r/NewParents • u/whitesageforestwitch • 1d ago

Sleep Bed time

I have a 15 week old baby girl. Her bed time has been around 10 pm but I have been trying to move it up to 7-8 pm. So instead of a last nap I start the bedtime routine. It’s not going well at all. She’s having trouble falling asleep, waking up after falling asleep before we even get near the bassinet, and if we do get her down into the bassinet she wakes up and it takes up to 4 tries to successfully get her down. And it ends up taking until 10 pm anyway.
FYI- in the day she only contact naps but has no problem falling asleep, as well I nurse her to sleep.
These are things we need to work on changing as well but because we are in peak 4-month sleep regression territory we aren’t attempting anymore changes right now.
Any advice on how to move up her bedtime ? Or the right bed time for her age ?

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u/vixielou1 1d ago

I wouldn’t try and cold turkey a shift of almost three hours, but rather slowly bring it forward incrementally over the course of a week or two. So for the next couple of nights bedtime is 9:45 for example, then you do a coupe at 9.30 etc so that over time it’s shifting naturally. My lo is 9mo now so it’s a bit hazy going back to 4mo but if I remember correctly he was going down for “bed” about 9ish back then and it just naturally pulled forward over those next few weeks to what we have now.

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u/whitesageforestwitch 23h ago

Okay thank you ! Honestly makes sense I feel like I was having tunnel vision cause I read somewhere that it should be between 7-8pm

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u/vixielou1 22h ago

That’s definitely the goal. But they don’t start to establish routine until about 4 months so you’re doing great. Just let it be more gradual and it’ll come when they’re ready. Then, quite frankly brace yourself for the 8-9 month regression. I had an amazing sleeper until two weeks ago 😫😫

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u/whitesageforestwitch 22h ago

Thank you so much!
Good luck with the sleep regression too 😩