How to move babys bedtime earlier

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You have all been super helpful with advice before so looking for some tips.

My little boy is three months, i use huckleberry to track wake windows and nap times. It works great.

However when it gets to bedtime usually 7/8pm i find it doesn’t work. He usually will konk out about 11/11.30pm.

After his last nap he will be cranky and usually awake from 7pm to his chosen 11pm bedtime. The late bedtime is killing me but if i try to put back to sleep after the 7pm mark he seems to treat them as like cat naps rather than going down for the night. Or he will spend those hours being cranky as he is tired Lol.

He is fab during the night, wakes up for two feeds but goes straight back down.

Thanks. One tired Momma!

Mine was the same at that age. Drove myself crazy as Instagram kept telling me he should go down at 7/8pm. Any sleep before 10 pm he treated like a nap and be awake for 1.5 hours afterwards.

Truth is it took another month. I chilled out, accepted the late bedtime and a cranky baby, and a month later he started putting himself to sleep around 7.30pm.

You probably need to wait until he’s old enough to give up the last nap and can do a longer awake stretch in the afternoon. I cracked it at 4 months old with both of mine when I could keep them up from 3pm until bed at 7.

My DD was the same....she spent most evenings downstairs with us as a baby because she would have a short nap at 'bedtime' then be up soon after wide awake wanting to play and not go down til when we went to bed.We had then 4yo DD trying to settle up there who had school next day so had to bring her down (although that had its own issues as then 4yo felt resentful that baby was allowed to stay downstairs with us playing 🤦‍♀️)
No advice, but just offering empathy as know its really hard not having an evening to relax when they're up most of it 😩

He may just be a bit too young at 3 months. He only just come out of newborn phase, often they don’t get into a better routine until 4 or 5 months. 11 doesn’t sound too bad if he’s going down ok at that time and only waking up twice in the night, I’d go with it until a bit older.

Thanks everyone! I think I will just go with his flow as i guess he could be so much worse during the night! I have a 2 year old LG hence the tiredness Lol.

But there only this small once right!