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At what age are we starting a bedtime routine and what are we doing? Baby 6 weeks currently
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Right now they don’t know the difference between day and night so I wouldn’t start a bedtime routine yet. With both of mine we introduced a loose routine at about 3-4 months.
I think we were late for a bed time routine haha. We didn’t start one until the 4m sleep regression hit. He would just go to bed whenever we went to bed in the beginning. So like 10:30-11pm lol.
Like, 4/5 months? It was easier just to go with the flow for us as they’re still so up and down, you can risk getting fixated on whether you had a ‘good’ bedtime etc whereas that isn’t really a thing so early on.
When we did introduce one it was bath, bottle with story, cuddle to sleep.
Lol this is good to know as I have a 6 week old and I was getting stressed that I haven't done a bedtime routine yet
With our first we didn't until he was like a year, maybe even later.
I do a bedtime routine from the day we get home from hospital as a mum of 5 I thrive off routine and so do my boys x
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At what age are we starting a bedtime routine and what are we doing? Baby 6 weeks currently
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