Which one do I fix first?

Question

I may finally be throwing in the towel and accepting that we have a sleep problem so to keep this post short if your 6 month old has no set bedtime and no routine other than nurse to sleep which would you fix first? 
And if anyone has ideas for bedtime routines for a very active, gets too excited by baths, doesn't like to cuddle unless nursing baby, I'm all ears.

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I have a very active 5.5 month old who took forever to get to sleep and struggled to stay asleep. We started a very simple routine with a bedtime every night about 2 months ago. He gets changed and fed in dim light around 730 then is in bed by 8. If he cries we give him the passy and pat his back but do not take him out of the crib.  It took about 7-10 days and a lot of trips to his crib but he now has the routine and bed time is A LOT better. We still have bad nights once in a while but probably 6 nights a week he goes right to sleep and doesnt wake till he eats at 330-4am....good luck mama!

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Our 6.5 month old doesn't have an exact bedtime but she does to bed around 7 to 8 pm every night. She goes down around 2 hours after she wakes up from her last nap of the day. We have been doing a routine for almost 3 months now, it has changed slightly as shes grown out of things (swaddling and using her snuza), but I made the routine specifically she wouldn't rely on being nursed to sleep. I take her upstairs to her room and turn on her lamp, noise machine and fan; change her diaper; put her in PJs; nurse her in the rocking chair (try and keep her awake if shes falling asleep on the boob); burp her;lotion her chest, belly and legs; read her a book and then I give her a kiss and say the exact same thing every night (I love you more than you know, sleep tight, I'll see you in the morning) while placing her in her crib and placing her wubanub on her chest. When I first started this I was also sleep training so we did the ferber and let her cry it out in timed intervals. It was rough at first but she got the hang of it pretty quickly. Some nights she rolls over and goes straight to sleep, some nights shes a little overtired and while cry for a few minutes before passing out and sometimes she just talks to herself until she passes out. 
Sorry for the novel, but hope some of that helps! Good luck!

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We do in her room with just her night lamp on pjs, bottle if she needs it, story, in the crib then song. Some nights when she is over tired I have to sing and rock her holding in the paci gently till she kinda nods off then feed her. Good luck. You’ll figure something out. And may I suggest trying a few small things now but making any big changes thanksgiving weekend if you are in the states and staying in town. 4 days off will give you more time to get it down without being exhausted at work.

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Lincoln’s sleep pattern changes regularly. 
We started with 830-9 pm first which he picked up well.
Now he’s missing his dinner nap and starts rubbing eyes at 7. So bath/ bottle and usually asleep by 730-745pm.
We do the same thing every night no matter what and that’s seemed to help get him on a routine.

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I try to line up dinner and evening fussiness  (how my baby expresses sleepiness) with bedtime. I don’t do baths or stories either because she gets too wild. Just have the room ready and dark, put on pjs and cuddle up for dinner and tuck into bed. 
-She gets tired around 6pm but I make her wait to go upstairs until 630 minimum (if not she’ll be up and playing late at night).
-She’s asleep by 7pm.
-She’ll wake anytime between 10-1am for a night cap and will sleep to 430-5a
-I’ll let her sleep with me for the last leg of sleep because she’s usually not sleepy enough to do it alone.
-Up at 7am
This is her schedule unless there’s a regression (up every 3h).

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Make a simple bedtime routine that you can do anywhere - hotel, Grandma’s, the spare room at a friend’s house if baby needs to go to sleep a couple of hours before you go home. Our routine is: pajamas/diaper, nurse, sing, Put in sleep sack, lay in crib, turn on fan. Then she’s down.

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We have a bed time but nurse to sleep.. by bedtime I mean he naturally gets grouchy around 8/9 and he runs his eyes-

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