Has anyone got a good sleep routine for their 8 month old baby?

The naps are the worst for us. She refuses to nap and it drives me nuts!! Nights we're OK. If anyone has both easy they're lucky, it always seems to be issues with either bed time or naps

Our approx routine the last few days which seems to be working, wakes 7am ish, nap 9-10am ish, nap 2-3pm bedtime 1830. If he naps too much or not enough he will wake a few times in the night but around 2 hours day sleep seems to be the sweet spot right now to him sleeping through. It's taken a long time to get to this point but slowly naps are on track and they have fixed night sleep. How many naps and for how long are you having

My baby is 9 months now (40weeks) we only transitioned to two naps a day only about a month ago. She only naps for 30/ 40 mins twice a day. Never after 3/4pm so she goes down for bed at 7/8pm. We leave it 3/3.5 hours of wake times between naps and 4/4.5hours of awake time before bed. Before bed, she has a bath, then has a story and a cuddle on my shoulder while listening to some music with some back rubs. She's breastfed, so I hold off on the last feed until she's really tired and ready for bed. She falls asleep feeding now. Sometimes, she wakes up after half an hour for a milk top-up if she's fallen asleep still hungry. Then I give her a dream feed at middnight, or she will wake up for it. Then she sleeps until around 7am. A nice bath before bed always seems to work as it relaxes her now 💕x

We found that little one needs a loooong night time routine to settle down for sleep. About 45 minutes before bedtime we turn off any brighter lights/tv etc and put away all toys (we put on a tidy up song). We get out her books and read for 15 minutes which she’ll either look at with me or just crawl/cruise round the room. Then we take her upstairs and she has a bottle in dim light in her bedroom, then she has a bath (again no big lights). Once she’s bathed, teeth brushed and in pyjamas and sleeping bag, we read one final book (same book every night) together whilst she cuddles and plays with her bedtime teddy, then sing a couple of lullabies and say goodnight to the soft toys in her room before turning off lights and being put down in her cot awake and I leave the room. It’s very lengthy but we found it we put her to bed without a long wind down time she’s cries and takes a long time to settle. We put away toys at 6.30-6.45 and bedtime is 7.15-7.30

do you find if you leave the house between 10-2 like in the car or pram he’ll go to sleep. My issue is she can go the longer wake windows if we’re at home but if I leave the house she’ll snooze and then messes up remaining naps and I cannot be housebound for those hours.

he does snooze more easily in the car or pran, I often time when we are going out with his morning nap to take advantage of that but if I want him to stay awake when in the pram it's definitely much easier than in the car but I walk most places to be fair. 4 hours is a stretch we don't always make it that long. I can't be housebound at all id go insane!

Currently sat here watching my little man rolling around in his cot and babbling and squealing to himself, this has been going on an hour now 🙃 this week has been horrendous!

@Ebony same ! My girl fights her 2nd nap the last few days and ends up being cranky for rest of the evening but sleeps through the night like an angel 😇

she has 2 naps and these are 10am and 2pm and then goes to bed at 7:30 am I putting her to bed too late??? What time does your LO wake up in the morning?