Bring bed time forward from 9pm to 7pm 5.5month old) as simple as dropping a nap?

[Jellybabie3]

So as title says...

Going to start weaning next week and bring DS bedtime from 9pm to 7ish so we can finally have some mum and dad time. He currently has a late 4th nap and goes to sleep 9-9.30pm. He gets quite hyper after this nap and bath so may be getting overtired. Hes a terrible sleeper waking ever 1hr 45ish for feeds (ebf 22min long every time). He will consequently be staying in our room.

Is it as simple as dropping this nap?

It’s still very young for such an early bedtime imo. Mine used to nap at 7 around that age, I could put her in bed but she’d wake up and and be wide awake after a while. Mum and Dad time will come though for us it was around 7 months.

Ah OK. Might be too much weaning and mucking about with bedtime anyway. And maybe i should sort the naps first....I'm still a pillow. Crafty little man

I would say the opposite. You say night times are bad so what have you got to lose by trying, it may be the answer?
My dd has had a 7/7.30 bedtime since about 6-8 weeks. It all depends on awake time since last nap, but it’s around then. As I said in previous threads, the number of naps a day wildly vary as some last 20 mins, some last 1.5 hours.
It means me and OH have an evening together alone before I dream feed at 10.30pm, and then what happens from then on totally varies. Used to be good, now varies from a bit crap to a lot crap - regression related.
Bedtime has only ever gone wrong once (i.e she wouldn’t go down and we had to give up and bring her downstairs cos we had company and couldnt be absent all night).
Sometimes she really cries and takes a lot of settling - maybe half an hour. Sometimes she goes down like a total dream.
I think you should try a ‘normal’ childlike bedtime and see if that impacts everything else.

What time is the 4th nap? My D'S was having a late nap but found that putting him to bed instead at this time made him sleep better. He goes down 6/6.30.

Still don't have mum and dad time though as going through a regression so go to bed at the same time to get sleep 😴

I am with @123456kent . If the baby's third nap finishes at around 4.45-5pm, it makes sense to bring the bedtime forward. Even when babies are bad sleepers, their first stretch of night sleep is often the best so you may find that you may be able to get 3-4 hours of mummy/daddy's time (of course, nothing is guaranteed but chances are higher).

At 5.5months, DD used to go to bed at 6.30/6.45pm and sleep until 6.30/7am with one dream feed (at 10.30pm).

My dd naturally brought her bedtime forward to 7.30-8pm from 9-10 at around 9 months. So try the above suggestions but don't worry if it doesn't work, he will probably do it himself anyway
I haven't found it has made any difference to her night wakings, she's 10m now and still wakes every hour some nights. It has been better the past couple of weeks though (really hope it stays that way!)

Yeah his 3rd nap usually ends at 4pm ish. But varies abit. Today his 3rd ended at 3pm as he had a bad nap at lunch. I may give it a go over easter while dads home and see but if no good continue as is. Just feel like we can now hes pretty much 6months (SIDS) Thanks!

So if that was us and mine woke up at 3pm I would force her to sleep at 5pm (do everything I can to get her to sleep, dummy while bouncing on a bouncy ball is what I resort to when I’m getting nowhere!). Say half an hour nap, and then bed at 7.30pm. That would be perfect for pur household.
Some books say no naps past 5pm but my baby can’t go for that long being awake without becoming hysterical!

5.5 month old here also. Naps are usually 45 min unless we get lucky with a longer one, so she has 3 or 4 naps a day. Bedtime is around 6.30-7 and most of my friends with similarly aged babies have them in bed by 8pm at latest, so I definitely don’t think it’s too early at alI. Worth a try anyway!

I try and do no longer than 2 hours from the end of the last nap. Usually our routine is 4.30-5 last nap and then bed around 6.30/6.45. If the nap ended at 4 I’d probably just put her to bed at 6, but my toddler currently goes to bed pretty early as he’s dropping his nap so bedtime is early in our house. If the nap ended at 3 then that’s usually still ok for a 4.30 nap and as long as she doesn’t sleep past 5.30 she’s fine for bedtime in the 7pm range.

You just get a routine set in your head and it all changes! I also remember weaning seemed to change it a lot with my DS and from 6 months he finally started taking some decent naps and we had a good routine going

Lovely thanks. Will give it a go. Despite all my moaning I will kind of miss coming to bed with DS. Aww. Until i realise I can do stuff (he sleeps on me for naps so I am pretty grounded!!)

How many nights do you think i should try before deciding if it works? Just thinking if he only needs a few hours sleep he may start waking earlier??

His naps also need sorting as he naps on me but I may try that a few weeks time. I have a holiday in June so need it resolved by then!!

My DS set himself a 7pm bedtime at around ten months. He gradually came back from 9 to 8 then 7. I went back to work around this time so he needed a consistent routine. Ever since he’s asleep by half seven at the latest and gets ratty if he isn’t put to bed!

I think you just keep going and dont give up! Even if it doesnt work at first. He might surprise you and sleep longer as he’s going to bed earlier. Sleep breeds sleep. Maybe he’s overtired.

Another one here who did it naturally, he was around 6months. Was desperate to be asleep by about 6.30/7 and could no longer tolerate snoozing downstairs with us. Started just getting really cross and couldn't settle whereas he used to sleep through anything. It was a bit wierd how he just changed!

How many nights do you think i should try before deciding if it works?

Generally it takes people (both adults and babies) at least three days to adjust to new routines and time zones. Sometimes it may get worse before it gets better.

Whenever I try to tweak DD routine, I always make sure I do it consistently for 3 days. If I see no results on day 4, I try something different.

Well yesterday DS had rubbish naps (up at 7am a 40min nap, 2short 20min naps then 1 1hr 30min) as the last nap ended at 5 we tried putting DS down for 8. He went down ok and lasted 1hr 30. I fed him as a 'dream feed' and went to bed....he woke 8 times!! He fed everytime, sometimes 30min since last...sometimes lasting half hour, sometimes a 5min gulp. He got up at 7.30am this morn. I am hoping this was just bad timing and we hit a growth spurt! Better luck tonight!

Will try for a week so fx!