Wake and sleep schedule

My LO has a late bedtime, it went from 1AM and is now between 10:45-11:45PM.. I’ve found that if I give him a bath after his last feed, put in his pjs, sleep suit and mittens (controversial) with some lullabies and give him a cuddle for a couple of songs before putting him in the next to me while playing pink noise he is out like a light. I’m gradually trying to get his bedtime earlier and earlier, I cap his day time naps to 2 hours max (usually his naps are roughly 40mins to an hour but can vary) and try and make sure he is full through the day so he needs less in the night. He might wake for 1 feed around 4am but mostly he sleeps through until 8ish, then goes right back to sleep until between 10-11am.. 🤷🏽‍♀️
I use the huckleberry app to keep everything logged and it gives advice too.. eventually I’m hoping to wake him earlier in the day and have him in bed earlier too 🤞🏽

Sorry no real advice as my LO doesn’t have a routine. I just go off her ques. She is usually fed to sleep or rocked to sleep at about 8/9 o clock depending on how tired she is then she sleeps for a good stint (it differs night to night though) then has a feed and straight back to sleep within 10/20mins. She wakes once or twice per night.

Whereas my first born literally woke up every 2 hours without fail and took ages to get back to sleep. We also didn’t have a routine for him and he’s still a bad sleeper.

It really does depend on the baby. As with adults we all sleep differently. I would just say if you EBF maybe express and get your partner to do a feed during the night. That’s what I done with my first to let me have a little bit of rest

Have you considered expressing and trying feeding a bottle at bedtime (I get you might not want to if EBF) my LB takes much bigger volumes this way, he would just be too cosy and fall asleep if BFing, he's currently sleeping 8-9 hours as his first stretch then another 3/4.
We do bathtime at 6.30pm with my toddler, then PJs, book, bottle, bed for 7.30/8 (obviously takes me longer with two)

Please don't despair, some babies do just wake a little more in the night and it's nothing you are doing. They're all so young atm that they will change constantly! My first was an awful sleeper in first year but has a toddler is now a bullet proof sleep through the nighter and we never thought we'd see that! 'Everything's a phase' is the best advice I was given first time round. What I would say though is managing naps and wake windows can help a lot. In terms of eve routine, I'm aware with second that herast wake window currently pretty much always 1h45. So I start bed time 45 mins before this. Any later she gets over tired and crys a lot and is harder to.put down. Eve routine is: upstairs to quiet (away from toddler) 45 miss before bed (normally 6:15ish but varies). Bathtime, change into sleepsuit. Red light/ white noise on in our bedroom. Breast feed for as long as she wants in low light. She's normally still quite awake at this point so then I rock for a bit and then feed again then she starts to settle

I should add we then swap and my partner does then contact nap with her on our bed fir another half hour or so whilst I put toddler to bed. I think this helps before she goes in cot so she's properly sleep. She is far from a bullet proof sleeper lol but does tend to do a longer stretch at beginning of night between 4-6hours which is what you were asking. Will then wake 1-2 times more (atm, sure it'll change again!!) For a feed in early morning x

It's definitely just down to temperament,in the last week my baby has suddenly decided his bedtime is 7-7.30 and he gets really grumpy if he's not asleep by then. It's genuinely nothing we've done. We do family dinner at 6, bath, play, night nappy on, PJ's and sleep bag on around 6.30. feed and then hopefully he falls asleep on the boob, sometimes he doesn't and needs rocking to sleep. He sleeps until 5, has a feed and then goes back to sleep until I wake him at 8am.

I should stress we have only started doing this since he's shown clear sleepy cues at 7pm and been telling us he wants to go to bed. He is struggling with daytime naps now, it's really hard to get him down and they don't last long, I think he's figuring out day time sleep still after suddenly doing long overnight stretches

Thank you so much ladies! Feeling a lot better, I might also try to express and give her a bottle before bed to see if it helps!

We get a good 5-6 hour stretch at the beginning of the night. Our sleep routine is super simple. Nappy change, fresh pjs, low lighting (I have a red night light), and noise machine. Also Black out curtains is a must. Then it's swaddle/sleep sack and sing/rock for a few minutes. I use a dummy too for sleep. I dont have a set bedtime, but generally falls around 8/8:30, based on last nap. If I try any earlier she just wakes after an hour or fights it. This is my 2nd baby after a baby who co slept and never slept more than 40 min and constantly needed the boob at night! For this one, I've been focusing on getting good wake windows and naps during the day as well as full feeds in the day as much as possible. Highly recommend @takingcarababies on Instagram for her tips!! It's worked so well for us!

We do bath time between 8 and 8:30, baby massage (no nappy) bed clothes on, then take her to our bedroom, put on a star projector do a few little stretches, into sleep bag, nurse for about 45 mins transfer to bed, (bed usually around 9:30) she then will sleep between 6-8h before a 20 min feed where she will then transfer back to bed for another 4 hours or so xx

EBF mum here, I started puting baby girl to bed around 7pm, occassionally later. I don't do any pre bedtime routine. For example today right now (6pm) I am feeding, then we will have a little play with toys and tummy time in the baby gym. Then baby will have a shower(we don't bathe) new nappy and I will breastfeed her to sleep in our bed as every night, with a little red light on. Once she sleeps which is usually 40mins, I will transfer her to her cot. She stays asleep for minimum 6hrs, at times 9+. I then feed her again in our bed after a nappy change and the 2nd night stretch is usually rubbish 😆 She sleeps, but I don't. She moves a lot and got active sleep.