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I think at that age you can change all at once. We sleep trained at 13 weeks, went from putting them down at 8:30-9 to 6:30. We did a dream feed at 9:30 and they'd sleep thru until 6:30. At that age they're not generally on a super schedule anyway. In my experience that's a highly adaptable age, but of course every baby is different! Good luck!

@Pumpkin Pie: We did an earlier bedtime after the 4 month sleep regression. Up until that point, he slept at 7pm, woke up at 10 pm to eat, again at 4 a.m. and then up at 8 a.m. for the day.

After the regression, we noticed he slept longer periods at night and since he was sleepy at 7 p.m. anyways, we went with it as bedtime, and it's been that way every since!

@Pumpkin Pie: Do you do a bedtime routine? We started a bedtime routine at 4 weeks, and it seemed to signal to him that it was time for bed. It was bath, bottle, song and bed.

Your LO might still wake up afterward, but we treated like a middle of the night wakeup, and would just feed with no light and no talking and put him back to bed. Eventually it started to work.

When time does your LO wake up from their last nap before the 7 p.m. nap?

@Pumpkin Pie: I say go for it! I think she will eventually "get" that 7 p.m. is bedtime. Our LO woke up around 11ish for a bit, but then he did a 7 p.m. bedtime, 4:00 a.m. wakeup to eat and then 7:00 a.m. wakeup time for quite some time.

At 12 months, we are at 7 p.m. bedtime still, sometimes a 4:30 a.m. wake-up (ugh - that's recent) and wake-up time of 6:00 a.m.. The 6 a.m. is also recent. I think we are going through a 12 month regression/learning how to walk phase. Up until a few weeks ago it was consistently 7 a.m.

@Pumpkin Pie: leave lights off and treat it as a MoTN waking. I am in the camp of never wake a sleeping baby! It's always worked for us, but you know your baby best! Try it for a few nights... If she wakes up late ready to party you can always go back to what works! I wouldn't be too worried about trying, honestly everything will get messed up soon anyways if you hit the 4 month sleep regression! Good luck.

@Pumpkin Pie: When we've done any kind of routine change (moving bedtime, dropping a nap, dropping a middle of the night feed, etc.) we've had much more luck doing it all at once than trying to drag it out. Dragging it out seems to just extend the misery. Doing it all at once takes a night or two but then she adjusts OK.

Just a heads up on your timing- my experience has been my daughter sleeps the same total amount at night when we moved her bedtime. So if you move her bedtime back from 9 to 7:30, she'll get up an hour and a half earlier than she had been. In your question it seemed like you only want her to get up one hour earlier, so you might want to only move bedtime by an hour. Just throwing it out there.

@Pumpkin Pie: We followed Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins pretty closely (Happy Child is the other version), and he suggests that three months is the age when bedtime should be moved earlier. 6:30 was chosen by the babies...one night they were just SO fussy at 5:30 we gave them a bath to calm down, then they both passed out while taking their 6:00 bottle...we tried repeating the next night and again, 6:30! They are almost 2 and that remains the bedtime. Several twin mamas suggested that the reason they were so fussy from 4-8 was that bedtime needed to be earlier.

Since you have been so consistent with your LOs bedtime routine, I think she would know that it is bedtime even if you start it at 7:30 instead of 9. If she should wake up soon after you may want to treat it as a middle of the night wake up. I have the opposite problem that you do. My LO wakes up too early. He started daycare two weeks ago. By the time my DH drops him off, his awake time is +2hrs. I hope your LO's new bedtime works out.