Bedtime?

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When did everyone establish a "bedtime" for their little one? My son is a week and a half old. We usually put him to bed around 11 (when we go to bed). Then he wakes up around 2:30 to change/eat and once again at 6am to change/eat. Then we usually veg and take a little nap together. Should I be putting him to bed earlier starting now?

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I wish I could get my week and half year old to sleep like that!! That's awesome keep up the good work!

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I think you're doing great. At that age, I just let baby set the schedule but would open the curtains so she knew it was daytime and at night I would keep it dark and not interact with her so she would stay sleepy. It's helped to instill a schedule as she got older.

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Sounds like you're doing great. We wake up around 7 so I try put my three month old down between 7-8. This is to allow for a max 12 hour rest once she gets older and starts sleeping through the night (that's what I did with my first and she sleeps 7pm to 7am at 2.5). She will get a dream feed around 12-2am depending  on when we go to bed and if my husband and I fall asleep watching tv on the couch. And then will wake up to eat between 3-5. And wake up for the day around 7-8 am. Your lo is doing a good second stretch so you can try an earlier bedtime to try to gradually increase the fist stretch if you want. Good luck with everything👍

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I would keep doing what your doing. I just try to make sure my lo is has a routine about the same time every night. Jammies at 7:30pm...a bit of "play"....then a bottle between 8-8:30....she's usually down in her bassinet between 9:30-10pm.

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10pm she wakes up at 3am to eat and then again at 7am that's pretty much has been her schedule she'll be 2 months this week

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You are doing great. As they get older they will establish the bedtime. We did a routine w our first starting at about a month. By six weeks she was sleeping through the night. By 12 weeks her bedtime was 7:30. She decided that was when she was tired. We have started working on establishing a routine with baby girl #2 and she is two weeks old. Stick with it and it will get earlier and earlier

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Eh I'd just keep doing what you are doing. He is still young.
Since my daughter has been 2 week's she has been on a schedule.
Bed: 9pm-12am
Feeding: 12am-12:30am
Bed: 12:30am-5:15am
Feeding: 5:15am-5:30am
Bed: 5:30am-10am
Feeding:10-10:30am
Then she is awake for HOURS!!! She take's tiny nap's after feeding's during the day but since I have a 3 year old it's really hard for her too sleep. So by 9/10pm she is so tired. The hrs aren't exact but that's pretty much how she sleep's from 9/10-12/1, 12/1-5, 5-10.

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I'd keep doing what you're doing. We did the same thing with my daughter. She went to bed at 10:30. And then around 3/4 months we came up with a bedtime routine. But by then she lowered her bedtimes by herself. So I just listened to her and what she needed. Now she goes to bed at 7-7:30. And we do her routine and I put her in her crib and she goes to bed.

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