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LO is 9 weeks old today. For the past week or so she has been going down between 8-9 and sleeping until 5:45. She snacks then and falls back asleep for another two hours. We're loving the extra Zs at night, but it has messed up her napping pretty significantly.

Holy cow, my LO is no where near that. She is 8 weeks old and has pretty much no sleep pattern. We have started having her sleep in bed with us because we were so exhausted from battling her to sleep in her crib. Before our bed she was getting up every two hours and having a hard time going back down. Now that she is in our bed she gets up about every four and goes down a lot easier. The other night she did a 7.5 hour stretch in our bed. That is the best she has ever done, and I am sure it is because she was cuddled up with mom.

LO is 10 weeks (will be 11 weeks thursday)-I start her bedtime routine at 8, and she is fed and in bed by 8:45-9. She is sleeping from 9-7:30 every night and has been doing so since about 5 weeks.

I'm curious how those with infants have a set bedtime....how do you keep a set bedtime? Don't you put them to bed right after they eat?

My LO is almost 8 wks. He has pretty much no set pattern yet, but he's small (shy of 9 lbs). He will usually sleep a 4 hour stretch, then a 3.5 hour stretch, then a 2 or 2.5 hour stretch. His first stretch begins anywhere from 8-10 depending on what his daily eating and sleeping pattern was like. He is nowhere near sleeping through the night, apparently!

Last night:

8:30 - 12 slept in swing (we went to bed at 10)
12:45 - 4:45 slept in bassinet
5:15-8 slept in bassinet (but whined hourly)

@regberadaisy: Thanks! I am not going to really try to set a sleep schedule until 3 months or so. He definitely tends to go down for a longer stretch on his own around 9. So, if he is fed and I see sleepy cues right after a feed that is close to 9, I put him down as if he were going to sleep for the night.

Our baby is 3 months. This is her normal sleep schedule:
7:30-8 PM - out for the night
10:30-11 PM - dream feed
2-3 AM - whiny, stick pacifier in mouth (she is right next to our bed in her Pack N Play, so I don't even need to get up)
4:30-5 AM - whiny and hungry - we feed her about 4.5 oz
6 AM - whiny - I pull her into bed with me, and she falls back asleep quickly
8-9 AM - awake for the day

@winniebee: We always feed our baby one more time before putting her down between 7 and 8 PM, regardless of when her last feeding was. Sometimes that means that her bedtime feeding is just a small top-off if she ate recently.

3 y.o. sleeps from 9:30pm - 7:30am to almost 8:30am sometimes. 3.5 month old sleeps from 12am - 12pm (w/two wakings from me to eat). I was told to not wake him but he goes back to sleep so I wake him to nurse him. The late bed time for my 3.5 month old is so that I can have mornings to hang out with my 3 y.o. It's late but works for us for now.