Anyone know how to push bedtime back?

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I feel like ever since daylight savings my baby girl can hardly make it to 6 pm anymore and then she’s up by 5 am everyday. I would love to push her bedtime back to 7 but she gets beyond miserable and if we try to let her take a third nap she goes into a deep sleep as if it’s nighttime. 
Side note shes also a TERRIBLE napper 😐 today we had to vacuum while wearing her in a baby carrier to get her to nap 🤦🏻‍♀️

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My daughter goes to bed 2-2.5 hours after she wakes up from her last nap. Sometimes that’s 7:15, sometimes it’s 8:30. Shes never gone to bed before 7, but it just depends when her last nap ends. It’s more about wake windows & less about the actual time.

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Having the same issue. Plus, my daughter only likes to take 30 minute naps. 😩 She generally goes down every 2 hours. Our pediatrician recommended extending the time between naps in an effort to consolidate and try and get her to nap longer.
Last week we started forcing her to stay up 2 hours and 15 minutes between naps (she’s a total crank, but we just play with her, blow raspberries on her tummy, anything to distract her for the extra 15). Finally, tonight she went to bed at 6:30. 
This week we plan to add another 15 minutes between naps (for a total of 2 1/2 hours). 🤞🏻 Maybe this technique might help you - it’s painful, though (but only for the parents 🤣).

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My 6 month old goes to bed at 6 so I’m of no help lol. She will go into a deep nap as well if I let her take a 3rd nap. She may just be a 5 am riser. My daughter wakes at 7 on the dot every single day. No matter what.

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Push it in 15-20 minute increments! Make it total distraction and super fun! We pushed our daughters back with a bath time closer to when we wanted her to go to sleep.

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Have you tried pushy back bedtime really slowly? For example, try to push her bedtime to 6:10 for a couple days, then another 10 minutes and so on until you get to where you want. Depending on how flexible your baby is this could take a couple weeks s you have to stick with it. Another thing is maybe try to do something she really likes at the first signs of tiredness to help distract her for those 10 minutes; this could be going for a walk or taking a bath or listening to music and dancing.

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My first daughter used to sleep all the time!! 3 naps as well as sleeping all night. But she did wake up early in the am. If I tried to keep her up she would still wake up early but just was crankier than usual. I just learned to be a morning person!

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My baby’s bedtime was 6pm but then the daylight savings changed it to 5pm and when the sun goes down by 4:48pm she started getting cranky and wants to go to bed so what I did was after giving in for a few days she was always up by 5am as well, I started pushing up her bedtime 30mins forward, and made her take three naps. She’s doesn’t nap for long as well, mostly 30mins or 40 sometimes shorter, some days I get lucky and get an hour in but happens very rarely but she always naps. So I make her take a nap by 9/10am, and by 12/1pm and also by 3/4pm that way she’s not too tired by 4:30pm and can stay up till about 5:50pm when we start our bedtime routine. She adjusted pretty quickly and now stays up through it until we’re done and she goes to bed finally at about 6:20pm so we’re back to square one and sleeps until about 7am or 8am with about 2/3 midnight feedings. Hope this helps! X 
You just gotta push it one day at a time until your baby adjusts & they will quickly

Anyone know how to push bedtime back?

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