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both charlie and olive always slept better with an earlier bedtime. right now olive sleeps between 7:00 - 7:30, but her bedtime used to be 6:00 - 6:30. She sleeps through the night and wakes up anywhere from 5:30 - 6:30 these days. I nurse her and she goes back down anywhere from 1-3 hours.

your lo might start sleeping longer at night with an earlier bedtime. it's counter intuitive, but it really does work for most babies!

@PurpleUnicorn: Does your LO go back to bed shortly after waking at 6/7? DD didn't start STTN until she was a year old, and now she goes to bed around 7 and gets up at 7. Do you have any blackout curtains? That might help to keep your LO sleeping in a little later.

She is asleep at or before 7pm every night. She gets up maybe once a night. She has never been up for the day before 5:30am. She would normally sleep past 6 if we let her. Last night she slept from 6-6:30. Amazing.

@PurpleUnicorn: not at all. First time ever she has slept that long. We have had a 7pm bedtime since she was 3 months old. It has helped us because we go to bed early and need to get up early. I hear you on not being able to go back to sleep - that's my husband. I usually can conk back out pretty quickly.

We put our LO's (16 weeks) down between 7-7:30pm. At 9:45-10pm, we dream feed them, which usually gets us to about 6 or 6:30am. They do tend to rouse around 5am, but they'll take a paci and go right back to sleep.
Sleeping in is a thing of the past for us, but I'll take early wake-up calls if it means they STTN!

C's bedtime is between 6:30-7 and she wakes up usually between 7:30 and 8:30. From about 6 months until 9 months, she slept 6/6:30 until 8/8:30am.

She started sleeping in later when we put her down earlier.

@PurpleUnicorn: I know exactly what you mean! A is definitely ready for bed by about 8pm but it's usually 10.30pm by the time we get her down for the night I'm so exhausted and don't get any me time at all. Let me know if you figure it out, lol.

C goes to bed between 6:30-7:30p-- she usually wakes up to nurse around 11p, 2a, and 6a. She's 8 months old.

The past few days, she has been waking up at 1a, 4a, and 6a.

Miss A is in generally in bed at around 1930 and wakes any time between 0330 & 730.

@Mrs. Chen: we actually didn't formally sleep train. ds went thru the usual nb sleep cycles...around 6 weeks we reswaddled him to transition sleeping in pnp and crib from a newborn lounger/cosleeping (tsk tsk), we followed a loose eat play sleep cycle and his nb bedtime of 11/12 slowly moved up to 830 during the second month. he settled into a pretty decent routine of sleeping 830-230 nurse then back down for another 4 hours or so.... then the third month we had a random couple of weeks of 2+ wakeups. On random night during week 11, I unswaddled him, then the following week, we/he nightweaned, a few days later he STTN (12 weeks), he slept 7-7 pretty consistently for three weeks when we hit the 4 mth regressino for a few days, but since then he's been sleeping 730-630 give or take a half hour.

he's been a good sleeper and we're extremely fortunate. i know that during the transitions, what helped was turning off the monitor volume and only going in when we heard him whimper from the room. all the other times, he'd always put himself back to sleep. a couple nights of paciing/a couple nights of him finding his thumb... we'll get random early wakeups sometimes if he goes to bed too late. but i think he's naturally fallen into this night sleep cycle.

She sleeps 7 pm to 7 am. We are very lucky.

They sleep 7-5:30, eat, then back to sleep until 8ish- they're 4 months.

LO is almost 4 months and does 7 to 7. We actually get her up on weekdays. She lets us sleep in on weekends until 8. She must just be sleepy like her parents!

I had the same worry when I started putting DD down early, but people aren't lying when they say that babies sleep better with an earlier bedtime. Totally counter-intuitive, right? Our daughter sleeps 7:30 - 7:30 on average.

I put DD down between 6:30 and 7:30, and she will sleep for 8 hours feed then go back to sleep until about 7am. For me, her getting more sleep at night, ie 12 hours, is more important that her sleeping through. I would much rather put her to bed earlier so she can sleep longer that put her to bed later just so she slept through completely.

@pastemoo: are you till having sleep issues? Maybe I can suggest a few tips for you... What's your child's age?? Is your child a restless sleeper? Any allergies, excema?? What do daytime naps look like ( how long are they? How many?)

LO's bedtime is usually around 7:45pm, and he generally sleeps till about 7am. There a few nights where we'll get behind, and he'll go to bed after 8pm (sometimes as late as 8:30 if we're out to dinner or something like that), but we find that he typically sleeps better with an earlier bedtime. 7:45pm (and no later than 8:00) seems to be the best bedtime for now at least.