What is the best bedtime routine for a 4 month old?

Answer 1

I guess your 4 month old should wake up at 8, eat breakfast, play with its toys for 1 or 2hrs, have lunch, let him/her play with his/her toys again. Then at like 5 give him/her a bath. At like 7 dinner and then your baby should go to sleep at 8.

Answer 2

Read "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" by Weissbluth

I know of many people who swear by it. I read the book and learned a few things from it:

A small infant should never be awake for more than 2 hours during the day.
Bedtime should be fairly early, like 6-7:00pm. The best time for my baby I found was 6:30, she goes right to sleep and if I put her to bed later like 8:00-8:30, she cries and doesn't stop because she is overtired. With that bedtime she usually gets up around 7:00 am (once at night too like 3:00 am) takes a bottle then falls back asleep til like 8:30am. It's great!

I usually give her a bottle around 6:00 and then if she has a bath that night I bather her and bring her into a dim room and massage her with lotion really good. I don't play with her too much to get her too excited. I give her teething tablets if I see she seems irritated and in pain. Stick a pacifier in her mouth and then I rock her for 2 minutes and put her down.
I like to put a rolled up soft blanket against her face, she loves that feeling and almost immediately falls asleep.

When you read this book you will discover the importance of sleep. How Americans hardly ever put their kids to bed early enough. Putting an infant to bed any later than 7:00 pm or so is too late, a school age child should be sleeping around 8:00 and so an infant should be going to bed even earlier.

Please read the book, they may have used ones on Amazon.
Good luck!

Answer 3

A warm bath. Baby lotion (just plain stuff) while you talk in soothing tones. Sleeper/Pajamas. Sit comfortably on the couch or in a comfy chair. We stay in the quiet living room during this time. A bottle (I put cereal in hers, but she was already sleeping through the night and the doc told me to). After the bottle, sit and cuddle for a few minutes. Put the baby to bed still awake, but drowsy. Talk to her a little more. Turn on mobile or other soft music maker. Speak very softly as you leave the room and tell her "night night".

If she fusses a little, let him/her be. If the baby actually cries, go to him/her. Speak in soothing tones, pat/rub back. But do NOT pick the baby up. Reapeat until sleeping.
When the baby is older, you can give them a stuffed animal or something to take to bed, so they do not feel alone in the crib.

Answer 4

My baby is almost 5 months and she has a bath at 9 cereal at 9:30 after cereal we read a book and than bedtime is 10pm

Answer 5

Bathe the baby,nurse it or feed it,cuddle with with it,rock it ,and lay down in it's crib and kiss it night night.

Answer 6

explain better please...do you mean bathing and eating and such? You aren't being specific enough.

Answer 7

let them choose & cuddle with them . you may never get another chance . life is uncertain & their only young once.