How can I move babies bedtime earlier?

So my little girl just turned 5 months and goes to sleep between 10pm to 11pm, at the moment it works for us as she sleeps til 10.30am. But I want my evenings back 🙈
If I put her down any earlier she treats it as a nap and is wide awake ready to play and no matter how hard I try keeping her in the dark, feeding rocking anything she won't go back to sleep til 10/11pm. Any advice on what I can do? The past week I've been waking her up between 8.30/9am and keeping her awake for around hour and a half til her first nap but hasn't made a difference. Thank you x

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I’ve think I remember reading somewhere that you adjust naps & bedtime by about 15 minutes every couple of nights 🤞🏼

It’s when she wakes up for the day that defines when she’ll be ready for bedtime - usually it’s around 12-14 hours since the baby woke up to bedtime given how their circadian rhythm works. You’d need to wake her up earlier if you want her to go to bed earlier, doing it in increments as Megan suggested so baby has a chance to adjust gradually. It won’t happen over a couple of days, give it a little more time and she’ll catch up x PS: what a cutie ❤️

We had the same and went to a sleep therapist for some help and she said we need to be waking baby up at 6am everyday (you can adjust this after a while but first start at 6am) then have 3 1 hour naps during the day and 1 30 min nap at around 4ish and then put to bed around 7/8 and it’s really been working well for us. we now wake him at around 7am and he goes to sleep 6:30-7pm and we will try waking him at 8am in the next few weeks

Thanks all, I knew it would be to do with her waking up but just wasn't sure how to change it or what time to wake her so Thanks so much 😊
We're off to Spain for two weeks tonight, so will start when we're home xx

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