https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:10:29 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime/page/2#post-1791981 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:38:40 +0000 ellewoods84 1791981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NovBaby1112: sounds good to me! lol, I will try anything at this point. Thanks so much for the advice. I was just struggling with okay, if she wakes up at lets say....6 pm, should I keep her up until 7 and then try for another nap? or start her bedtime routine at 6 pm and then get her to sleep at 7? Either way, I guess it doesn't matter because if she stays asleep at 7, awesome, but if not, we can just treat that as a nap! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime/page/2#post-1791911 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:23:14 +0000 NovBaby1112 1791911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ellewoods84: ahh ok, well in that case yea I would def try to have her asleep earlier, esp after only a 30-45 minute nap. I would aim for 45 minutes - 1 hour awake time after that last nap, so you would start your actually bedtime routine (whatever you do- ie. bath, book, milk, etc...) and try to have her ASLEEP within 1 hour from when she wakes up. I would give it a try and see if she falls asleep easier and hopefully stops being up for hours in the MOTN. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime/page/2#post-1791900 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:21:20 +0000 ellewoods84 1791900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LovelyPlum: lol I know we will get there. We both will! I am just over these motn parties! I thought maybe instituting an earlier bedtime would help! Who knows. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime/page/2#post-1791886 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:18:35 +0000 ellewoods84 1791886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NovBaby1112: we aim to have awake of 1 to 1.5 hours between naps depending on how long it takes her to fall asleep. I always prep her for nap around 1 hour. She naps okay...2-2.5 for her first nap, but then usually 45 minutes the rest of the day. Usually her last nap is 30 min maybe 45. I don't want her to be awake 2 hours but she just won't sleep any earlier. But maybe if I push the routine up earlier she would sleep earlier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime/page/2#post-1791837 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:08:17 +0000 winniebee 1791837@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started moving towards a consistent bed time at 3 months. By 4 months it was 7 pm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime/page/2#post-1791778 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:52:56 +0000 LovelyPlum 1791778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Oatmeal: @jhd: yep, this is us! I tried to make it 730 a while, but she would take a catnap and then wake back up, happy as can be. She sleeps like a champ in the morning, though. Whatever, we will get there :) Mama's tired, but I'm not out to change the world. One thing at a time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime/page/2#post-1791745 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:45:39 +0000 LovelyPlum 1791745@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ha, if by "consistent bed time," you mean she slept at some point every night, then yes. If there was a routine, she was generally asleep by 11. Otherwise, no! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime/page/2#post-1791683 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:33:10 +0000 NovBaby1112 1791683@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>at 3 months LO went to bed anywhere from 6:30 to 7:30pm, depending on her last nap. </p> <p>@ellewoods84: At that age my LO would have a cat nap around 5:30 or so for about 30-45 minutes, then I would have her in bed by 7pm usually. She might be awake for long hours in the MOTN bc she is overtired. 2-2.5 hours is a long awake time at that age. How long is her last nap usually? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime/page/2#post-1791643 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:25:48 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1791643@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With DD, yes... it was 6:30 pm every day. With DS, no... it was just 3 hours from his last nap of the day, so it would vary anywhere from 6:30-8. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime/page/2#post-1791416 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:48:46 +0000 ellewoods84 1791416@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@anandam: yeah I don't care about a schedule either and it was working for us but now it seems like it's not! It's just annoying because she doesn't have an issue falling asleep at night. It's that she is staying awake after her first night waking for many many hours and then sleeps crappy after that. I thought since we don't have her on any sort of schedule it might help.<br /> @blackbird: 9 pm sounds good-that's what we are pretty much doing. But why is she staying awake soooo long when she wakes up after her first feeding? Don't get it. And because of that she wakes up at a different time every morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1791369 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:36:54 +0000 blackbird 1791369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1791366 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:36:17 +0000 anandam 1791366@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> <p>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? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1791181 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:50:18 +0000 ellewoods84 1791181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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 :sad: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1791057 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:17:13 +0000 nana87 1791057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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 ;</p> <p>Eta we didn't institute this schedule at all-- I really just follow her lead as to when she seems tired, active, or hungry </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1791033 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:05:29 +0000 lawbee11 1791033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. That's around the time we moved her bedtime up from 8:30 to 7:30. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1791015 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:59:03 +0000 artsyfartsy 1791015@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790811 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:41:42 +0000 ellewoods84 1790811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790806 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:38:48 +0000 artsyfartsy 1790806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790803 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:37:30 +0000 ellewoods84 1790803@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Oatmeal: if your baby fell asleep at 10-11 what were they doing in that time span before? Taking a late nap? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790793 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:30:43 +0000 ellewoods84 1790793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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 . </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790775 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:13:29 +0000 gilmoregirl 1790775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790726 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 06:20:22 +0000 ValentineMommy 1790726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we started our bedtime routine at 6 every night. He was in bed around 6:30. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790725 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 06:16:42 +0000 ellewoods84 1790725@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790611 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:46:52 +0000 skibobrown 1790611@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790592 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:29:08 +0000 jhd 1790592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He seems to have chosen 11pm as his bedtime! We haven't started a bedtime routine yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790583 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:13:56 +0000 BabyTsMom 1790583@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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.</p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790580 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:08:15 +0000 fussygal 1790580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790538 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:36:27 +0000 ellewoods84 1790538@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790524 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:17:52 +0000 Mamasig 1790524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-3-month-old-have-a-consistent-bedtime#post-1790522 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:17:34 +0000 lilteacherbee 1790522@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p>