Bedtime routines?

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What are your bedtime routines at this point? I could use some new ideas. 
I used to breastfeed him to sleep until about 1-2 months ago and then shortly before Christmas managed to stop and he was starting to fall asleep pretty independently in his crib. He would just crawl a bit and I would turn him to his back a few times and after a while he would tire and fall asleep. Then came the holidays with extended family visiting and then a trip with jet lag both ways... We’ve now gone from this positive place to having to walk around with him for ages and now even that is failing and I’ve fallen back to breastfeeding to sleep again. And even that isn’t so effective anymore. He just can’t seem to relax enough to drift off to sleep. Any suggestions for what to try would be helpful 🙏

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Bedtime is a huge struggle for us right now. I nurse her to sleep around 7 and she keeps waking up 2-3 hours later ready to be awake till midnight. It’s driving me crazy 😭

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Usually bottle than he lays with me on the couch till he’s asleep than into his crib. Sleeps 7:30pm to 7am no wake ups for past 3 months.

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We started this routine at like 3 months but it works pretty well:
If its bath night, we do a bath then start this routine minus the face wipe.
Change into night diaper. 
Change all clothes and into pjs
Dad gives a 6 oz bottle while I dim his lights, turn on the humidifier, turn on the white noise machine.
When he is finished dad puts him in the nest sleep sack.
Usually this is when I do the warm face cloth and wipe his face be we cut that out since it was amping him up.
The three of us cuddle and dad and I rotate nights reading his bedtime book.
Dad leaves while I turn out the light stand up and tell him a list of people who love him and sing a quick lullaby while rocking him.
He gets put in the crib to cry or even fall asleep. 
Check at the 5 minute mark, usually picking him up to rock him for 3 ABC cycles (I sing the abcs in my head) knocks him out.
Back down, cover with blanket and if needed repeat at the 10 minute mark (if I don't hear any sounds I peak in at the 15 minute mark just to make sure hes settled.

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Not to brag but I feel like our routine is perfect...at least for us.  😎
About 1745 we brush her one tooth, then hop her in the tub and scrub-a-dub-dub.   
At 1800 we get out of the tub, dry off, put on a clean diaper and then her lotion, then jammies.   
Then we do baby-led play, with some toys in her crib with her.   
This lasts mayyyybe five minutes because she lets us know she's ready to go to sleep about 1810.  
So my husband picks her up and gives her to me.  Until recently I rocked her in her rocking chair as she drank milk out of her cup but we're working toward less milk and less rocking at bedtime, so now I stand with her and rock her while she drinks half an ounce (we've been slowly easing down on tbe amount for quite a while).  
There are never any tears at bedtime (although there were at first) and she consistently sleeps at least 11 hours.

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Dinner, bath, quiet/relaxation time with relaxing music on and the lights low, bottle, books and then lay her down in bed. She falls asleep immediately. I also make sure she has 4 hours of awake time before putting her down to bed, so whenever she wakes up from her last nap is how I determine when she goes to bed.

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After dinner he takes a bath every night, soap every couple of days, he loves to play in the warm water. Dry him street and run with lotion, jammies, bottle, brush his teeth, a story if there’s time, then cuddles and put him down, he’s usually out within 5 minutes.

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I actually changed our guy's routine this past week. We used to do a bottle last before bed. We now do a bottle before we even start bath time. Then I brush his teeth in the bath. Jammies, story, bed. Inching our way closer to having milk with meals when he's one!

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Between 7:00 and 7:20 (depending on last nap) I change his diaper and put on his jammies and sleep sack, then I turn the lights out and the sound machine on and rock him while he drinks his milk and I tell him a story.  He pushes the bottle away when he’s done with the milk and then I hold him and sway with him while I sing twinkle twinkle twice, then kiss him, tell him I love him and will see him in the morning, lay him in his crib and leave.  He falls asleep in about 2-5 minutes. Whole process only takes about 15 minutes these days. I said “I” do all these things but he’s so used to the routine that anyone can do it  so his dad and I trade off when we’re home but his grandparents and babysitters do it too when we’re not!

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After dinner we do bath and then night time lotion and jammies and then her dad lays with her on the couch till she falls asleep and then i pick her up and put her in her room with lights off and sound machine on. Sometimes i have to skip him laying with her and rock her in her room with lights off and sound machine on and rock her till she fall asleep some what.

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Jammies at 630 by dad, ￼play until 715, then night time diaper by me. Says good night to dad. We walk up the stairs around 720 and i tell him is bedtime. We turn sound machine on and sit in the rocking chair. Bottle while we rock. I sing “I love you” 1x. Finishes his bottle around 740. I kiss him and say i love you goodnight and lay him in his crib and walk away. Usually he goes right to bed. Sometimes he cries but falls asleep after

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