What time is your LO's bed time

[toadandbuggie]

Lurking babies 3-6mo and wondering what time you put your LO to bed.

At 12 weeks my LO seems to be having a turning point in bed time - as in, he gets real fussy and I think it would be beneficial to put him to bed earlier. Right now, it's about 9pm.

Is it normal for babies to start needing earlier bed times? I would love putting him to sleep at 7 or so and then getting some more time with H.

[osumegs]

9 weeks today. 8:30, but if she fights us on sleep it's more like 9-930. I think she's a bit overtired by then, so we're going to try to move it to 7:30 over next week. First time mom, though, so no clue what we're doing!

[miniwheat]

DS (10 weeks) has his last feeding at 7 and has a bath right after and usually falls asleep for his longest stretch at 730.

[toadandbuggie]

Apr 17, 2015 7:47:15 GMT -5 osumegs said:

9 weeks today. 8:30, but if she fights us on sleep it's more like 9-930. I think she's a bit overtired by then, so we're going to try to move it to 7:30 over next week. First time mom, though, so no clue what we're doing!

I also am a FTM and have no clue what I'm doing. I am finally realizing when DS is fussing that he is actually *tired* and I need to put him down to nap - he won't just go to sleep on his own anymore.

[lulu783]

Apr 17, 2015 7:48:56 GMT -5 miniwheat said:

DS (10 weeks) has his last feeding at 7 and has a bath right after and usually falls asleep for his longest stretch at 730.

Yep, this is about where we are with DD (9 weeks). Sometimes she will fall asleep right after, sometimes it takes an hour or so.

[misshart00]

DS is 10 weeks. He usually goes down at about 8 or 8:30.

[firelizard8367]

He is 11 weeks, and we have been putting him to bed at 8 since we got home. He usually wakes up again at 10 or 11 for a feed and a fussy time, but then he is out for the night!

[wimcgrath]

Apr 17, 2015 9:11:55 GMT -5 @nolagal said:

Apr 17, 2015 7:58:41 GMT -5 @nolagal said:

We aim for 9 or 9:30 and.then I go to bed right after. I'll gradually move it up, probably once I'm headed back to work. LO is 8 weeks.

a couple weeks ago her bedtime was 11ish, so we're already moving it up. Later bedtime between 9-11pm are pretty common for babies up to 3 or 4 months. After that point, it's important to start moving up the bedtime. Just my 0.02 if you're worried!

Thanks for the info- I was wondering about this. Currently, DD's bedtime is anywhere from 9-10, and we go to bed right after. I've been telling DH that we'll need to move it up before too long!

I think if we already had a toddler that DD would be going to bed earlier from the get go, so as not to disrupt the routine, but as first time parents we've tried to adapt her to our routine a bit.

[lilyelayne]

DS is 6 weeks. He has his last feeding between 9 & 10 and is usually in bed by 1030. Most nights he sleeps until 4, eats and goes back to sleep until 7 or 8. I should probably start moving it back but I love not getting up at 2 or 3 am...

[babycfeb2015]

Apr 17, 2015 9:49:57 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

DS is 6 weeks. He has his last feeding between 9 & 10 and is usually in bed by 1030. Most nights he sleeps until 4, eats and goes back to sleep until 7 or 8. I should probably start moving it back but I love not getting up at 2 or 3 am...

This is our schedule exactly. If we try to put him to bed at 8 he fights it and is up forever. We let him nap from 7-8 do last feeding around 9/930 then put him to bed around 10. Last night I tried to put him down at 9 and he was up until midnight when I fed him again then he slept til 6. Ive read that once they can sleep 10-6 straight then you can start moving bedtime up so thats my plan

[dramacat]

LO is 9 weeks today. He goes to bed around 10-ish. I tried to move it up but he started waking up every 2-3 hours overnight (he only gives us one long stretch). Is this normal? Or will he start giving us a longer second stretch?

[junebugjam]

I aim for anywhere between 8:30 and 9:30. Sometimes it takes him awhile to fall asleep or he's had a late nap and it's closer to 10/10:30.

ETA: He's 8.5 weeks

[misshart00]

The toddler goes to bed at 7:30. Or 7 if she's been cranky or had a bad nap.

[mommadozer]

9ish on a good night. If I try earlier, he doesn't fall asleep and fusses a bit.

[dacora]

DD goes to bed between 9:30 and 10:30 depending on when she wants her last bottle. She eats and then we put her down for the night. We tried to put her down after an 8pm bottle and she would have none of it, she still wanted to hang out with us and didn't want to sleep.

[junebugjam]

Apr 17, 2015 10:03:40 GMT -5 dramacat said:

LO is 9 weeks today. He goes to bed around 10-ish. I tried to move it up but he started waking up every 2-3 hours overnight (he only gives us one long stretch). Is this normal? Or will he start giving us a longer second stretch?

