What time do your babies go down "for the night"?

in the last few weeks, bedtime for my b/g 3 month old twins has been anywhere between 6 and 7:00. They are starting to gradually stretch time between feeds here and there, most consistently during the first stretch, from, say 6:30-11:30. Then they go back to 3 hour stretches between feeds for the rest of the night. They tend to be up for the day very early, at around 4:30 or so. Should we be keeping them up longer? They seem to get so grouchy in the evenings that I can't imagine putting them to bed later, but I wonder if doing so would give us a longer stretch of sleep later at night. Just wondering. . . what time do your babies go down for the night? Are they grouchy if you keep them up?

Thanks!

 

At 3 months I started putting them down at 8pm. I would let them go down at 6, but wake after 20-30 minutes. They may still want to get up at 4:30. My girls wake at 7am no matter what time they go down.

 

Right now, sometime between 10:30pm and 11pm. Otherwise, they are up in the middle of the night to eat. We're trying to gradually back it up so we can get them down at 9pm or earlier, but it's going to take awhile. I'd rather stay up with them, than get up at 1 or 2am to feed.

 

Ours did the same thing, right around that age. Their longest stretch of sleep started around 7:00 and gradually lengthened from 3 hours to about 6 hours. But they still woke up around 1 and then again around 4. Fortunately we could usually get them back to sleep for another couple of hours if we gave them a bottle at 4.

Anyway, we tried keeping them up later in the evening, and we tried the dream feed around 11pm, but they still woke up at the same times during the night. Maybe it would have worked if we had kept at it, but after a few tries, we just decided to enjoy the long stretch of sleep whenever it came! We went to bed anytime after 7pm ourselves -- that way, we could get around 6 hours of sleep total during a 10-12 hour period.

 

Last week we started putting our boys to bed at 8pm, due to them consistently waking before 4:30am when putting them to bed between 6:30pm and 7pm. Colin did great with the new change and for 3 mornings this week he didn't wake until 6am to 7am...then he woke at 4:50am this morning (ugg). Brandon has woke between 5am and 5:30am this week...which is still better than 4:15am.

We are trying to find that happy medium of when to put them to bed and have them wake at sane hours, and it is rather maddening. If the boys start waking up before 5am consistently again then we'll move their bedtime even later to between 8:30pm and 9pm. But it was clear that the earlier bedtime of 6:30pm - 7pm was NOT working for us.

 

7:30 in this house.

 

At 3 months old we were probably getting them down after the 8pm ish feed. But at that age, we were working toward getting them in bed at 7-7:30 too with hopes that they would soon drop the 11pm feeding.

 

At 3 months, and still today, we put them down at 8:00. Of course at 3 months, they were still getting up to eat by around midnight or so but I considered them down for the night at 8.

 

At 3 months our girls were going to bed at around 10:30-11pm and sleeping until about 7am. They now go to bed between 9:30-10pm and get up at around 8am.

 

jack and abbey are 6 months old...for about a month now they go down between 10 and 11 for the night...for the most part (with the very rare occasion) they sleep all night without waking up..jack usually gets up about 7 to nurse and then crashes right back out after ward..abbey sleeps til about 9 and nurses and is up for a couple hours...when abbey was just cutting her teeth a couple of weeks ago, she'd wake up once at night..until about 5 months old, they were both going down at about 9 and then getting up between 1 and 2 and then going back down til about 7...

 

Sleep begets sleep...I would say keep going the way you are. Mine did the same and when they were awake longer, they were up earlier.

Jenn

 

M girls are 7 months old. And they have had the same schedule since they were 15 weeks. They wake up 7am and go to sleep at 7pm. They nap for 1hr at 9am, 2hrs at 12:30pm, 30mins at 5pm. They eat every 4hrs - 7am,11am,3pm,6:45pm.

If they wake up 30mins later, then everything gets adjusted/pushed back accordingly. But basically the day is broken in to 2 - 12hr halfs.

They usually never wake up earlier then 7am and never later than 8am.

 

At 3 months we considered after their 10-11pm feeding as "down for the night". They did their longest stretch of sleep at that time of night, and had just started giving me 4,5,6,7 hr stretches.

Now, at nearly a year,they go down anywhere from 9:30-10pm usually (tonight was nearly 10:30), and sleep until 9:30-10am.

 

At that age mine started wanting to go down sooner also. That is about the time we developed our 7 PM bedtime and they still go down between 7-8. Any later than that it is meltdown city! Grumpy is not even the word for it. They practically claw their eyes out they rub them so hard and if they get overtired then they fight going down. I say that as soon as they show you signs of tiredness you should put them to bed. Night waking is more from the immaturity of the brain and the lack of melatonin production at this stage and as they get older the AM wake time will start to extend later.

 

Mu girls have always been put to bed anywhere from 9-9:30. I'd actually like for them to go to bed earlier than that but I'm too scared to mess with their schedule! At 3mo they were still waking for a 2am feed but started STTN @ 4mo, sleeping until 7:30am.

 

My boys are 2 months old, so it's a bit different, but Nathaniel gos down at about 10:30-11 and sleeps till about 8 am, and William goes down between 11:30-12 and sleeps till about 7 am.

 

Our girls are down for the night at 5:30, rarely 6 anymore. They usually get up once but are up for the day by 7 or 8. This morning they didn't get up until 6:45, they ate, and they went right back to sleep. They are just now beginning to stir over the monitor and it's 8:30. There is no keeping them awake without a meltdown after 6.

My other two kids (one of whom was on the same schedule as the girls until she started sharing a room with her brother when we found out about the twins--what can I say? They love their sleep!) will wake up at the same time no matter what time they go to bed.