Bed time routines

Bed time routines, do they work?

We have just started getting our 3 month into a new bed time routine. So far it seems to be working so I thought I would share it with you all. 

• 5:30pm go upstairs and have a bath
• 5:45pm get dried and dressed ready for bed 
• 6:00pm have a bottle 
• 6:15pm have a cuddle with a dummy, favourite teddy and watch Cebeebies bedtime hour
• 7:00pm have a story 
• 7:15pm go to bed 

Since having my baby all people keep asking me is 'does she sleep through the night yet'. No Margaret she doesn't yet she's only 2 days old, plus she's a baby, babies don't sleep! Well thats what I thought but Alice is a good baby (sorry to those who have babies who don't sleep I know how frustrating it must be when people waltz along and be like I have slept for 12 hours) but generally she sleeps a good amount a night. 

I know for many parents their kids do not sleep through the night for many months sometimes years and I feel for you all walking around like zombie most of the time I really do. Although Alice goes to be fine most nights every night she is still waking up every 5/6 hours so what I want to know is how do you transition to sleeping all the way through the night? 

A lot of people have told me you need to fill her up before bed, this means making sure she is drinking as much milk as she can before bed, however we are really struggling to do that as she will drink about 4/5oz and fall flat out asleep part way through feeding. We have tried everything, it doesn't matter what time we feed her, what position, we even try waking her but nothing works. I am grateful that she sleeps for the time she does but I was wondering if anyone else had ideas of how to get her to sleep through. If you do please leave them in the comments below!

Everyone has different bed time routines and different children of different ages so I am curious to know what your bed time routines are so comment them down below. 

Lastly thank you for reading my post I have also uploaded a new Youtube video please give it a watch its called 'How to swaddle a baby' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZj2USV6gSU&t=2s

The Honest Mum xox