Baby bedtime

[Hann376]

struggling with when to put 11 week old baby to bed for the night. In the day she mostly contact naps and will sleep in crib at night which is normally around 9/10pm to 6/7/8am depending when she wakes up.

the past week we’ve been trying to do a bedtime routine with bath etc but struggling to know when to do it as the time varies so much depending on her nap times for the day which vary based on whether we’re our / at home etc. e.g sometimes she is due for a nap around 6 so are we supposed to wake her around 7/7:30 if she doesn’t wake up to do her final wake time and do bedtime routine then and put in the crib or do we try to squeeze in bedtime routine earlier and put her to bed way earlier at 6??

I don’t know what the best thing to do is as I feel bad waking her but also apparently bedtime should be around the same time each night if possible (give or take an hour or two!)

thanks :)

With my eldest we didn't have a proper bedtime until much much older, I think around 8 or 9 months because we just went with her cues and kept her downstairs with us (contact napping) until we were ready to go to bed. I do remember struggling to know when to do bath time so I just did it at some point in the evening when she was awake.

My daughter is six months and we've only just started an actual bed time routine with her. Before that we just rolled with the punches and put her down if she was sleepy. If she was awake then no big deal. We followed her curs more than anything else.

She settled herself into a loose napping and long night sleep routine around 12 weeks.

*cues

I wouldn't try to implement a bedtime routine just yet. Your baby is only 11 weeks, let her sleep when she wants.