We are getting ready to sleep train & I am doing some small things to make it as painless as possible - basically removing any other variables that could be affecting her sleep. I do think we have been putting her to bed a little late. She has her bedtime feeding at about 8pm & is asleep by 8:30-9. She sleeps until 7-7:30am (with a million wake ups). I'm going to try to move it up to 7:30 feeding & 8pm bedtime, or maybe even earlier. Her last nap usually runs until 5-5:30 though & I feel like any earlier, she won't be hungry & tired yet. Thoughts?
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@daniellemybelle: around 4 months my son was in bed around 6:30 and woke around 6 with 1-2 wakes.
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At 4 months my LO was going to bed around 10, then STTN until 8.
Now at 5 mos she pushed her bed time to 8:00pm and sleeps until 7:30, sometimes with a wakeup now .
I would watch sleep cues closely for the next few days to see if a pattern emerges. Good luck!
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I think for us around 3-ish months we transitioned DD's bedtime to 7:30-8 PM. It wasn't a totally natural transition. She didn't cry much, but we had to give her a lot of help falling asleep for the first week or two. She fell into the new schedule pretty quickly though, and then it was great b/c DH and I could have some alone time in the evening after DD was in bed.
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At 4 months, her bedtime was still between 830 and 9! It took awhile to move it up to the 7-730 time frame that we are at now
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My 4, almost 5 month old babe goes down at 9pm. It's seems late compared to a lot of LOs I hear about online and IRL. But during the first few months, she didn't go to bed until 10-12. So 9pm is a vast improvement! I don't think she'll go to bed any earlier, until she's ready to cut out the evening nap, which probably won't happen soon. She naps around 5:30 or 6:00.
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4 months R went to bed around 730/8. The she moved it up to 7 around 5 months. She rarely sleeps 12 hours.
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LO is just about 3.5 months and goes down between 6:30ish and 7:30ish depending on her last (stupid late) nap and when we wrap up her bedtime stuff.
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We do bath at 7 and are nursing/going to bed by 7:30. Sometimes we've pushed it back if she's napped late, like until 6:30. Sometimes we go earlier if she didn't nap well.
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i would aim for a 7 - 7:30 bedtime if your lo is waking up between 5-5:30pm. Definitely before 2 hours of awake time.
Good luck sleep training! We sleep trained Charlie at 4.5 months and it was forever life changing!
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H is usually in bed by 7:30. Sometimes it gets pushed back to eight if she took a long late nap.
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My LO is 3 months and he goes to bed at 9. My school has a later start time, so we don't leave home until 8:45am. I wake him up around 8:15 after I get ready. Question for everyone (if you don't mind @daniellemybelle) should I expect him to wake up earlier as time goes on and need to move his bedtime earlier? Or if he continues to go down later, will he just sleep his 11-12 hours as he's doing and it won't be an issue?
Honestly, I love his 9pm bedtime because I get more time with him in the evenings AND I can get ready while he's still sleeping in the mornings. As of right now, he has one wake up around 4 or 5, then goes right back to sleep.
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7-7:30 for us.
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At that age bedtime was around 9pm or a little after.
Around 6 months he gradually moved his bedtime earlier. Now at almost 11 months bedtime is 6-6:30.
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@lilteacherbee: That was our schedule pretty much at 3 months! In the last few weeks she has started waking up earlier & getting tired earlier. I miss sleeping in!
@Mrs. Bee: Thank you!!! Your blog posts have been really helpful. I feel like we are doing it "wrong" by sleep training during the 4 month regression but I am really hopeful this will help her sleep better & be an even happier little girl.
I think 2 hrs of wake time makes sense but I don't know that she will be hungry enough to "tank up" for bed if she starts her last feeding 1.5 hrs from her last one? Maybe I should feed her less when she wakes up from her last nap so she'll be hungry? (We nurse & supplement with formula. I usually try to give her more formula before bed to fill her up.)
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