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We started a night time routine when we started doing baths every night, so IIRC, it was around 3 months or so. Before that we were only doing baths every couple of days and there was too much variation in our day.

Around 6 months, I started changing my son out of his sleeper in the morning, before that, I'd change him when he got it dirty, lazy mom!

We started a routine around 5 weeks. At that time, we weren't bathing LO every day, but we would start to quiet down/dim the lights around 8 or so and she eventually began to associate that with the first stretch of nighttime sleep. At that time she started out the evening in her swing or bouncy chair, too.

Then around 6 weeks we started bathing her every night, just to set the routine. We would put her in the bath around 7:00, massage her with her Burt's Bees lavender lotion, put her pajamas on and give her a bottle. She would sleep from about 8:00pm until my husband work her up for a "dream feed" around midnight. Then she would sleep until 6 or 7am the next morning. She still started off the night in the swing before being transferred to the bassinet.

We didn't make the transition from swing to crib until about 12 weeks and now we're pretty set in our routine. The only thing we need to work on in the coming weeks is dropping the "dream feed". I think she's ready, but I'm a little afraid to mess with our routine since she's doing so well. That said, I think babies adapt pretty well!

So in short, I think you can start setting a routine in small ways any time - just don't expect too much too soon, but know that every bit helps and it's never too early to start.

I think we started right away. Our routine was always changing into pajamas before bedtime (or what I wanted bedtime to be in the early days) in the nursery with dimmed lights. I want to add storytime to bedtime soon!

We didn't really get started until LO was about 5 months old. I usually give her a bath, baby lotion massage, change into PJs, and put on her sleep sack. We then sit in the glider and I'll read or sing her a song, nurse her, and then rock for about 15-30 minutes until she's drowsy enough to go down w/out a complaint. Many times though, our routine gets shaken up by life so I've learned to be pretty flexible and just keep it as close as possible (for example, we were out tonight and didn't get home till later so no bath or book).

We started around 4 weeks, when we noticed she started sleeping a really long stretch around the same time every night. Our routine is bath (every other night), lotion, diaper, pjs, and nursing/bottle while reading a book. We've kept the same routine, but moving it earlier over time.

Around 3 ish months we stared to try a routine. It's was hard because they grow so much and their needs change so quickly. Now at almost 6 months we have a pretty well set routine.

we started right away but her bedtime didn't start being more consistent until around 3 months. before that her bedtime was based on when she woke up from her last nap.