2.5 week old?!

[Tiredmama98]

At what age did everybody start introducing a nighttime routine in to their LO?

LG is 2.5 weeks old and I'm aware she'll has no concept of getting into any kind of routine yet. At the moment I try and bath her, give her a bottle, let her fal asleep on me then move her into the next to me.

However, she absolutely HATES the bath and getting changed so that itself seems to get her all worked up to the point she's wide awake after her feed.

Any advice??

If having a bath wakes her up i would remove that from a bedtime routine. Bath was never part of my dcs bedtime routine. Bathing every day is bad for skin anyway.
Have you tried baby massage?

At 2.5 weeks just let the baby sleep when it wants. Also agree you don’t need to bath the baby daily.

I moved my son’s bath to earlier in the evening because it would wale him up top. He’s now 9 weeks old and it’s only in the last 2 weeks or so that any kind of routine has started to emerge. In the early weeks we just followed his lead on everything.

The main routine for this age is getting plenty of daylight in the morning and plenty of dark, quiet in evening. Yo promote day time and night time. Everything else will follow

@WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo I’d love to do baby massage but she screams and cries until she’s got her clothes back on ☹️

Wrap your little one in a large muslin cloth before putting her in the bath. It's a game changer. My boy would scream the house down for every bath until we did this. I started baby massage around 6 weeks and he gradually began to enjoy it. It's great for building eye contact and learning what they like

@Ajahd I’ll give that a go! Thank you