My girl is 8 weeks and a pretty good sleeper(touch wood). We've gotten into a routine where we give her a bottle about 10.30 and she's asleep around an hour later, through to 6/7am. That has involved keeping day and night seperate for her, bright room, TV on, talking etc up until that last feed(mainly contact napping) then a dark room, crib, quiet except white noise for bedtime. We also find she sleeps much better if we put her down drowsy but awake.
The late bedtime worked for a while but for various reasons we'd like to bring it forward. We still plan to feed her about 10.30 but would like to put her in her next to me crib after the feed before.
My question for those already doing this is, do you just go to sleep early with your baby? Or do you use a monitor and stay downstairs until your bed time? Ideally we'd like to just watch TV in the room but concerned it would be too much of a distraction. She sleeps through it in the day but that's typically with us rocking her to sleep and we find when we've tried that at night she doesn't sleep for long once transferred to the crib.
Any tips or tricks would be very welcome! Thanks!