Bedtimes..

Hello, have you tried white noise?

It may help him sleep.

Yes we have a white noise machine :) he used to sleep really well like 4/5 hours first and then 3 after and now it’s every 2 hours.

Hiya, we were super flexible with bedtimes in the first 4 months and our baby only contact napped when breast feeding.

We always used to put him down around the same time we went to bed (10pm) and he slept great. We then slowly moved his bedtime up from 10pm to between 6-7pm over a number of months. It’s tricky but it’s so hard to structure naps and bedtimes when they are so young as catnapping is so common at that age!

Try the huckleberry app, it shows when they should be ready for a nap! Also try getting him ready for a nap like 10/15 mins before he is ready so he knows it’s time to sleep x

I’ve start using the app napper with my girl and it made everything so easy! Her wake window is roughly 2,5-3hrs and I find that if I start preparing her for a nap 20 min earlier then she falls asleep so much easier. Both my kids have been feed & rocked to sleep. First it stressed me out AF but now since I’ve accepted that it’s their preference, the stress vanished. Made peace with it. When I put my babies down I make sure they are really asleep, always let feet or bum touch the cot first, leave a hand on the head/stomach and slowly step away lol. Also some noise machine makes a huge difference! Hope that helps x

Following strict routine was getting me and my LG so stressed so i became really flexible with the bedtime and nap routine for the first 4 months. Just watched my baby closely and reacted on her cues to avoid getting overtired (but it does happen). There were days she went to bed at 5pm and days she went to bed at 10 pm.
She is now 6 months, goes to bed every day at 7:45 (bath at 7:15), sleeps through the night with one feed aprox 3 pm and wakes up aprox 7:30. I didn’t enforce the routine, its what she likes herself. We’ve bedshared since she was around 10 weeks.

Hey, could be worth signing up to the huckleberry app for a month to see if it helps. I did last week with our 3 month old, & have managed to get him down at his nap times before he becomes overtired. You can cancel anytime, they give you a schedule and nap times based on when he wakes up / age / wake windows. It’s helped me, I’ve cancelled it now as I feel more informed & happy to go it alone but it’s really helped get more of a routine in place 😊 x

Mama I feel you. My daughter was like this. Took me 3 hours of sitting in the dark to put her down in January. Now takes at WORST an hour. For her it was just age. It slowly got easier over time. Get your partner to tap in when you have had enough and let them take over. Easier said than done so you get a break

This all sounds age appropriate to me. Their sleep is effected by their development and isn't likely to stay the same throughout their babyhood so it's best to try and remain flexible, if not for your own sanity!