https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:13:47 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-2495751 Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:42:05 +0000 pachamama 2495751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bump! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212572 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:20:07 +0000 erinpye 212572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BeachMama: I know your question wasn't directed at me, but when we started LO's bedtime routine at 6 weeks, we found that feeding her, giving her a bath, putting her in her swaddle and rocking her every night at the same time, got her body ready to sleep and it worked really well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212570 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:18:02 +0000 skibobrown 212570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Somewhere around 6 or 8 weeks we decided that baby would go to bed between 7 and 8 PM. She caught on within a week or so, and it gave DH and I some time to eat dinner and have some us time after baby was already asleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212567 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:15:46 +0000 BeachMama 212567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsdaredevil. So how do you put LO down? Mine is 6 wks and there's no way I could get her to sleep if ate wasn't ready. I feel like every day is a toss up and doesn't follow any pattern. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212549 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:03:19 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 212549@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 6 weeks I tried to start putting her down around the same time, but just the past 5 days (she is now 7 weeks, 4 days) has it really been sticking. She goes down around 7, and then sleeps three 4 hour stretches after that.<br /> I noticed that she is a much happier baby the earlier we put her down. At 5 weeks she started crying every night from 7-9 at night and was literally inconsolable. We realized that if we get her down before that, we totally bypass the fussiness. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212534 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:46:48 +0000 erinpye 212534@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6 weeks we started putting her down at around 8. Now she is 3 months and is ready for bed by 7-7:30 and goes down easily after bath time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212393 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:24:15 +0000 Rubies 212393@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started having real bedtimes when LO was 2 months old. It wasn't truly set until 3.5 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212290 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:50:59 +0000 regberadaisy 212290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not until 7/8 weeks no matter how early I started her "routine" she would not fall asleep earlier! Finally I started to notice she won't fall asleep till 9/10 pm. So I gradually moved her routine 30mins later till we came to a happy medium where she was not fussing and I was not getting frustrated.<br /> Generally I've been starting her routine at 8 since about 7/8 weeks. She'll be 10 on Saturday but this week I notice her start to fuss around 7:30. So hopefully she's telling me she's ready to go to bed earlier??? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212233 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:31:42 +0000 Weagle 212233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started around one month. Like @ElisaT: we just noticed when she started sleeping long stretches and used that as our bedtime. We usually get her down between 8:30-9. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212216 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:27:32 +0000 littleveesmommy 212216@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I started realizing around 3-4 weeks that LO starts her longer periods of sleep around 8-9pm. At that point her daytime naps were 30 minutes to 1.5 hours during the day but every day for a week she would start a 2-3 hour sleep stretch at around 830 so I took that as her internal bedtime and tried to start a bedtime routine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212162 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:12:11 +0000 Andrea 212162@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think we had a pretty consistent bedtime around 1 month. It was somewhere between 5 and 6 pm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212160 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:11:27 +0000 chopsuey 212160@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think we were on a schedule until LO was.. 2.5-3 months old?<br /> It's all a blur! Scary that I have to go through all of it again in a few months! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-using-bedtimes#post-212152 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:09:24 +0000 mediagirl 212152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When did you move from just feeding your infant every 2-3 hours to having a specific bedtime every night? </p>