Mine only goes one long stretch also. Occasionally I'll get a second stretch around 2.5 hours but it's rare. After the long stretch he seems to average 60-90 minutes between wake ups.

[mamabisme]

DS goes to bed between 9-10. He wakes up to eat at 2am, like clockwork. Then, back to sleep until 6-7.

My older DDs are in bed by 8 at the latest. I'd love to get DS to bed a little earlier eventually but I'm not too worried about it right now. He's only 7 weeks and giving me good sleep so I wont rock the boat. We'll start to work on an earlier bedtime in a few weeks.

[cloe111479]

Dd gets a bath sometime between 8:30-9. Then bottle after. She usually falls asleep right about 9:30 and she's in bed not long after. She then lasts until about 5 am. (Which works for us on weekdays). She usually can take a bottle then and fall back to sleep until 7:30/8 on weekends. She's 9 wks.

I'm sure in the next month or so she may start going to bed a little earlier but for now this works.

[greenpony33]

LO is 9 wks and Bed time is normally between 10:30 and 11:30. I've tried to get him to go to bed before that, between 9/10 but then we end up spending time in his room with dim light until at least 11. I've been trying to pay attention to when he wants to take a nap anytime after 8 p.m., and trying to make that bed time I think I just have to be more consistent with it. For you to use a bath as part of bedtime routine, are you bathing every night? we're doing bath about every 2 to 3 days, but I noticed the other day after his bath he was down at 945 and slept until 2 but it has not happened since. I'm wondering if it's related to his bath

[ace226]

He's 5 weeks and he's usually up from 7-1030 most nights and has his longest stretch from 1030 to 230-3. I guess I have kind of a night owl on my hands!

[mels823]

LO is 13 weeks right now. She tends to nap from 7 to 8 and then we give her a bottle and read to her at 9 for a 930 bedtime. Sometimes it's a little closer to 9. She gets super fussy so I'm thinking we could maybe put her down earlier. She wakes up anytime between 6 and 7 in the morning, so i'm nervous if we put her down earlier she'll start getting up at 5.

[missys]

Apr 17, 2015 7:53:57 GMT -5 lulu783 said:

Apr 17, 2015 7:48:56 GMT -5 miniwheat said:

DS (10 weeks) has his last feeding at 7 and has a bath right after and usually falls asleep for his longest stretch at 730.

Yep, this is about where we are with DD (9 weeks). Sometimes she will fall asleep right after, sometimes it takes an hour or so.

This is us too but LO is 8 weeks. Honestly, he's been putting himself to bed this early (not falling asleep by himself but he gets very tired and we need to put him down then or we have a cranky baby) so we have it lucky? I have to get up at 445 starting Monday when I go back to work so when he's been getting up at 6am to eat it will actually work out perfectly, but not because we planned it this way!

[maryxc1]

DD goes to bed between 8:30-9:00 because that is what time we put DS down so we get them both ready at the same time.

[jensoprano82]

We're trying to establish 10:00 to about 7:30 with a dream feed at 1:00am. My husband works very late most nights and an early bedtime simply isn't practical for any of us. Eventually I would like 10-8

[michelle142]

Dd is 8 weeks. She goes to bed between 8 and 9.

If I remember correctly from DS- by 12 weeks, he was going to bed by 730 and its been that way ever since.

[mands1125]

I start at 9 but it can take hours to settle her at times :/

[mamabutt2]

9 pm at 10 weeks here. Except for tonight. Little one's been crabby all evening and doesn't want to sleep even though I know he's tired :/

[seamonster]

LO will be 9 weeks tomorrow. We feed a bottle after fussy nursing between 630 and 730 depending on when he wants to eat. Bath time is around 8. We just do a water bath and on the nights we've tried to skip it, LO has been super fussy and we ended up doing it anyway. Cuddle and read and nurse a bit more with baby falling asleep between 9 and 1030. Some nights are better than others. Sleeps about 4.5 to 5 hours. Eats around 2 to 3, wakes up about 5 to eat and then goes down until 7. Ideally I'd like that last wake up to be 6 so I can nurse before we need to leave for work and we need to be out of the house at 7

[seamonster]

I've got 5 weeks until I go back so it may work itself out that he eats closer to time to leave and then sleeps on the way to daycare.

[Mom2Ms]

Wow. DS doesn't go to sleep until like 11. He's only 6 weeks though. He goes to bed that late because if it's any earlier, he's up off & on all night. Last night he fell asleep at 9:30. Then was awake from 1-2. Then 4-445, then again at 6:15. It's brital. If I get him down at 11, if I'm lucky, he may not wake until 430/500....