https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:54:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-671399 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:59:47 +0000 red_seattle 671399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>X sleeps from 7pm to 6:30-8:00am every night. Once he was done teething and got a full month in without being sick, his sleep has drastically improved. He has had a 7pm bedtime since he was 3 months old, and he has always slept better when we stick to the bedtime. When we don't, he sleeps worse and wakes up earlier. And any variance in the bedtime throws his sleep off for days. Earlier is better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-671371 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:49:30 +0000 sumer08 671371@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO's bedtime is usually around 7:45pm, and he generally sleeps till about 7am. There a few nights where we'll get behind, and he'll go to bed after 8pm (sometimes as late as 8:30 if we're out to dinner or something like that), but we find that he typically sleeps better with an earlier bedtime. 7:45pm (and no later than 8:00) seems to be the best bedtime for now at least. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-669705 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:18:08 +0000 twoofeverything 669705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our bedtime has naturally sort of moved up to 7ish. We started doing a dream feed around 6-7 weeks, (when their bedtime was still 8pmish), and shortly thereafter, they started extending their sleep. Our 3am wakeup slowly moved back about 15 minutes each day, and now they're waking up between 4:30-5 for a quick paci, then going back down again for a couple hours before waking for the day between 6:15 and 6:45.<br /> Unfortunately, (or maybe fortunately?), their naps got shorter when they started STTN. That led to the earlier bedtime; it became clear that they were DONE by 7pm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-669675 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:39:30 +0000 Angie Gentle Sleep Coach 669675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pastemoo: are you till having sleep issues? Maybe I can suggest a few tips for you... What's your child's age?? Is your child a restless sleeper? Any allergies, excema?? What do daytime naps look like ( how long are they? How many?) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-669599 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:38:59 +0000 irene 669599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When my LO was 4.5 months, his bedtime was around 6:30-7pm. And no, he didn't STTN... he woke 1-2 times to nurse back then, between 2-5am. He was exclusively breastfed 1-6 months, started solids at 6 months, mixed in formula at 8 months and stopped BF at 10 months. He didn't STTN until 7-8 months thanks to the starting of solids and chicken porridge :)</p> <p>I didn't mind it at all back then (waking 1-2 times to BF), although now looking back, I didn't know how I could do it! Now at almost 14 months, on the weekends, he can sleep from 7pm-9am...! I guess he's too tired from the week and he's catching up on the weekend.</p> <p>I think it is a good habit to sleep at an early hour. They will eventually sleep 12 hours straight, and you'd hate to have him wake at 10am when you need to get him ready at 7am to go to daycare! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-666659 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:39:41 +0000 iheartleopardprint 666659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I put DD down between 6:30 and 7:30, and she will sleep for 8 hours feed then go back to sleep until about 7am. For me, her getting more sleep at night, ie 12 hours, is more important that her sleeping through. I would much rather put her to bed earlier so she can sleep longer that put her to bed later just so she slept through completely. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-666396 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:22:08 +0000 BelugaBean 666396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I found that my LO sleeps better if she goes to bed earlier. She now goes to sleep around 6:45-7 and she doesn't wake up until 7:30-8:30 in the morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-666367 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:11:07 +0000 skibobrown 666367@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had the same worry when I started putting DD down early, but people aren't lying when they say that babies sleep better with an earlier bedtime. Totally counter-intuitive, right? Our daughter sleeps 7:30 - 7:30 on average. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-666365 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:09:40 +0000 LuLu Mom 666365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO sleeps 7:30-8 to 6. She used to go to bed at 9:30 and we would have to wake her up at 6:30 for daycare. She started to put herself to bed earlier, we didn't encourage the earlier bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-666354 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:07:23 +0000 hilary 666354@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is almost 4 months and does 7 to 7. We actually get her up on weekdays. She lets us sleep in on weekends until 8. She must just be sleepy like her parents! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-663626 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:14:32 +0000 Sophs Mama 663626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter (4 months old) eats "dinner" at around 6, has a bath at 7 and is usually asleep between 7:30 and 8. She sleeps until 5:30, gets up to eat, then goes back down (usually in bed with us) until 9:30 or 10. We are very lucky. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-663343 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:21:04 +0000 meganmp 663343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They sleep 7-5:30, eat, then back to sleep until 8ish- they're 4 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-663330 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:52:11 +0000 luckypenny 663330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>7:30 to 5 am then feeds then goes to sleep again until 7ish </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-663239 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:40:19 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 663239@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She sleeps 7 pm to 7 am. We are very lucky. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-663238 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:39:08 +0000 cheesetomywhine 663238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My lo is in bed around 7-7:15 and we wake her at 7:15 am. I did a dreamfeed until almost 8 months when I started feeding her solids 3x a day (I felt she needed the extra feed). She is 9 months now and sleeps through. I probably could've weaned earlier but I did not mind. