Bed time for 6 month old baby

[Mamabear86]

Hello 🙂

I'm a first time mum of a 6 month old baby boy. Does any mummies put their babies to bed at a particular time if so what time? Our lil chap falls asleep around 8pm down stairs with us. Not sure whats best to do! Any advice much appreciated 🙂

Many thanks

 

[Ttc1234]

From 10 weeks we put our son up stairs to sleep and used monitors. His bedtime was around 9pm then and slowly came back. It's been 7pm from at least 5 months as we put him in his own room then. It's worked well for us as he sleeps through most of the time. He's 11 months now and at 7 we bath, give milk in the dark in his nursery then put him down in his cot to fall asleep so he's usually sleeping by 710pm.

 

[Rose83]

We've always gone for a bedtime routine since having my daughter, when her brother came along he just followed the same routine as her. So we watch CBeebies in the night garden until 6.45 then go up for a bath, then they are given their milk in their bedrooms in the dark then put in their beds to sleep for about 7.15pm.

That makes it sound simple but it's obviously had moments where it wasn't. As a newborn my son was let really up for sleeping so he would come back downstairs to sleep and feed (he was breastfed every hour and a half so it worked better to keep him downstairs). My daughter would sometimes take hours to cuddle to sleep but we refused to let her come out the bedroom. At about 13 months we got to the stage where we could just put her in her cot awake and she would lie down and go to sleep. Haven't quite reached that with my son and he needs about a 5-10 minute cuddle x

 

[russellmuscle]

With my first born he was much easier adapting to a night routine. He did bath bottle bed and that was him from 8-8. Still has a similar pattern now.

Second son has allergies so we started the routine a bit later which is now basically the same as his brothers only they watch night Garden and bath together. We then do story and then it's lights out.

xxxx

 

[millielaura]

My nearly 5 month old just sleeps whenever lol tried the whole routine and putting her in cot but she will only fall asleep in my bed so I just try get her off to sleep when I come up to bed. Often she's napping on /off till around 1 or 2 and then I can transfer her to her cot after a few attemps lol xx

 

[SLHRK]

Sorry to jump on this post but I'm interested! the mums who have commented saying they have a routine where the end of your bedtime routine is to put your bubbas down in the cot, will they fall asleep without fuss or will they have a cry? Just interested to know x

 

[millielaura]

When we tried it she cried a ton, went back in every minute or so to settle her and soon as we put down she cried again. This could go on for hours and hours so just stopped doing it to her and ourselves in the end lol xx

 

[Ttc1234]

We used to rock him until about 8 months when we just lay him down - he cried a bit but we kept going in to settle
Him but didn't lift him. He now just falls asleep when put down after his
Milk

 

[russellmuscle]

Carter doesn't cry. He will have his last feed in his bouncer whilst his brother and I wash up then they get night kisses from daddy then I place Carter in his cot. Jackson goes to bed we have a story then we put on the little vtech bear with white noise on and they just go to sleep.

Sometimes Carter will lay babbling but he doesn't cry. Have you tried some white noise to settle shrlk? X

 

[Rose83]

My daughter took a week of training at 13 months to not cry when we put her in. Basically my OH did it, he would give her her bottle while she lay down in her cot then he started by just sitting in the room until she fell asleep but told her if she stood up in the cot he would leave the room which he did. She would then cry until he went back in (he just left her two minutes at most) then she soon got the idea that she had to stay lying down for him to sit there. After about three days he started to wander in and out while she drank her bottle so she got used to being there alone and then at about a week he just left after her bottle was done and she didn't get up and didn't cry and just went to sleep.
Until this week I've been holding my son until he falls asleep after his bottle (about 5 minutes) then putting him in cot but last night my OH did the same thing as above with him and he stayed lying down and went to sleep! I was so shocked - I think they behave for him because it was unusual for him to be putting them in the cot.
X

 

[SLHRK]

Carter doesn't cry. He will have his last feed in his bouncer whilst his brother and I wash up then they get night kisses from daddy then I place Carter in his cot. Jackson goes to bed we have a story then we put on the little vtech bear with white noise on and they just go to sleep.

