After attending a local baby massage course I thought I would give puttingvthe 'proper' bed time routine in place for my 10 week old. Up until now, we had a sort of routine where his bed time feed was 7pm but then kept him in his Moses basket downstairs with us, he would fall asleep on dad about 8pm and I would go to bed at 9 and take him up with me.
Our first attempt at a proper bed time routine has looked like this,
6.30 - Took LO upstairs into quiet environment, baby soothing music playing.
massage and changed for bed.
(Will include bath when bath night).
7pm - feed and burped
Followed by bed time story
7.30 - bed
He went straight down.
It was nice having a couple of hours to self, but I kept listening to the monitor to make sure he was still breathing and checking on him every two minutes.
So far, so good.
Fingers crossed.