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-663115 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:57:15 +0000 mrsjyw 663115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Chen: we actually didn't formally sleep train. ds went thru the usual nb sleep cycles...around 6 weeks we reswaddled him to transition sleeping in pnp and crib from a newborn lounger/cosleeping (tsk tsk), we followed a loose eat play sleep cycle and his nb bedtime of 11/12 slowly moved up to 830 during the second month. he settled into a pretty decent routine of sleeping 830-230 nurse then back down for another 4 hours or so.... then the third month we had a random couple of weeks of 2+ wakeups. On random night during week 11, I unswaddled him, then the following week, we/he nightweaned, a few days later he STTN (12 weeks), he slept 7-7 pretty consistently for three weeks when we hit the 4 mth regressino for a few days, but since then he's been sleeping 730-630 give or take a half hour. </p> <p>he's been a good sleeper and we're extremely fortunate. i know that during the transitions, what helped was turning off the monitor volume and only going in when we heard him whimper from the room. all the other times, he'd always put himself back to sleep. a couple nights of paciing/a couple nights of him finding his thumb... we'll get random early wakeups sometimes if he goes to bed too late. but i think he's naturally fallen into this night sleep cycle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-662386 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:35:56 +0000 pastemoo 662386@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurpleUnicorn: My LO is 10 months, goes to bed at 7 30, STTN (well,,,, nearly! made it to 5 am) a couple times, and is now up like 6 (billion? feels like billion) times a night.<br /> I wish I knew what to do about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-662359 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:04:33 +0000 Kemma 662359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Miss A is in generally in bed at around 1930 and wakes any time between 0330 &amp; 730. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-662355 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:55:35 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 662355@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurpleUnicorn: W would wake up around 6 or 7 and would go right back to sleep for at least another hour after a little snack. The latest she would sleep was 8:30 but that didn't last long after she started daycare, because she was used to getting up at 7 each morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-662346 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:34:39 +0000 HabesBabe 662346@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>C goes to bed between 6:30-7:30p-- she usually wakes up to nurse around 11p, 2a, and 6a. She's 8 months old.</p> <p>The past few days, she has been waking up at 1a, 4a, and 6a. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-662322 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:00:06 +0000 LemonLong 662322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is asleep in her crib by 7, we have to wake her up at 5 am every morning for daycare though. I think if we didn't wake her up every morning then she would sleep later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-662314 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:40:04 +0000 travelgirl1 662314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurpleUnicorn: I know exactly what you mean! A is definitely ready for bed by about 8pm but it's usually 10.30pm by the time we get her down for the night I'm so exhausted and don't get any me time at all. Let me know if you figure it out, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-662295 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:13:19 +0000 dolphin 662295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjyw: oh my that's an awesome sleep schedule! Did you ever have to do any sleep training or did your son naturally sleep so well? So jealous! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-660986 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:35:33 +0000 loveisstrange 660986@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>C's bedtime is between 6:30-7 and she wakes up usually between 7:30 and 8:30. From about 6 months until 9 months, she slept 6/6:30 until 8/8:30am.</p> <p>She started sleeping in later when we put her down earlier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-660968 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:28:54 +0000 mrsjyw 660968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS just turned 4 months yesterday.</p> <p>Since 12 weeks he's been sleeping 7-7 or 730-730. Then we hit the 4 mth regression for a few days a cpl wks ago. He's back to STTN, but sleeps 730-630ish </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-660960 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:26:46 +0000 twoofeverything 660960@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We put our LO's (16 weeks) down between 7-7:30pm. At 9:45-10pm, we dream feed them, which usually gets us to about 6 or 6:30am. They do tend to rouse around 5am, but they'll take a paci and go right back to sleep.<br /> Sleeping in is a thing of the past for us, but I'll take early wake-up calls if it means they STTN! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-660940 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:21:04 +0000 autumn865 660940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is in bed by 6:30-7 and on her STTN nights she will wake around 5 to nurse and sleep another 2 hours or so. Not STTN nights she wakes anywhere between 12 and 2 to nurse and wakes up around 6:30. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-660909 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:11:48 +0000 mediagirl 660909@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurpleUnicorn: not at all. First time ever she has slept that long. :) We have had a 7pm bedtime since she was 3 months old. It has helped us because we go to bed early and need to get up early. I hear you on not being able to go back to sleep - that's my husband. I usually can conk back out pretty quickly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-660874 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:04:12 +0000 PurpleUnicorn 660874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: that is amazing! and she didn't wake up at all last night? I would still choose STTN starting at 9pm over one night waking only because I have trouble going back to sleep when I get up to nurse him in the middle of the night. I am just the worst sleeper ever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-your-lo-has-a-7pm-ish-bedtime#post-660855 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:59:23 +0000 mediagirl 660855@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She is asleep at or before 7pm every night. She gets up maybe once a night. She has never been up for the day before 5:30am. She would normally sleep past 6 if we let her. Last night she slept from 6-6:30. Amazing. </p>