ANY TIPS ON HOW TO MAKE THE BABY GO TO BED EARLIER??

[kusumat]

My baby is 6 months old and do not go to bed until 10:30pm. She has slept through the night(8-10 hours) since 4 months old. I have been trying to put her to bed at the earlier time but failed. She normally has two naps during the day one in the morning(8-10) and one in the afternoon(1-3). We daily give her a bath at 6pm after her solid food meal. She falls asleep around 7pm and wakes up again around 7:30-8pm. Any suggestions? Thank you.

[danagee]

What does she do when she wakes up? Can u just leave her alone and allow her to fall back asleep?
Are you using any methods? We use this book and it's been great.

http://tinyurl.com/uw67t


Dana
ds 8/04 * dd 1/06

[Java]

DD is 6.5m and we went through a period where she'd wake up crying every 30-45 minutes until she conked out for good at 10:30-11pm. Her bedtime then was 8:00-8:30pm. We then moved her bedtime to 7:00-7:30pm and it got a little better -- meaning she started waking up every 45-60 minutes and then conked out at 11:00pm.

There wasn't anything we could do except nurse and rock her back to sleep. For some reason the past few nights she's gone down and stayed down. I don't know what changed -- maybe developmental, she's starting to crawl now -- but I hope she continues with this trend.

So I have no suggestions but wish you luck!

Actually, I just noticed that there's a big chunk of time from the last nap to bedtime. My DD can't go that long in between - she gets overtired and will for sure wake up constantly. If she woke up at 3pm, then I'd give her a cat nap at 5:00 and bedtime would be at 7:30pm. DD's window is 2 to 2.5 hours of waking time. Maybe try that and see if your DD gets better.

[Momof3Labs]

ITA, plus the solids could be giving her tummy troubles. Try giving her solids for breakfast and skipping the dinner solids for a little while. Or stop solids for a couple of weeks and see if it gets better.

At that age, my DS1 was going to bed at 5:30-6pm.

ETA: When she wakes up at 7:30pm, keep the house quiet and dark, don't talk to her, etc. No lights either! She'll get the idea more quickly that it is time to sleep, not to wake up.

[KrisM]

DD is about 6 months, too. She can not go from 3pm to 7pm without another nap. Usually, she'll do a third nap at about 4:30 or 5pm. Then, she'll go to bed about 7 for the night. But, if for some reason she doesn't get that last nap, she'll be ready for bed about 6:30 and often she'll wake up at 9 or so for 1-2 hours. It's an overtired thing, I think.

Try shortening up the awake times.

[connors_mommy]

My DS is almost 4 mos...i don't have a problem getting him to bed by 7pm, he never was one to stay up late. At first he would wake up 1-2 hrs after I put him down. He isn't the best napper during the day so sometimes he's overtired so I have to give him a nap around 4 or 5, he's been waking up again at night so i'm wondering if it's an overtired thing. I would just try a good routine and stick to it. I do the same thing everynight and at the same time. Talk while getting udressed, he layes in crib while I get bath and bottle ready, bathe time, jammies, bottle, bed...same thing everynight, I think he gets used to it and knows what's coming next. He rarely fusses at all and I always put him in his crib awake, hoping it will help him learn to put himself to sleep without my help. Good Luck.