We have a consistent routine down for baby-bath, diaper, lotion, pjs, nurse, swaddle, nurse again (hopefully she falls asleep), if not rock to sleep, bed. However, we do not do it at the same time every night. Sometimes its 8, sometimes 9, depends on her and when she wakes up from her last nap! BUT....this is probably why her sleep SUCKS. So, what time does your/did your 3 month old go to sleep at night? She still wakes at LEAST 2 times a night, but mostly 3. Thanks! 
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Yes. We would wake her no later than 4:30 from her last nap so that we could do bedtime at 5:45 every night. (Yes, that's super early... but that's what she wanted.)
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I'm not quite there yet (11 weeks) but yes we're very consistent on bed time. We weren't until last week when I looked back at our tracking app and realized all her best sleep nights were when we put her to bed between 9 and 9:30. If she goes down either earlier or later she doesn't sleep nearly so well. So now we always put her to bed between 9 and 9:30-- although honestly a lot of times keeping her up that late is ROUGH because she starts wanting to sleep at 8. lol
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Nope we didn't have consistent times until closer to 5 months.
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@ellewoods84: oh and beware thinking any one thing will be a magic cure
it always broke my heart in the early days when it wasn't ha!! A routine is great though, we still use ours at 20m.
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@Mae: What app do you use?!
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@Mrs. BD: It's called FirstYear. We use it to track her eating and sleeping and my pumping, and sometimes diapers if her eating is particularly bad and I want to make sure she has enough wets. I have the world's worst memory and I'm home alone with her 90% of the time so it is seriously a life saver--- especially when doc appts come up and they want to know how often she eats or how much!
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@Mae: Thanks! I am 25 weeks pregnant, so I'm not quite there yet. I know that I won't be able to nurse due to breast surgery, so I haven't gotten into any of those apps, but the sleep thing is great.
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I always aimed for 8 pm and it mostly happened. Though it didn't change anything else about his sleep.
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@Mrs. BD: We use it for bottle feeding. It's nice to see how much she ate and when!
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Yes, starting at 5.5 weeks I decided his bedtime was 7:30. DH would take him up for his bath then, and afterwards I would nurse him to sleep in our bed and then transfer him to the PnP next to me. We still (at 8 months) generally aim for 7:30 bath unless he's super cranky and then we do it earlier.
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Yes, my kids both did. I am a schedule person and luckily they both took to it.
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Yes. DS is 14 weeks and he is in bed between 7:30 & 7:45. We start his routine between 6:45 & 7.
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We typically start bedtime at 9ish, but we've played around with doing it earlier. My LOs generally don't nap in the evening though. They are 12.5 weeks old now. FWIW, mine wake up 2-3 times per night and I feel like that constitutes good sleep at this age! There have been times mine wake up 4-5+ times and that is super rough!
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@scg00387: lol oh I know not to expect anything these days, trust me! But she's been doing this really awesome thing where after we put her to bed she wakes up around 11-12 to eat and then precedes to stay awake for 3 hours. Just wondering if she needs a more consistent bedtime and maybe that would help?
@gilmoregirl: lol oh no.....
@twodoghouse: yeah she pretty much refuses all naps in the late afternoon/evening also. I just wondered if setting a bedtime would benefit her at this age or if it doesn't really matter! -
I don't think we had a consistent bedtime at that point, it was heavily dependant on last wake up. Hey it could be that that's why c was such a bad sleeper then too!
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We watched him starting around 3 months and he had consistent sleepy times - 4 pm, 8 pm, and 10:30 p.m. We just picked the 8 pm time slot and went with it as his bedtime routine. He still woke to eat at 10:30 pm for a few days, but slowly started stretching it out.
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@ellewoods84: I'm dying to institute an early bedtime around 7ish but they don't seem to consistently be ready then. Also half the time DH and I are still running around trying to get chores done and 7 flies right by!
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Yes, she had a consistent bedtime. BUT...it was 10:30/11:00 at 3 months. Didn't get earlier until maybe 5-6 months.
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LO didn't have a consistent bedtime until later but LO 2 wanted to sleep by 6:30 at 3 months old.
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His bedtime was 9-9:30 around that time. He's slowlyyy moved it up to about 8:30 now at 8.5 months. He typically sleeps until 8am.
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Usually between 8:30 to 9:30. I expect it'll get more set at 8:30ish whenever I go back to work next week.
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Well she usually goes to bed between 8-9 because she wakes up from her last nap at 6ish and then that just happens to be the next time she falls asleep. Tonight we are going to try a dream feed for the first time....lol, we shall see!
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Yep, we out her to bed at 7:00-7:30 every night. She is usually asleep by 8:00. She has been in this schedule since she was about 4-5 weeks old. Granted, that's the ONLY reliable part about her sleep haha
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My LO has been going to bed between 8:30-9 and he's 10wks. Tonight I put him down at 8, because he almost never has a late afternoon nap and therefore is up for at least several hours before bed. We'll see what happens.... He may not be ready for an earlier bedtime and I fear that he'll be up for the day at 6am. I'm not ready for that!! And he's been getting up 1-2 times a night, usually 2 but sometimes we get lucky.
