I know of many babies about the same age or younger than my son (11 weeks) and they are sleeping between 6-10 hours straight at night!!! I think most of them are feeding loads during the day to stock up for night.

Does this actually work??????? We are trying a routine starting yesterday where he will have all his feeds between 6am and 11pm and hopefully end up sleeping during the night.

Also, if anyone has tried following a set routine, does it take long for them to get used to it??

Thanks for any advice x x x

Hi, my son (now aged 7 months) started to sleep for over 6h a night when he was approx 3 months old, but it was a gradual process of moving his night time feed back by 10 mins a night until we had a big enough gap that got us there, starting from when he was about 2 months old. By the time he was 5 months old he was sleeping from about 8pm until 7am.

I don't think there are hard and fast rules for this, some parents just feed their babies when they wake up crying with hunger and don't time it at all. I think plenty of feeding during the day is bound to help though, as are things like taking them for walks to tire them out and trying to keep to the same routine of an evening (eg, bath, feed, story then bed) so they get to know that it is now time to go to sleep.

Good Luck XX