Sleep schedule?

How do i get my 5 week old in a good sleep schedule for the night ? Or is that too early to set a routine?? :/ Currently he wakes up 3-4 times at night.

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A lot of babies can get a good sleep schedule going very early on. However you have to remember that at the 6-month Mark that sleep schedule will change. For my baby who's about 5 and 1/2 months now she slept between 9:30 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. almost every day for the first four and a half months. Then when we started hitting the 5-month mark she started doing what most people call sleep regression. That usually happens because the baby is no longer just surviving the baby is learning. So they don't want to go to sleep because they don't want to miss anything. So if you get baby on a schedule now, it's a good practice for routine but it's not going to stay the same the whole time you're going to have to transition again to a different schedule later. In my experience baby is between birth and about 4 months can get a really good sleep routine going. But then between 4 and 6 months when they start learning it and getting excited to interact with everything else they don't sleep as well at night.

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It is all about routine, and yes, you can get him on a sleep schedule; it is about being in a familiar environment at the same time every day. If he has a crib, a bassinet, or somewhere where he is sleeping, make sure you put him down for a nap or put him to bed at night at the same time every single day. If you are feeding or breastfeeding him, feed him before nap time and then lay him down at the same time every single day. If the nap time during the day is at 1:00, feed him at 12:45 and lay him down at 1:00 every single day; even if he does not go to sleep, it is the routine that matters. At night, if he is going to bed at 7:00, feed him at 6:45 and lay him down at 7:00, and even if he does not go to sleep, it is the routine that matters most.

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Way too early. Waking overnight is normal and expected, there isn't a lot you can do about it at this point I'm afraid

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She had 10 minutes wake ups sometimes. But she slept 8 hours straight many nights in a row. I would have been worried except she's in the 95th percentile for weight. So she was eating just fine.

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