https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:35:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2012987 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 22:41:26 +0000 Ms. Lilbunny 2012987@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Since you have been so consistent with your LOs bedtime routine, I think she would know that it is bedtime even if you start it at 7:30 instead of 9. If she should wake up soon after you may want to treat it as a middle of the night wake up. I have the opposite problem that you do. My LO wakes up too early. He started daycare two weeks ago. By the time my DH drops him off, his awake time is +2hrs. I hope your LO's new bedtime works out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2010333 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:35:47 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2010333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Eminthevalley: thanks. I'll look it up in the book. I don't think my baby will adjust bedtime herself so I'm going to have to do it for her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2010208 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:44:00 +0000 Eminthevalley 2010208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: We followed Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins pretty closely (Happy Child is the other version), and he suggests that three months is the age when bedtime should be moved earlier. 6:30 was chosen by the babies...one night they were just SO fussy at 5:30 we gave them a bath to calm down, then they both passed out while taking their 6:00 bottle...we tried repeating the next night and again, 6:30! They are almost 2 and that remains the bedtime. Several twin mamas suggested that the reason they were so fussy from 4-8 was that bedtime needed to be earlier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009921 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 11:18:55 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2009921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@My Only Sunshine: thanks for the tip. </p> <p>I moved her bedtime up by 30 mins and she won't up about an hour earlier today. I'm hoping this will get better in a couple days. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009725 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:17:37 +0000 My Only Sunshine 2009725@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: When we've done any kind of routine change (moving bedtime, dropping a nap, dropping a middle of the night feed, etc.) we've had much more luck doing it all at once than trying to drag it out. Dragging it out seems to just extend the misery. Doing it all at once takes a night or two but then she adjusts OK.</p> <p>Just a heads up on your timing- my experience has been my daughter sleeps the same total amount at night when we moved her bedtime. So if you move her bedtime back from 9 to 7:30, she'll get up an hour and a half earlier than she had been. In your question it seemed like you only want her to get up one hour earlier, so you might want to only move bedtime by an hour. Just throwing it out there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009703 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:06:26 +0000 Littlebit 2009703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My baby never figured out on his own when I tried to bump up bedtime. </p> <p>He was sleeping from 10:30pm-10am (with wake-ups) and treated his 'bedtime' like a nap...I was trying to get his bedtime to be around 7:-7:30. Eventually I had to start waking him early because he had to go to the sitters. So the last 4 days of maternity leave I set an alarm and woke us both up at 6am. He figured it out in 2 days and now goes to sleep around 7:15-7:30 and wakes up at 6am during the week. He usually sleeps in until 7-8 on the weekends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009574 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 01:13:25 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2009574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Zbug: I know. But she'll start day care soon and we'll need to wake up earlier and be out of the house by 8, so I wanted to start shifting the schedule. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009526 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 23:52:06 +0000 Zbug 2009526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: honestly, if she's only waking up once, I'd be inclined not to mess with things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009482 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:37:19 +0000 catomd00 2009482@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: leave lights off and treat it as a MoTN waking. I am in the camp of never wake a sleeping baby! It's always worked for us, but you know your baby best! Try it for a few nights... If she wakes up late ready to party you can always go back to what works! I wouldn't be too worried about trying, honestly everything will get messed up soon anyways if you hit the 4 month sleep regression! Good luck. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009477 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:25:41 +0000 singingbee 2009477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: We did it gradually over a week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009468 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:16:13 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2009468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catomd00: how did you know that the 6:30-7 was bedtime and not a nap? When she takes the 6:40-7pm nap I always wake her to do the evening routine. I've been too afraid to leave her to sleep because I think she'll wake at like 10-11 and won't want to go back to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009446 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 21:43:29 +0000 catomd00 2009446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 4 months my dd naturally went from a 9/10 pm bedtime to 630/7. I'd just go ahead and try the earlier time right away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009378 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:49:19 +0000 Tanjowen 2009378@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: I say go for it! I think she will eventually "get" that 7 p.m. is bedtime. Our LO woke up around 11ish for a bit, but then he did a 7 p.m. bedtime, 4:00 a.m. wakeup to eat and then 7:00 a.m. wakeup time for quite some time.</p> <p>At 12 months, we are at 7 p.m. bedtime still, sometimes a 4:30 a.m. wake-up (ugh - that's recent) and wake-up time of 6:00 a.m.. The 6 a.m. is also recent. I think we are going through a 12 month regression/learning how to walk phase. Up until a few weeks ago it was consistently 7 a.m. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009348 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:31:34 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2009348@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Tanjowen: we have a routine that consists of bath, bottle and story. Right now she only wakes up once around 4:30-5:30am, but I'm worried that we will start to have multiple wakings by pushing bedtime earlier. Before the 7 pm nap, she wakes up around 5-5:30. Sometimes it's a little earlier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009331 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:22:07 +0000 Tanjowen 2009331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: Do you do a bedtime routine? We started a bedtime routine at 4 weeks, and it seemed to signal to him that it was time for bed. It was bath, bottle, song and bed.</p> <p>Your LO might still wake up afterward, but we treated like a middle of the night wakeup, and would just feed with no light and no talking and put him back to bed. Eventually it started to work. </p> <p>When time does your LO wake up from their last nap before the 7 p.m. nap? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009329 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:19:10 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2009329@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Tanjowen: we have a nap around 7 pm. She always wakes up after about 30 mins. Any idea on how to change that so it becomes bedtime instead of a short nap?</p> <p>What time is bedtime now? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009285 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:40:49 +0000 Tanjowen 2009285@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: We did an earlier bedtime after the 4 month sleep regression. Up until that point, he slept at 7pm, woke up at 10 pm to eat, again at 4 a.m. and then up at 8 a.m. for the day. </p> <p>After the regression, we noticed he slept longer periods at night and since he was sleepy at 7 p.m. anyways, we went with it as bedtime, and it's been that way every since! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009278 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:31:06 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2009278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Eminthevalley: what made you decide to make bedtime earlier? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009082 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:17:23 +0000 Eminthevalley 2009082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think at that age you can change all at once. We sleep trained at 13 weeks, went from putting them down at 8:30-9 to 6:30. We did a dream feed at 9:30 and they'd sleep thru until 6:30. At that age they're not generally on a super schedule anyway. In my experience that's a highly adaptable age, but of course every baby is different! Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/adjusting-babys-schedule#post-2009051 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 15:49:59 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2009051@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Right now 3.5 month old starts the day around 8-8:30am, and goes to bed around 9. I'd like to change it so that the day starts around 7-7:30 and she goes to bed around 7:30. Is it best to do it gradually by adjusting like 15 mins at a time every week, or would it be OK to just change it all together? </p>