Sometimes Carter will lay babbling but he doesn't cry. Have you tried some white noise to settle shrlk? X

My issue is she always falls asleep with the boob, she occasionally falls asleep with her dad in the kitchen but not often. I tried white noise last night but she just kept looking for where it was coming from! She still sleeps in the co-sleeper attached to the bed at the moment and she's 8 months! I've recently got a nursing chair in her room which I sit in til she falls asleep then put her down asleep in her cot but she only goes til about 12 til she's looking for another feed. Just need to persevere from here and once she's used to falling asleep in the room gradually move her to her cot before she's sleeping

Again I apologise for jumping on this thread op!!

 

[Rose83]

Hey SLHRK, my little boy was breast fed until 9 months (my little girl was express breast fed until 8 months). With both of them I had to stop feeding because I was pregnant again and my milk had dried up. Since 9 months with my son it has been a hard slog to get him to sleep without being cuddled and waking multiple times for feeds with cuddles as he was so used to it. He fed every hour and a half night and day! It's just perseverance really and I know it's easy to say but I kind of believe they settle into a more acceptable routine when they are ready x

 

[russellmuscle]

Carter doesn't cry. He will have his last feed in his bouncer whilst his brother and I wash up then they get night kisses from daddy then I place Carter in his cot. Jackson goes to bed we have a story then we put on the little vtech bear with white noise on and they just go to sleep.

Sometimes Carter will lay babbling but he doesn't cry. Have you tried some white noise to settle shrlk? X

My issue is she always falls asleep with the boob, she occasionally falls asleep with her dad in the kitchen but not often. I tried white noise last night but she just kept looking for where it was coming from! She still sleeps in the co-sleeper attached to the bed at the moment and she's 8 months! I've recently got a nursing chair in her room which I sit in til she falls asleep then put her down asleep in her cot but she only goes til about 12 til she's looking for another feed. Just need to persevere from here and once she's used to falling asleep in the room gradually move her to her cot before she's sleeping

Again I apologise for jumping on this thread op!!

My eldest always fell asleep on the bottle. Right up until he was about 1 or so. Then he'd take a bottle into bed with him and he had that wee comfort.

The wee bear we have plays it for a wee while and displays a light on the celing. It's quite good.

Carter is having a growth spurt atm so has been waking for more feeds and I've recently put his feeds up but sometimes he just wastes it. They just play by their own rules.

One thing we used with both boys *although j didn't take to it he just slept with no fuss* was a comforter. I slept with it on the lead up to his birth then he got that in beside him. Sometimes if I lay him awake in with that he just plays with it and rubs his face until he is asleep.

A taggy is good to self settle with too, loads of coloured tags to eat and a soft side to snuggle.
xxx

 

[Rose83]

They really do play by their own rules - like the taggy blanket, sure I paid about £15 for that and it was absolutely useless for my little girl whereas my best friend's little girl loved it. My little girl loves Ewan the sheep and still has him on at 2 and a half. Bought one for my son when he was born and he hates it, never has it on at all. It's just trial an error til they like something! X

 

[Firsttimemumx]

From around 1 month old I always put my daughter down to bed at 7/7.30pm following the bath bottle bed routine.. even if she had fed not long before I'd offer her a few ounces. By 8 weeks she was sleeping 7-7 since then there's been just a few occasions when she has woken in the night.. like when she had an ear infection, a cold, jabs etc. She is now 13 months.. gro bags helped a lot too. She learned to associated her gro bag with sleep so as soon as she was in it she knew it was bed time.

 

[Dyan Belinda]

My baby at 6 months old still used to wake up every 2 hours. I always breastfed her to sleep. I thought it was a mistake, as I felt so tired... But I survived, after starting solids she started sleeping 5-6 hours.
I am still a big supporter of breastfeeding to sleep. Of course, it is very exhausting for moms, but isn't it all about the baby? It's the most natural, innocent and beautiful thing when your baby is falling asleep breastfeeding.... All these sleep trainings are mostly for parents comfort, not the baby's. I do not criticize parents who choose to sleep train their child, it's just not for us!