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When DD was that little, I was like you. It would take up to an hour to get her down. Or, a car ride.

My baby started to put herself to sleep around 8 weeks! She stops latching when she is full, I wipe her gums down and then I put her in the crib. She sucks her thumb for a minute or two and then she is out.

Around 13 weeks, I was able to start putting N down in his crib awake at night. He usually goes right to sleep, like he did tonight. Naps are still a battle though. I hate when it takes 45 minutes to get him to nap and then he wakes up 20 minutes later!

@sslm: LOL I thought the same thing about the gums--I don't do that!

We usually bathe her at 8 and she is asleep by 8:45-9.

I was always very lucky with this--every once in a while it would be hours but usually 15-30 minutes from 3 months to now (16 months). Bedtime has been the one part of parenting that we lucked out. He was born on bedtime easy street.
Night wakings are a whole nother ball game.

From 0-3 months we just put him down when he was sleepy so there was no "bedtime" to speak of. I mean... maybe it was 30 seconds.

@Foodnerd81: I think that;s probably pretty good. Now bedtime involves LOTS of reading. So if I was game, it could last hours--but I'm usually only good for 3-6 books or a few pages of poems.

Currently it takes me all night. He just refuses to sleep! We start our routine at 7, he's in bed by 8, but he's awake for hours.

It used to take anywhere from 20-30 min (just the time to get him to go to sleep). Now it takes about 5 min, I sing him a song and put him down awake. Our whole routine is about 20 minutes total (bath, boob, book, bed).

@Foodnerd81: my baby is 10 weeks tomorrow and my husband puts her to bed every night. We do bath, lotion, pjs, then bottle and burp-- sometimes she's out by the time the burping is over so he'll swaddle her and put her in the crib already asleep. Other times, she's still awake, so he'll swaddle first after the burping and hold her upright patting her for a few minutes till she drops off. Usually only 15 minutes or so. He's really good at getting her down.

Naps during the day are a different story. She's still not on any schedule (I tried and gave up on that when it became apparent she was not ready to fall into a schedule).

Pretty much the only thing that's routine is the 7:30 bath and asleep by 8. But that's when she's tired anyway.

At that age about an hour! Nursing, rocking/bouncing, swaddle, burp. Now at 7 months I'm down to about 30 minutes. I do put him down awake but he needs to be drowsy enough so it just takes the time that it takes.