Question about putting the baby to bed

[LCLake]

Right now I'm feeding Kylah every three hours 6 times a day. That's the schedule she got on herself. Obviously if she needs to eat sooner than that I do. It ends up that her last feeding is at 11:00pm. I was wondering if anyone can give me advice as to when I stop that 11:00 feeding and put her to bed after her 8:00 feeding?? I'm nervous that if I do that she'll wake up at 4:00am. She's been sleeping through the night since she was 5 weeks and sometimes I have to wake HER up at 8:00am.

She's almost 11 weeks now, so at what age do you start putting her to bed earlier?

[JoyLynn]

If you're okay with letting her cry herself back to sleep, you can start puttling her to bed an hour earlier until she adapts, and then moving up another hour, etc... I notice that my kids ate more durnig their feedings and easily made up for the ones they missed while sleeping. [baby]

Good luck. :)


Joy [welcomewave]

[emilyrosejewel]

I would make sure she feeds at least six times during the day. May be feed her earlier or cut the amount of time between one of the feedings to make sure she is getting enough food. Justice is now eating 5x a day and he is 10 mos. old. He is breastfed and about a month and a half ago he cut out one of his feedings.

[soulmom]

my ds is 20 wks old and he still does that. he nurses around 10 and goes down for the night and sleeps till anywhere between 6:30 and 8am. some mornings he's up early if my almost 4 yo makes too much noise when he gets up at the crack of dawn or if he poops right away in the morning.

i wouldn't stress it at all. your baby will let you know when the timing is right. i think maybe once you start feeding cereal in a couple months you could probably try to adjust bed time and get a reliable routine going.

[7thHeaven]

Maybe try moving the feeding times up gradually or feeding more during each feeding.

[LCLake]

ya, I guess I'll know when the time's right. And I like the idea of starting the bedtime routine once I start Kylah on cereal. It'll be nice for my husband and I to have our evenings together again! Although, it'll be harder for us to cart her around once she goes to bed earlier... :(

[tracy]

I wouldn't worry too much either. I would try to start each feeding a little earlier until you find a good fit. My dd slept through the night in the beginning as well. I just went with the flow, but as someone else said, keep at least 6 feedings a day.
BTW, I was wondering why cereal would help get a night routine?

[JoyLynn]

My four ate every three hours during the day and slept for 12 hrs at night starting at three weeks old. I did help them along with that quite a bit. Every fam does it the way that works best for them. That's just how I really wanted to do it and my babies were the happiest. :D


Joy [welcomewave]

[soulmom]

BTW, I was wondering why cereal would help get a night routine?

it doesn't really mean that it will for sure start a night routine. it's really up to the parents and wether or not you have a baby that will cooperate. i may be wrong, but i think most people start cereal at an evening mealtime so in general, it's something that is done every day and with that it should be easier to establish a pattern of something like eat, play, wind down(like a book), nurse, and then sleep for the night... or whatever works best for you and your baby