For the longest time, we gave DS a bottle at 10 or 10:30, then put him to bed, even though he really fell asleep at 7ish. He would sleep until 3 or 4am. Last week, I started trying to keep him awake until 9, gave him a bottle, and put him to bed. Still, he would sleep until 3 or 4. We transitioned him this weekend to his crib from the bassinet, he is 3 1/2 mths, and he slept great. I decided since I can't for the life of me keep him awake until 9, I would just put him down at 7:30 or 8. We have done this the past couple nights, and he sleeps until 2 or 2:30. I love that after 3 months, I finally have time with my husband at night! Usually, I would go to bed at 9ish, and he stayed up with baby. Now that DS is in his own room, I can finally sleep!

Here's my issue, though. I am still up at 2. I would love to get to the point where all three of us sleep through the night. So I ask, what time do you put your LO down for the night, how old is he/she, and does he/she sleep all night???

Thanks!!!

My son is 4 months. He's always been put down for the night at midnight. DH and I are kind of nightowls, LOL. For about 3 weeks, he's been sleeping through until 8 or 9 AM. His last bottle is around 11 and we play for the hour before sleepy time, to get him nice and drowsy. He takes several long naps during the day too. As he gets older, I'll move his bedtime up. I'm thinking I'll start putting him down around 10PM once he starts solids as he'll likely be able to still make it until 8 if I do that. :) Then around 1 year I'll push him up to an 8:00 bedtime and likely leave it there until he starts school. (Assuming this works out, but you know kids, they have different plans, LOL!)

My little one goes to bed around 8ish. She will sleep through until about 7am, sometimes 6:30. She's 5 months and has been doing this until she was about 1 month old. My other two NEVER slept through the night.

you are doing the right thing, it will take time but putting you baby to bed at the earlier time is the trick, they sleep better and if they go to bed too late they get overtired and don't sleep well. Eventually he'll sleep through the night but it may not be for a while. Just enjoy the time you do have right now in the evenings with your husband, that shouldn't change but one day your DS will sleep through the night and down the road you may kind of miss those middle of the night feedings just for the bonding/quiet time you have together. I kind of miss it for that reason, not that I want to go back to waking up at 2am :) My DD is 16 months old now and has been a great sleeper, she now goes down closer to 8pm but she used to go to bed by 7 or 7:30 until just recently. Just be patient, it will happen before too long.

You sound like you are living in my house! My husband & I are doing the exact same thing this week. My DD is 10 weeks old and we always put her to bed at 10. She would wake up around 2ish and then again around 6 (she has to get up at 6 or so b/c I work). Anyway, this week we decided that she really needed to go to bed around 8-8:30 b/c that is when she was becoming tired. (we were trying to keep her up just like you until 10) So far, so good. She still wakes up for her 2 am feeding, but I don't mind too much. I kind of like that time w/her...just as long as she falls back asleep easily!

I agree w/you, it's great to have some "free" time in the evenings again!

My dh and I laugh, b/c we well so clueless about what to do!;)

When my daughter was the same age as your little one, she too would go to bed around 10ish. We noticed she was cat-napping around 7pm, so we started putting her in her crib at that time. Sometimes she would wake up within the hour, have the rest of her bottle, and then go back down until the wee hours of the morning, but as time went on, she got use to this and started going down every night at 7ish until the wee hours. She was doing great at around 5 months old and was pretty much sleeping through the night, but as her teething progressed, her schedule got screwed up as well. Lately she has been up A LOT during the night - so be prepared for your schedule to shift around as time goes on.

It was a smart move putting the little one down earlier - isn't it nice to have even a little free time now?!?! :)

You are right, it is so nice to finally have some time with my hubby! It's easier for me to stay up later, now that DS is in his own room because I'm not waking up to every little sound he makes. I'm finally getting continuous sleep.

I agree with y'all that those 2am feedings are a special time. NOTHING beats feeling lousy that you have to get up, only to be greeted by the smiling face of your baby. It is such an intimate time between mom and baby. My son, however, has a difficult time staying asleep after that feeding, so I am pretty much awake every hour after 2am. :(

Just remember that once you think you got the sleeping schedule down, your baby will hit a growth spurt and surprise you with an awakening or something like that.
I have always put my DD down at 7-7:30pm (usually closer to 7) and starting at around 5 months old, she began off-and-on sleeping through the night until 5-5:30am. I nursed her then and put her back to bed until 7.
Now at almost 10 months old, she doesn't wake up until 6am and goes back to sleep for about 1/2 hour after nursing.
She's not a big napper and only sleeps between 1-2 hours during the day.

Yeah I have the same goal as you, have time with hubby, but unfortunately, just as everything was going well, as soon as I went back to work, everything fell back to the way it was again. My DD is 4 mos. old now, she started sleeping through the night at 2 mos. old (10PM-7AM) and then at
2 1/2 mos. I tried putting her on the crib just to test it out, and then she started sleeping much earlier from 8PM-7AM. As soon as I went back to work PT, she's 3 1/2 mos. old, I noticed that she started going back to 10PM - 5AM and worst sometimes she goes to bed at 11PM. I know it's because when I leave her with my parents they make her nap longer during the day. But they can't help it, if she's sleepy then they let her be.
They say I am lucky because I didn't have to train my baby to sleep through the night it just happened. I don't think you can really train the baby, if it works for others, then fine, but it is not for me, I let my daughter teach me a routine that will work for her. Heck, she is a baby!!! I am only there to guide her. I agree with the other post that if they are teething as well as other stimuli can't affect their sleeping habit.

I am breastfeeding too, so when she first slept through the night I still woke her up at 2AM and 5AM to EAT!! But now I just let her be. Doctor said she's gaining pretty well.

it takes them until they are a bit older. my daughter was te same way at 3-4 months. now she is 8 months and she got to bed around 8-9ish and sleeps till 6am eats goes back down till 9am or so. soon your LO will begin to get on a schedule with regular naps throughout the day and then it'll make it easier to determine bedtime. also i found that giving my baby a bath before bedtime works well. i use the 'bedtime bath' by johnson and it helps i think. then we rock in a chair in her dark room and i give her a bottle and she sleeps like an angel all the way through the night. by 6 months yours should sleep through the night. they say after by that time babies don't wake up out of hunger it is by habbit, so i would break yours before you can't! good luck!!:)