Sleep - how much at night?

[Emma1979]

aaagh srv, i feel your pain. I don't know the answer. Hollie is quite unsettled in the early evenings too. When we did manage to get her to sleep, we still had to go in frequently because of crying and replace dummy etc. I decided 7pm was too early for her right now, and we have now pushed it back to about 8.30pm. It is still a huge improvement on giving her bath at 10pm like before. I am planning on trying to stick to bath at 8.30pm then bed for a few weeks, then maybe bring it forward to 8pm all going well, then after a few weeks try bringing it forward a bit earlier to maybe 7.30pm. This is all provided she can still manage to sleep to a reasonable hour in the morning. I'm not going to put her to bed earlier if it means her days will start super early, like 5am or anything.

In an ideal world I think it would be bed at 7.30pm, wake at 7.30am, but I think it will be a long road ahead before we get there. At the moment it is more like bed at 9pm, she sleeps but is quite unsettled til about 11pm, then sleeps soundly from then on and wakes around 7.30-8am (unless she wakes in the night for dummy or feed)

I would probably suggest post poning the 7pm bedtime, and maybe bring it forward just a little to what you were doing before... ie if bedtime was 9.30pm, make it 9pm or 8.30pm for a while. its the only thing i can think of. best of luck. we are in very similar position. i know how exhausting it is bathing them etc so late at night.