Can anyone recommend a good bedtime routine and do you self soothe or rock to sleep ? We have to rock our little girl to sleep every night as she refuses to self soothe but I’m exhausted by the time she goes to bed and I have no evening to myself. Am I just getting carried away with wanting the evening to myself 🙈
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Not at all. We try to start the routine around 6pm - bath, bottle and then I put my little girl down in her crib with her dummy and Ewan the sheep (white noise). She is normally asleep within a few mins

We do bath, bottle (even if he’s not due one) bed. However he got himself into a bit of routine when he was 6 weeks of going to sleep straight after his 9pm bottle for 3 hours so we rolled with it and he’s gradually got earlier and earlier. Goes down now at about 7:30/8 just depending on his naps during the day x

I don’t think there is any magic formula but so far what seems to work for me is
Bed time 9pm
Play before this to get her tired
Bottle or breast at 9 when she’s relaxed and in sleep suit. I read her a book and she falls asleep on me. If she’s crying I stick on baby sensory music. I then transition her beside me (co sleeping) as she won’t go in her snuzpod. She will then wake at some point between 3-5 for a feed and then sleep through to 9 or 10am. She’s 4 months on Tuesday so worried we will have 4 month sleep regression that I see all over instagram. I don’t know if this is a good routine but I’m getting sleep which I don’t in the first month.

We start around 7 - baby girl has settled on a bedtime around 7.45. Bath or top and tail, baby massage, boob, then books and cuddles until she's getting droopy eyelids. Then into cot with dummy and white noise and she drifts off pretty quickly.
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