Bedtime Routine

My LO is just over 6 weeks old and we’ve found she’s starting sleeping about 7-8 hour stretches at night. We have always fed on demand and never set any routine but she seems to have settled into a routine of feeding about 6/7pm and then will wake about 2/3am and then go again for another 4 hours.

How can I adjust her bedtime so she goes to sleep about 9/10pm so we can get an undisturbed night sleep.

I know we are so lucky for her to have this routine this early but would like to see if possible to move her routine back.

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Honestly? I'd just enjoy it. I know that's not particularly what you want to hear 😂 but their sleep changes a lot as they grow- you could amend the schedule and have more wake-ups, earlier mornings, less success with naps etc etc. Or spend time slowly working towards your ideal timings and have the sleep cycle change then all that effort was for nothing. It's very normal for one or more wake ups through the night for a long time. Ours was a very good sleeper but still had one night feed until she was over 1 year old. I just wouldn't start holding out hope for a full night's sleep for a while.

Sounds like you have nailed a routine. Just go with it for now because it WILL change

Yeah as above I wouldn’t change a thing 😅 it’ll happen naturally as naps etc change but otherwise (honestly) I’d just go to bed earlier x

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