Bed time for a 2 month old!
Hi all! What time does everyone put their 2 month olds to bed?!? I’m finding by 7.30/8 she’s really fussing. No matter what we do, we could rock her to sleep downstairs and she’d sleep for a minute and wake up crying again. The past few days she’s gone to bed around 8.30 after a battle for an hour, sometimes slightly longer- And she is lights out! But is that too early? She isn’t up at the crack of dawn crying either! I just don’t want to feel I’m forcing too much sleep but honestly nothing we do settles her in the evening until she goes to bed! This is my first baby and bed times confuse me. Thankyou xx
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Honestly just do whatever works! Mine tends to sleep for the ‘night’ ie the longest stretch, at 10.30pm so thats when we all go to bed. He usually feeds loads from 8-10pm in the lead up! My toddler is usually asleep at 8.30pm so this kind of works at the min. At this age it doesnt really matter tbh its whatever suits you
We go by feeding cues, its usually anywhere between 9pm and 11pm.
He'll have his bottle at like 6 or 7pm, then have a small wake window. We'll have a contact nap for a couple hours, or as long as he wants, he will not go down at all in this period.
And then as soon as he starts to stir, we get the next bottle ready, take him to bed, change him, and put him in sleeping bag for that bottle which he falls asleep on and we can easily put him down in next2me then.
Research witching hours in babies. It’s a thing. 8.30pm-11pm my dreamy little boy turns into an absolute demon, found some really good tips online tho xx
Mine starts feeling sleepy just before 8 and I csn sometimes push out to just before 9..
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