DS is 2.5 and DD is 4 weeks. I seem to have amnesia about the early days! When is best to start working on some kind of evening routine? Right now she just hangs out while we watch Making a Murderer until it's time to got to bed 
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Around 5-6 weeks. But it was later in the evening and I went to bed at the same time as him
Bath. Lotion. Jammies. Bottle of pumped milk. Swaddle. Into rock and play and we rocked it a bit until he dozed off.
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We just started one last week at about 7 weeks. I nurse him and bounce him on the ball then once he's sleeping we swaddle him and into the Rock n play. Hoping to take out the bouncing soon!! Annnd start the crib transition.
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@maybebaby: I have newborn amnesia too. Right now "bedtime" is when I change her diaper and swaddle her up tight before nursing her and hoping she will sleep for a long time. The rest of the day she usually nurses un swaddled. And we watch Narcos or Homeland during this bedtime. With C it was Breaking Bad. Quality children's television.
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6 weeks? Bath, lotion, jammies, milk, sing two songs, prayers, blackout curtains, white noise machine. DS was colicky and had reflux so he never stayed down long but we just did it every night and every theoretical nap (minus bath) to build a sleep association. Bedtime was 730pm, which didn't really stick until 12 weeks but I'm sure helped.
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I can't quite remember either, but I think it was around 8 weeks? Bath, jammies, nurse, swaddle, bounce until drowsy, and into crib.
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Not sure if it counts but jams, nurse, bottle, bed. Kind of no frills. She's 10 mo- been doing this from week one. She goes to bed at the same time every night.
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6 weeks. We start at 8. Bath, lotion, jammies, swaddle, nurse, story read by dad, nurse again, and into the RNP. When we take her in her nursery after her bath the lights are dimmed and the white noise is already going. Before we started the routine she was waking every couple hours and staying up for long stretches at night. After the routine she started sleeping 4 hour stretches, then 6-7. She will Sttn on ocassion now at 12 weeks.
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You can start as early as you like. I think we got serious about it around 3 months, when she started needing an actual bedtime (as opposed to just passing out in whatever room we were in and sleeping there until we moved into the bedroom and put her in the co-sleeper).
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6 weeks I think? It's all a bit of a blur.
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From day 1. The time fluctuated a bit, but every single night we didn't the whole bath/lotion/reading/feeding routine to signal that it was night/bedtime.
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With #1 maybe about 6 weeks? In some ways we had a routine from about a week. With #2 he's 12 weeks and still isn't consistent only because we don't always get dd down the exact same time (holidays, lots of things going on, and we've been out of town staying with my parents too) and were falling into something of a routine now. His night sleep still gradually extended and became routine on its own, but his longest stretch is still six hours max. (He can fall asleep on his own sometime and usually at night but chub chub likes to eeeeaaaat so no sttn here..)
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Tbh even though our better sleeper was the one with the routine I really don't think a long bedtime routine made a huge difference. With #2 the things that seem to matter are the environment changes- swaddled in his sleep sack (swaddle weaning now), dark room, etc. You can tell his sleep changes to "night sleep." It has been nice to not stress SO much about it although I think we'll be more consistent the older he gets.
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At 5 weeks, the health visitor told us we should be putting her to bed in our room, the going back downstairs for the evening. I told DH she was ridiculous (!) but a week later we tried it and it worked really well. So 6 weeks.
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@Cherrybee: for real??
We started this a month ago and DS is 6 weeks now. Go upstairs around 930. Nurse, bottle, story in our bed, swaddle, down in the halo bassinest beside our bed, white noise, cloud b turtle star projection. He goes in drowsy but awake and when we turn off the lights he sleeps from about 10-7 with one wake up between 2-3 am. This is just down this week from two wake ups. Yay!
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Around 3 months?! I think..... lol
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With lo1, around 6 weeks. This time, we started "putting her to bed" in our room around 8 weeks. That's instead of nursing her and holding her while we watch tv in the living room. And our show this time has been Transparent! With LO1 it was homeland
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@Foodnerd81: it was breaking bad and mad men w/ j
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W Lo1 I think we started regular bath time at 3 weeks. But didn't really have a daily routine until closer to 5/6 weeks.
LO2 has been in a bedtime routine since 2/3 weeks beceause we were doing bathtimes with his big bro's nighttime routine, and we thankfully glossed over the witching hour this time!
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We started at 2 months/8 weeks. It got us ready for when I had to go back to work!
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6-8 weeks? I forget. Our routine hasn't really changed either and DS is almost 2.5.
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Honestly, we never started a routine with T. We just hang out and when it's bedtime, i nurse him and plop him down
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2.5 weeks, and while not a real routine I change G into a sleep gown or PJs at the same time we're getting E into PJs. I nurse her while we read bedtime stories and sing songs and put E to bed, then I swaddle her and nurse her to sleep and put her in the RnP in the living room, where she sleeps for about 4 hrs.
I didn't put E onto a schedule for a really long time and I regret it. D is going back to work soon and I'm going back not long after that, so I want to try to get some sort of routine in place (D works second shift, so he won't be here for bedtime...)
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Maybe around 2-3 months?
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Around 6 weeks? I think that's when we started having a routine, though it's still not always at the same time now at 3 months. The routine is: dim lights, diaper change with singing, pajamas/sleep sac, white noise, nurse/bottle in glider, into crib.
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