3 month old bedtime routine

[Chivari]

Hello! Just wondering what bedtime routines people have in place for their 3 month old?

• what time does your LO go to bed?
• how do you get them to sleep? I.e. do you nurse to sleep, do they have a dummy?

My daughter is 3mo and I have just started to try and get her down at 8pm. Sometimes she goes, but some nights she wakes again an hr or so later. I also currently nurse to sleep which I would like to try and move away from. Thanks!

Bump

I think we put him to bed about 9ish, ut we didnt actually get much of a routine in place until 5 months

This won't help much but my little one was still cluster feeding most of the evening at that age so we didn't have much of a routine for another couple of months. She's almost 8 months old now and goes to bed 7-7.30 most nights (was 6.30 one night this week as she was shattered). Just do what feels right and don't feel like you should force a routine if you and your little one are happy as you are at this age.

Ours had to go ‘to bed’ at 6-7pm from about 5 weeks old as she was struggling to sleep in the day and getting very overtired. This is still her bedtime, despite not being such a horrific napper now at 8 months, so I guess it’s her natural go to sleep slot.

We did bath (reflux baby), then bottle in a dark room with loud white noise and into crib. She used to fall asleep on the bottle, but that stopped at around 3 months and she gradually learnt to go off herself (self-taught, I couldn’t sleep train even now I don’t think!). Routine is similar now, except white noise and darkness don’t occur until after bottle, and she goes into her cot wide awake.

A three month old is downstairs anyway so I didn’t have a routine.

Sorry, to answer your other questions I feed to sleep (although DH can rock her if she's too full to feed) - in the last couple of weeks she has been able to go to bed drowsy and put herself to sleep sometimes. She's never taken a dummy (or a bottle - stubborn child!). We do bath-story-feed or just story-feed depending on the night.

Depends how tired/cluster feedy she is! For ages she was a 9pm girl, then a few weeks of 8pm. All this week it's been 7pm. Dictated by her not us.

Lights dimmed/curtains drawn in sitting room at 6pm, quietly kick around. Bath if not knackered and shouty. Go into dark bedroom with white noise, fresh nappy, sleepsuit and sleeping bag, story (same one every night), feed to sleep (me) or rock to sleep (DP) or, on bad nights, grimly marched up and down flat on shoulder, taken to the shower (she likes the noise), bounced, jiggled, cajoled...

She wakes up 2-hourly so we put her to bed in the bedroom and I go to bed then too; she gets overstimulated and is hard to get to sleep so there's no "quietly dozes in Moses basket while we have an evening together, then take her up to bed with us". One day I assume I'll see my DP again!

"Drowsy but awake" and self-settling are non-existent in this house and I assume will be for a loooong time.

Thank you all! Seems I should relax a bit and just go with the flow at the moment

@mrsed1987 @SquigglePigs @nomushrooms @MyDcAreMarvel @burritofan

Yes deffo! Im a bottle feeder so we got him to sleep with cuddles and gentle rocking. Now at 6 months we put him in the cot and hang around for a little while and he just goes to sleep himself!

That's really good fo know @mrsed1987 as at the moment I feel like I'm always going to be feeding her to sleep!