4 month old sleep

[FernGully43]

Hi everyone,

What time are your 4 month olds going down for night time sleep? And where?

DS2 is 3 and a half months old, and he goes to dad all dressed and ready for bed at 6:45pm so I can put down the toddler, who drifts off sometime between 7-7:30pm. Whenever I come back through, dad has gotten ds2 off to sleep and then we'd just sit together on sofa while ds2 slept in one of our laps and then I'd take him off to bed around 10:30/11pm.

The problem is, the last few weeks, ds2 has now been treating this as another nap. He'll sleep one or two cycles 7:15-8/8:45ish then be up for another few hours and eventually go to sleep at 10/11pm at which point I just go to bed too.

I'm wondering if I need to maybe start just going to bed at 7:30 and maybe it'll help his sleep? Tbh I don't notice a difference in night sleep whether he goes at 7 or 11. He's never had long stretches but I think we're in a bad sleep phase right now (early 4 month regression maybe). Or is it ok to just keep going with the flow?

Thanks all

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Hey OP my little one will be 4 months old at the end of this month.
We have the exact same routine. For example he just slept in my arms downstairs on the sofa from 8.30ish until 10pm, had his milk at 10.30pm and then I took him up to bed with me at 11pm. He's now fast asleep.

I have tried to do an earlier bedtime but it just wasn't happening so have accepted to just go with it for now as I know bedtimes will get earlier with time!

@FebMama thank you! I think acceptance is the best way to go in these situations 😅
It's good to know others do the same as me. My first would scream blue murder unless he was in bed, lights off every evening at 6pm. So I got used to eating dinner in bed then watching telly until I fell asleep at 9ish. Very different this time round!

Hiya, we do exactly the same too, he generally falls asleep downstairs around 8.30 and then we take him upstairs for milk and sleep at 10ish. Until he can be in his room with a monitor I guess we will have to carry on like this!