Baby’s bedtime

As much as we try, Georgia will not go to sleep before 10pm. She sleeps great during the day, settles herself or if she has a bit of trouble she soon drifts off with a dummy. We follow a routine of feed/play/sleep and then night time routine is feed/bath/bed at 7pm. However this is extremely short lived and is soon awake and crying. She is obviously tired but nothing will settle her, not even the dummy! She cluster feeds during this period and then eventually just crashes at about 9:30/10pm as she's just so exhausted.

This makes for a really long day as I'm up once during the night and then early in the morning and our whole evening is spent just trying to settle her. I realise this is quite common, but what can we do to encourage her to make bedtime 7pm? I just really need reassurance that this will not last forever and I will eventually get to watch all my favourite programmes in peace and for me and DH to have some quality time again!!

Would love to hear of others who have had the same problem and what you did to resolve it etc etc .

Just keep persevering and eventually she will get the idea of bed at 7 - remember she is still young

My DD2 was just the same, and more often than not I would just sit there with her asleep in my lap and watching the telly - back when DH would still fetch me my drinks LOL I know it is frustrating, but I urge you to just cuddle her lots and treasure these moments while she is still really little - as it will pass all too quickly.

Yep, its fairly normal. Cam will not go down before 8pm, if I try, he is awake within 20 mins crying and grizzling. I know he is tired, he looks shattered but he is up again, feeding (again) and until that magic number hits the clock, thats what we do.

I spoke to plunket about it and they said its normal but that after 3 months things should start to settle (we have no routine either plus he is demand fed, sometimes every 2 hourly during the day). It does make for a long evening though, especially when you are tired and gagging to climb into bed too!

I wish we had My Sky. Then I wouldn't miss my programmes too. But alas.

I just have another couple of questions on this topic... if you don't mind me threadjacking as I am experiencing the same thing.

a) If you do get them to bed earlier ie. 7 instead of 9 will they wake earlier or just sleep longer and wake up at their usual time?

b) Should you persevere with putting them down earlier trying to settle them or will they just do it themselves eventually?

Thanks

Funny, all us Nov Mums experiencing the same thing!

We are just going with the flow - which means that we don't often even try to go to bed until after 10.30. Only once has she slept from 7pm, but we live in hope and as some of the more experienced Mums put it I just tell myself that this is such a short period of time, so just relax (but sometimes I want to scream and cry, and SLEEP)...after the last feed (I try not to feed after 11pm, she is DH's 'problem' and he has to get her down, as I know I'll be up to feed her sooner or later).

I cannot wait for the 12 hour sleeps - 7 til 7 sounds AMAZING....it's not that far away...I hope!