ETA: When we first brought him home, his bedtime was 10-10:30, and has slowly gotten earlier, to the 8:30-9 it is now, and I'm trying to get him used to 8pm.
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He seems to have chosen 11pm as his bedtime! We haven't started a bedtime routine yet.
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I think at that age we were still putting DD down for the night pretty late -- like 9 or 10 -- although she was often snoozing in the living room with us earlier than that. Sometime right around 3 months I started instituting an earlier bedtime of 7:30 or 8 PM. It took about a week for her to fully catch on, but once we got her on her new schedule we were quite happy with ourselves.
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Omg what the hell are we doing wrong! Guide me bees because I am clearly clueless!! Okay so for the past 5 nights she has been going to sleep anywhere from 8-9. This is because she is tired and wants to go to bed at that point. She has been awake for around 2-2.5 hours-which is know is too long for her age, but what can you do when she refuses sleep. So anyways, she then wakes up 2-3 hours after the initial fall asleep. Eats. Will not go back to sleep for 3-4 hours. So like....2 or 3 in the morning. Why. What am I doing wrong?! She isn't crying during this time she's awake until we set her down. My husband and I just alternate holding her, sometimes we lay her on our bed and she just is cooing away, sometimes we put her in the swing, etc. my husband is traveling this week and I am so tired. So my question is....should we still be aiming for a 1 to 1.5 hour wake time after her last nap? So if she wakes up at 6ish put her to sleep at 7-730? I mean sometimes she refuses all early evening sleep so her awake time would be incredibly long if she didn't fall asleep at that 5ish nap. She normally would refuse sleep at that time, but I guess it's worth a shot? Because whatever we are doing is clearly not working.
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Yes, we started our bedtime routine at 6 every night. He was in bed around 6:30.
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@ellewoods84: I can't offer advice for your girls night sleep because I have no idea, but I will say that my baby is often awake for more like 2 or 2.5 hours before bedtime even though the rest of his stretches of awake time are shorter. If he is ok I don't worry about the interval overly. And before bed I consider "okay" to be a little looser. Like it's evening and he's getting crankier.
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@gilmoregirl: yeah I thought it was kind of normal for her to be awake longest before bed but then again what do I know because this isn't working. I mean I am sure she needs more than 6 hours of overnight sleep .
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@Mrs. Oatmeal: if your baby fell asleep at 10-11 what were they doing in that time span before? Taking a late nap?
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@ellewoods84: T didn't have a consistent sleep schedule AT ALL until almost 5 months. I just now figured it out. So don't feel like you're doing anything wrong! It was just a matter of figuring it out. I did get some great advice to not have any naps after 3:30, but he goes to bed at 6:30 or 7:00. Ever since I started doing that, we've had bedtime success every night around that time!
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@Danizaur: yeah I am not looking for like a consistent sleep schedule, I know it will be all over the place, but more or less would a consistent bedtime help. And no naps after 330?? OMG how did you do it? Granted she only sleeps about 45 min in that late nap, if I kept her awake she would be fusssssssy.
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@ellewoods84: After we got him on a consistent bed time, naps almost sorted themselves out. And it's rough! Basically when he gets home from daycare around 4 until 6:30 we have a very fussy baby, but he passes out when I nurse him to sleep and stays out until 5am! So it's worth it.
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Yes. That's around the time we moved her bedtime up from 8:30 to 7:30.
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We don't have an exact bedtime but we do have a loose routine and it's about the same time every night. Lo is about 4 months, and for the past month/maybe 6 weeks we've been starting her bedtime routine around 5:30-6:30ish, and she's usually asleep for the night by 6:30-7:30ish. She gets a bath, swaddle, nurse, bottle (we supplement), and then rock to sleep. Sometimes the order gets switched around, and it's nurse bottle nurse. She then sleeps until about 4-6am, and then back to sleep for anywhere from 30mins-2 hrs after that feed. occasionally she has a 1am or so wake up but lately/usually she's out for 9-11 hrs. I think she sleeps so long bc she eats a LOT before bed. Her daytime naps are crap though, she's asleep on me now bc she wouldn't let me put her down and I gave up after awhile ;
Eta we didn't institute this schedule at all-- I really just follow her lead as to when she seems tired, active, or hungry
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@nana87: oh wow! I am jealous. Maybe I am attempting to keep her awake too long in the evening. I guess I should try to get her down a bit earlier. Who knows
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We're only at 10 weeks but have absolutely no schedule or routine and no immediate plans to enact one! So you're not totally alone! I'm still just following his cues all day and night, but we're not really a scheduley family so it's working for us.
I will say I've noticed we need to shelter him more for eating/sleeping than we used to, so maybe a dark quiet room once you see she's getting sleepy might help her resist it less?
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We were really stuck on a 9pm bedtime for awhile at 3 months! And then we had to start waking her up at a specific time in the AM for work and that's when she really started to get on a schedule...
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