What’s everyone’s bedtime routines?

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Do you have one yet? 
My baby is 6 weeks old and I don’t really have a set one yet but we are falling into a bit of a pattern. My baby will have a fussy period right at bed time so we do a lot of bouncing and dancing with her. I will then try to get her to have a last feed, a dummy and into her swaddle. I sing her moonshadow song and if she is completely calm I’ll put her in the co-sleeper next to my bed. Even if she seems wide awake she will usually fall asleep within 5 minutes. I’ll follow her to sleep soon after and hope she stays asleep for a nice 4 hour stretch. Yesterday we got to 4.5hours!

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Sounds like my “routine”. Our issue is after that 4-4.5 hour stretch she doesn’t go back to sleep. It’s 5:15 and we’re still up from our 3am feeding 😳

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We’ve got ours down pretty good now! I try to space our evening nursing sessions so she eats around 8:15/8:30. If it’s a bath night, we bathe before that. After nursing, we read a book or two to calm down, if needed, and then she’s swaddled and put down drowsy. She’s been sleeping through the night now for two weeks, and so she’s usually asleep from 9-4, and she gets up to nurse and then right back to sleep until 8 am or so. Also, we have her on a pretty strict napping schedule (a 3 hr loop) where we feed her, she plays (tummy time, singing, something) and then she naps for about an hr. This has helped her sleep better at night for sure! Good luck!

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At around 8 or 8:30 if it’s bath night we will give her a bath or if not we will get her into her jammies and let her hang out in her swing for a little bit then around 9 we turn the lights down and make her a bottle. My husband reads a book to her while she has her bottle and generally once she’s finished the bottle she goes to sleep. Then I swaddle her up and put her in her bassinet and she generally sleeps until 5-5:30.

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I just started with a bedtime routine because my little guy would stay up til 5am some days and I was living off of no sleep and coffee lol. Around 9:45pm we do a bath and then turn down the lights around the house. After that I get him ready for bed and do a little baby massage. He’s normally ready to eat at that point and then will fall asleep after that. It’s helped so much and I’ve only been doing this a few nights! 
We do still bedshare and he is still waking up every 2-3hrs at night so that’s the next hurdle to jump over. He’s 2months today so I’m hoping he’ll start sleeping longer stretches soon.

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In my dreams. He usually goes down around 1:30 for bed and then wakes up in 2 1/2 to 3 hours to eat and then its hit or miss after that if he goes back to bed or not, this morning he did not. I stay up until 12 with him because he doesn’t like to be put down and then my fiancé stays up with him until he goes to sleep/gets up with him from 12-5 . I’m tired. My house is trashed. Why is my baby like this 😐

What’s everyone’s bedtime routines?

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