How long does it take to put your little one to sleep for the night?

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I’m curious, especially with this weird 30 minute sleep / wake cycle during naps, how long each of you take at nightime bedtime. Not the routine, just the actual sleep process. My boy is tough, fights sleep, and it takes awhile. We are going to figure out how to help him self-soothe, but not yet, he’s too high needs and little. Would love to hear your processes with our October babes

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We don’t do cio, but he takes less than 5 minutes for both naps and bedtime. I truly believe having a set nap time/bedtime routine helps a ton. Once we start the routine, he’s already picking up cues and getting sleepy. He’s usually out like a light once I set him down.

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5 minutes. We don’t use the CIO method. She comes into the room that is all ready for her (fan, humidifier, salt lamp, sound machine). We swaddle her with arms out and binky her, within two minutes she is out. BUT naps suck. And this is a whole different story. Literally could take 30 min - an hour to get her to nap. How are your naps?

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The last three night it’s taken me four hours to get him to sleep as he sleeps on my boob (I did not intend for this to become a habit and I don’t know how to stop it) we’ve even tried to get him really exhausted with doing heaps of activities before he is due to go down and he fights it or he falls asleep on my boob and then as I’m urging him into his crib he wakes up and we start the whole process again. I’m on four hours of sleep. I’m putting this behaviour down to the 4th leap

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Honestly what I do is 
I give him bottle and make sure he doesn’t fall asleep while drinking it because I don’t want him to associate sleep and feed because I’m trying everything I can to make him sleep longer! Than he will sometimes sleep so I wake him with talking to him and burping him and have been laying him down making sure his eyes open he will cry for about a min-3min sometimes more sometimes less 
My son is a paci addict and still wakes up for feeds so I’m trying to get him to stop both the pacifier is what’s making him wake so I stopped giving it to him 
So I’m not really letting him cry it out but I am? Just less than 5 min.. might up it in the future but I’m never not checking on him or I’ll his chest and belly to let him know I’m there

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This is my second baby. 
First baby only slept on me until he was 9months old, napped in a carrier during the day 🙈😅 second baby loves to sleep in her basinet & goes down super easily with booby suckling or a paci sometimes just falls asleep while I’m walking around getting ready for bed.., she’s super easy.... swaddling her & putting her on her side in a boppy pillow helps her sleep longer.. she can do stretches of 3-4 hours... she wakes to eat & within a few min she’s out again... Both my kids are completely different... ❤️

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My babe isn’t 4 months yet, he’s only 14 weeks but I wait until he’s showing all his sleepy signs then I’ll put him down. It’s usually about and hour and a half after he eats, we swaddle and rock and he’s out within 10-15 min. This is for naps and bedtime. Not looking forward to next month.

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Anywhere from 5-20 minutes depending on the night. After his books we turn the lights off and give him his binky and he snuggles with dad.. sometimes he’s out in a minute and other times he’ll fight it for a little. Never more than 20 minutes though.

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I clicked 40-45 mins but that includes night time routine. If I don't include the routine it takes like 5 mins once he's in his bassinet.

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Usually about 5 minutes for us as well. We dont use the CIO method. We do a sleep routine. Same thing every night at the same time. And he just knows. He'll fuss for about 5 min and then out. Naps same thing. Shorter routine. He'll fuss for about 5 minutes, and then hes asleep.

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Typically she takes 5 minutes. This 4 month sleep regression has been rough though, so most of last week she was taking anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. We are now back to under 5 minutes for two nights in a row, so I’m hoping we are over the sleep regression. 🤞🏻

How long does it take to put your little one to sleep for the night?

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