Advice on routine please - again!

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Our 3 month old generally does not to to bed until around 11ish and I'm just wondering if this is normal? I hear so many others saying they put their little one down at 7pm and they sleep until their last feed at 11/12, and I'm somewhat jealous!

Should we be trying harder to get baby to go to sleep earlier. He is not a great sleeper during the day and at night he will generally go from 11/12 until 4/5ish. He then sleeps until 6/7 and following that feed he will go back to sleep. This morning for example he slept until almost 10! Should I try to get him up after the 6/7am feed?

So, bit long winded but, are there others out there who's little one does not go down at what I would call 'bedtime?' Furthermore, is there anything I could be doing to encourage him to go to bed earlier? (Out of interest, we have spent many a night trying to put him to bed when he clearly wasn't ready and so figure he might as well be downstairs with us!)
Finally, is there generally an age when babies start to sleep better? (Is it obvious I haven't bought or read any parenting books??)

Thanks in advance for those who reply.

I know how you are feeling. My DS is now 2.5 but was the same,friends babies went down and slept (and they ate dinner without juggling a baby!) mine up until 10pm. My DS didn't develop a routine like yours until 4 months so think he is doing well. I did then try to bring bedtime forward by 15 minutes. Once that was working I kept reducing by 15 minutes. Now (and for a long time not sure when we finally got there!) we get him ready for bed at 7pm, in bed 7.15 to 7.30 and thats him gone until 7am - 8 am the following morning. It will get better and he is doing great really.

I think if he's your first (and therefore you're not having to get up with other children) I'd count your blessings and make the most of the sleep!

If it's really bothering you though, you could try what Littone suggests and bring everything forward by 15 mins every few days. Be aware though that anything you do may destroy the big chunk of sleep you currently get!

Saying all that, I personally would probably be trying to bring his bedtime forward a bit by 3 months - I was really craving some downtime from parenting by the time DS was that age (it was about that time his colic began to wear off and we were able to at least attempt to put him down at a sensible time)

No advice but my dd is nearly 6 months and went through a brief and joyful phase of going down about 8ish, but has now decided that is boring and is currently playing with dh in the living room (she is second child and neither of us can face pacing up and down darkened room trying not to wake ds). So you are not the only one!

My baby is 10 weeks old, but she was 2 weeks overdue, and she behaves older for her age! XD anyway, she is the same, she would stay up with us until 11pm, sleep by 11.30-12.00 wake up at 6-7, eat maybe a bit of what we call "dummy game" where she is awake and we keep putting her dummy so she stays nice and calm, and she then would go bak to sleep until 10 or 11! So I thought, if we can do 11 to 11, why not try 9 to 9? well, what a disaster! she woke up 3 times last night, her feedng times are all messed now and she has been sleep most of the day! So I don't know when to put her to bed today, 11?, 9?... 10????
Asmuch as I love it, it is really hard work!