Break the bedtime routine?

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I've been working on a bedtime routine with my 3mo. It has been going really well, she goes down easy & falls asleep at about the same time every night. She still wakes about every 3 hours to eat, which I understand is normal & we shouldn't start any sleep training until at least 4 months. My dilemma is that my SO coaches college football, and his games are on Saturday at 7PM. 
Should we go to the games and skip the routine, or should we skip the games? We could go and leave early, but her bedtime is 8:30, so it's almost pointless. The thought of us missing the games makes her dad and his family really sad, which I understand, it makes me sad too. However, I keep reading how important it is to start and stick to a routine.

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Keep the routine. I broke ours a few times here and there early on and it was a disaster. Took her forever to get to bed that night and was a total fusspot the whole next day. You can miss a season for the sake of your sanity.

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Why not just do a later bed time? Or just not have a routine. We took our kids everywhere with whatever time we wanted and they would just fall asleep at that age. We only started making a routine at one and a half and have had no problems what so ever. We still take them with us if we go out late but try to limit it to once every two weeks and never more that an hour later than normal except once in a blue moon. We find this still works ok. The real problem for us is if they have too much sleep during the day (the grandparents like to put them down for uneven dart naps) which screws things up completely to the point where we have to start again which is about two weeks work.

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I'd honestly skip the games till she's older and has a better sleep routine down.

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Personally I would try to start pushing bedtime back.

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I'm all for routines but I don't think it's good to overschedule. You want a kid that can adapt well if the schedule is messed up. I would definitely try going to the games.

Break the bedtime routine?

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