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Moving bedtime earlier

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Desperatelytrying123 · 04/06/2021 09:06

My 11 week old baby has generally slept well for about 6 weeks. By that I mean she will do a 5 hour stretch without needing a feed every night. So wt the moment we are in the routine of her last feed at 10pm and she goes down about 11pm. However some night it varies where she is asleep at 10.30, 11, 11.30, 12. She wakes up around 5-6ish for a feed and then goes back down for 2-3 hours.

I would like her to be going to sleep earlier than 11 now. How do I do this. I have tried putting her last reed earlier by 15 mins but that doesn’t make her sleep any earlier. It just means there is a longer stretch between last feed and when she goes to sleep.

Also she goes to sleep on me and when she is asleep I transfer her to the next to me crib.

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Twizbe · 04/06/2021 09:07

Time. Baby sleep is anything but consistent. A feed at 10 and then at 5 is very good for 11 weeks.

Are you doing the feed in bed with you? I used to do that (breastfeeding) and then me and baby would go to sleep straight after.

Desperatelytrying123 · 04/06/2021 09:17

@Twizbe yes I am doing the feed in bed.

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FATEdestiny · 04/06/2021 20:04

This development comes from the development of daytime nap schedules as baby matures.

For example you may have daytime of (for example) cycles of 90 minutes awake and 45 minutes sleep throughout the daytime. All you need to is join together the last nap with night time sleep, so have no awake time between - just wake, feed, back yo sleep.

Desperatelytrying123 · 05/06/2021 06:41

@FATEdestiny thank you - good advice

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