to bed, and giving her a dream type feed at 10pm when we would usually go to bed - how would I need to adjust her naps etc to do this? And what would I do about the swaddle when dream feeding and winding - do I unwrap it and change nappy etc?

Would appreciate any guidance - thanks!

I agree she sounds ready for an earlier bedtime. I think you could do with looking at awake times and adjusting these.

Typical awake times for 2-nap days are 234 (hours awake between 1st nap 2nd nap and bed). This assumes around 15 hours sleep in 24h.

If you look at your routine, the first and last awake times are not bad, but your middle awake time is very long. I would try some by-the-clock routine to get it established. So try:

7.30pm wake
9.30am nap
11.30am wake up if not already awake
2.30 nap
4.30 wake up if not already awake
8.30pm asleep (so bedtime routine may start at 7.30 or so)

Then yes, I'd give a dreamfeed when you go to bed.

That sounds great, I will try that from tomorrow!