Bedtime Routine

My baby's bedtime when he was a newborn used to be 11pm-- and that was us trying everything to get him to sleep.

Now he is 4 months and we usually can manage to get him out by 9:30. For the most part he'd sleep from 9:30-7:30am. Fusses once or twice during the night but falls back asleep.

I am trying to get his bedtime to 8pm. That's my goal atleast. So lately I've been starting his bedtime routine 10, then 20, then 30 minutes earlier than usual--- but now he wakes up at 5:30am!!!! If I'm lucky he'd fall back asleep but wake up 30 minutes later.

As much as I like his bedtime earlier than we had, I am dreading being awake at 5:30am. And mind you, he is like very awake-- wanting to play and all and my body is still trying to cope from hours of sleep I lack months ago. Hahaha.

Any tips??? Would appreciate it.