11 week old starting routine

[Lloydy88]

Hi all, just wondered what time your 11 week olds went to bed?
Currently it's 8ish but want to start to get her down by half7. Anyone else have a routine at this age? We did with our first but he slept through like a dream. This little gal does up to 4 1/2hours stretch at the moment and wakes, we then co-sleep and she wakes every 2/3hours for boob. She's bottle fed in the day though.
Any advice welcome? :)

It's usual at this age to do "bedtime routine" at any awake time that happens between 6pm-8pm. By bedtime routine I mean things like bath, massage, into night clothes, feed, song/story etc. But obviously "going to bed" actually means having a sleep downstairs, as with the rest of daytime naps. That's unless you're going to bed yourself. For safe sleep, you should always be in the same room as baby for all sleeps until 6 months old.

In terms of timings, a flexible window of time is needed because of the flexible nature of daytime naps. Exact bedtime depends when and for how long she has napped during the day.

It's pretty normal for the first part of a baby's night sleep to be the longest stretch. This is when the 'sleep pressure' is at its highest. It's at its weakest after 4am. I start bed time for my 14 week old at 6pm and it takes 1.5hrs - to ensure his wake window is long enough before bed. We bath, massage, BF to sleep, burp, swaddle, white noise in his co sleeper. I go to bed then too as I follow the safe sleep 6 month guidance - I'm usually shatterd any way but if not I read my book next to him. He wakes at 12am/3am/5am....thereafter it's a battle to get more than an hour more out of him!