https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:57:38 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2409067 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:24:07 +0000 JenGirl 2409067@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 6 weeks? I think that's when we started having a routine, though it's still not always at the same time now at 3 months. The routine is: dim lights, diaper change with singing, pajamas/sleep sac, white noise, nurse/bottle in glider, into crib. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408852 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 14:11:14 +0000 ineebee 2408852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe around 2-3 months? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408850 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 14:10:31 +0000 lovehoneybee 2408850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>2.5 weeks, and while not a real routine I change G into a sleep gown or PJs at the same time we're getting E into PJs. I nurse her while we read bedtime stories and sing songs and put E to bed, then I swaddle her and nurse her to sleep and put her in the RnP in the living room, where she sleeps for about 4 hrs.</p> <p>I didn't put E onto a schedule for a really long time and I regret it. D is going back to work soon and I'm going back not long after that, so I want to try to get some sort of routine in place (D works second shift, so he won't be here for bedtime...) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408830 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 14:03:29 +0000 blackbird 2408830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly, we never started a routine with T. We just hang out and when it's bedtime, i nurse him and plop him down </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408810 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:54:57 +0000 Alba4 2408810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6-8 weeks? I forget. Our routine hasn't really changed either and DS is almost 2.5. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408437 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:41:47 +0000 mediagirl 2408437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started at 2 months/8 weeks. It got us ready for when I had to go back to work! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408426 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:27:33 +0000 mrsjyw 2408426@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>W Lo1 I think we started regular bath time at 3 weeks. But didn't really have a daily routine until closer to 5/6 weeks.</p> <p>LO2 has been in a bedtime routine since 2/3 weeks beceause we were doing bathtimes with his big bro's nighttime routine, and we thankfully glossed over the witching hour this time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408421 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:23:30 +0000 maybebaby 2408421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: it was breaking bad and mad men w/ j :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408252 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 06:49:15 +0000 hilsy85 2408252@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With lo1, around 6 weeks. This time, we started "putting her to bed" in our room around 8 weeks. That's instead of nursing her and holding her while we watch tv in the living room. And our show this time has been Transparent! With LO1 it was homeland :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408234 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 05:35:33 +0000 FaithFertility 2408234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 3 months?! I think..... lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408225 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 04:22:09 +0000 wrkbrk 2408225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: for real??</p> <p>We started this a month ago and DS is 6 weeks now. Go upstairs around 930. Nurse, bottle, story in our bed, swaddle, down in the halo bassinest beside our bed, white noise, cloud b turtle star projection. He goes in drowsy but awake and when we turn off the lights he sleeps from about 10-7 with one wake up between 2-3 am. This is just down this week from two wake ups. Yay! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408216 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:29:15 +0000 Cherrybee 2408216@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 5 weeks, the health visitor told us we should be putting her to bed in our room, the going back downstairs for the evening. I told DH she was ridiculous (!) but a week later we tried it and it worked really well. So 6 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408214 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:17:39 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2408214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Tbh even though our better sleeper was the one with the routine I really don't think a long bedtime routine made a huge difference. With #2 the things that seem to matter are the environment changes- swaddled in his sleep sack (swaddle weaning now), dark room, etc. You can tell his sleep changes to "night sleep." It has been nice to not stress SO much about it although I think we'll be more consistent the older he gets. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408213 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:14:12 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2408213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With #1 maybe about 6 weeks? In some ways we had a routine from about a week. With #2 he's 12 weeks and still isn't consistent only because we don't always get dd down the exact same time (holidays, lots of things going on, and we've been out of town staying with my parents too) and were falling into something of a routine now. His night sleep still gradually extended and became routine on its own, but his longest stretch is still six hours max. (He can fall asleep on his own sometime and usually at night but chub chub likes to eeeeaaaat so no sttn here..) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408198 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 01:21:43 +0000 Boogs 2408198@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>From day 1. The time fluctuated a bit, but every single night we didn't the whole bath/lotion/reading/feeding routine to signal that it was night/bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408193 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:40:36 +0000 AprilFool 2408193@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6 weeks I think? It's all a bit of a blur. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408191 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:26:27 +0000 PawPrints 2408191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You can start as early as you like. I think we got serious about it around 3 months, when she started needing an actual bedtime (as opposed to just passing out in whatever room we were in and sleeping there until we moved into the bedroom and put her in the co-sleeper). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408172 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:44:19 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2408172@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6 weeks. We start at 8. Bath, lotion, jammies, swaddle, nurse, story read by dad, nurse again, and into the RNP. When we take her in her nursery after her bath the lights are dimmed and the white noise is already going. Before we started the routine she was waking every couple hours and staying up for long stretches at night. After the routine she started sleeping 4 hour stretches, then 6-7. She will Sttn on ocassion now at 12 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408171 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:41:43 +0000 youboots 2408171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not sure if it counts but jams, nurse, bottle, bed. Kind of no frills. She's 10 mo- been doing this from week one. She goes to bed at the same time every night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408169 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:36:25 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 2408169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't quite remember either, but I think it was around 8 weeks? Bath, jammies, nurse, swaddle, bounce until drowsy, and into crib. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408153 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:07:54 +0000 gingerbebe 2408153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6 weeks? Bath, lotion, jammies, milk, sing two songs, prayers, blackout curtains, white noise machine. DS was colicky and had reflux so he never stayed down long but we just did it every night and every theoretical nap (minus bath) to build a sleep association. Bedtime was 730pm, which didn't really stick until 12 weeks but I'm sure helped. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408148 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:02:28 +0000 Foodnerd81 2408148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@maybebaby: I have newborn amnesia too. Right now "bedtime" is when I change her diaper and swaddle her up tight before nursing her and hoping she will sleep for a long time. The rest of the day she usually nurses un swaddled. And we watch Narcos or Homeland during this bedtime. With C it was Breaking Bad. Quality children's television. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408141 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:55:17 +0000 peaches1038 2408141@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just started one last week at about 7 weeks. I nurse him and bounce him on the ball then once he's sleeping we swaddle him and into the Rock n play. Hoping to take out the bouncing soon!! Annnd start the crib transition. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408129 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:36:31 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2408129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 5-6 weeks. But it was later in the evening and I went to bed at the same time as him </p> <p>Bath. Lotion. Jammies. Bottle of pumped milk. Swaddle. Into rock and play and we rocked it a bit until he dozed off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-was-baby-when-you-started-an-evening-routine#post-2408124 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 22:32:11 +0000 maybebaby 2408124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 2.5 and DD is 4 weeks. I seem to have amnesia about the early days! When is best to start working on some kind of evening routine? Right now she just hangs out while we watch Making a Murderer until it's time to got to bed :) </p>