7 week old bed time?

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So I have been trying to figure out a bed time for my little man. He is 7 weeks old and is NOT sleeping through the night. 
He will sleep a 4-5 hour stretch and either be wide awake for an hour or 2 or will sleep only 1-2 hour naps after that. 
I have been putting him to bed between 8:30/9, so his long stretch makes it later in the night. 
Do I need to put him down earlier. I am kind of going crazy with his night sleep all weird. 
He sleeps 3 two hour naps during the day. We have been trying to make a sleep routine but every night/day is different. He has different nap times every day. I don’t know how to get him on a routine if his wake time for the day is different every day. 
Any thoughts or tips? I would greatly appreciate anything 😭

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You're not really going to get a routine out of a 7 week old.

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At that age, sleeping through he night is considered one 5 hour stretch between bed time and wake time. Sounds like he’s doing pretty well. 
Keep consistent with routine and eventually he will grow enough to stick to it. Sleep is a developmental milestone, not something that can be taught, but rather just encouraged.

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You don’t start sleep training till 3/4 months. You just gotta ride the wave for now.

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A bedtime like that isn’t going to help. A routine started now will help in the future but don’t expect a 7 wk old to do what you want them to. 
With my son I would put him to bed the same way every night from like 3/4 wks on. He started sleeping all night about 6 wks (I got so lucky) and he is almost 4 months and still does the same routine and goes to bed all night every night. 
With my daughter I was a ftm and didn’t know what I was doing. She slept like crap for months. 😂

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Sounds like he’s sleeping great. He’s 7 weeks old, I don’t think you can expect better than that

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My daughter's bed time has been 8pm since birth. She's now 7 months. We started her bedtime routine the day we came home from the hospital and it's still the same today. The only difference is that she now sleeps in her crib in her room rather than her pack n play in our room. She's been sleeping through the night (10-12 hours straight) since she was 5 weeks old. We started her nap time schedule at 4 months. Before that, babies really just sleep on demand. But at 4 months we set a nap schedule which is still the same now. We wake at 7am. She naps at 10am and 3pm. 1.5 to 2 hour naps with 3 to 3.5 hour awake times. And then she goes to bed at 8pm. You just need consistency. If you have three nights in a row where everything is consistent and then a random night where it's all over the place, then you're pretty much starting from square one the following night.

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I had a routine with my 6 week old. He got a bottle at 730.. then went to sleep 8 to 1230 woke up for a bottle went back to sleep 130 to 5... then 5 o'clock bottle then back to sleep till around 930 .. he made the routine himself and if I changed up the routine he would bug out! now at 8 weeks  he sleeps more

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let baby sleep when he is tired. be happy if the longer stretched are at night. your.already doing a good job.

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My daughter never had a routine and she made her own, I used to let her sleep whenever she wanted and she still does through the day. Then guaranteed asleep by 7 every night and awake at 7. She’s been doing that since about 3-4 month old. 7 weeks a bit early to be worrying about routine

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