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Bedtime Basics: Routines, Feeding and Settling

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Bedtime Basics is your simple, supportive guide to creating calm, consistent bedtime routines from newborn to 12 months. This guide explains why bedtime routines matter, how they support your baby’s body clock, and how predictable cues help babies wind down and settle more easily. With practical examples, feeding guidance and settling strategies, Bedtime Basics gives you everything you need to build a soothing, age-appropriate routine that reduces overtiredness, strengthens sleep associations and makes evenings smoother for the whole family.

Bedtime Basics is your simple, supportive guide to creating calm, consistent bedtime routines from newborn to 12 months. This guide explains why bedtime routines matter, how they support your baby’s body clock, and how predictable cues help babies wind down and settle more easily. With practical examples, feeding guidance and settling strategies, Bedtime Basics gives you everything you need to build a soothing, age-appropriate routine that reduces overtiredness, strengthens sleep associations and makes evenings smoother for the whole family.

What’s Included?

Understanding Bedtime Routines

  • Why bedtime routines are important

  • How routines support your baby’s circadian rhythm

  • How bedtime cues help link patterns to sleep

  • Why newborns don’t need strict routines

  • How routines evolve from 0–12 months

Bedtime Routine Foundations

  • The goal of a bedtime routine

  • Structure vs flexibility (age-appropriate expectations)

  • How bedtime routines support early self-settling

  • Adjusting routines around milestones, teething & nap transitions

Tips for a Successful Bedtime Routine

  • Keeping it consistent

  • Keeping it calm and predictable

  • Keeping it short and simple (why 20–30 minutes is ideal)

  • Avoiding overstimulation before bedtime

  • Following tired cues (and avoiding too early / too late)

Full Bedtime Routine Examples

  • Step-by-step newborn bedtime routine

  • 3-month bedtime routine example

  • Order of cues (bath → feed → story → bed)

  • How to place baby in bed awake (realistic, age-appropriate)

Bedtime Feeding Guidance

  • Why babies are normally fed after the bath

  • What a split feed is and when to use it

  • How full feeds support longer, better sleep

  • Signs of satiety

  • Avoiding sleep-on-feed dependence (age-appropriate approach)

Settling Techniques (3–12 Months)

  • Responsive settling

  • Physical comfort (rocking, patting, hand on chest, stroking)

  • Verbal comfort (shushing, humming, calm voice)

  • How and when to reduce physical/verbal input

  • Creating predictable settling cues

  • Safe use of white noise and dim lighting

Physical & Verbal Comforts

  • Techniques to soothe fussiness

  • Supporting emotional regulation

  • How comfort supports sleep routines

  • Gradual reduction to avoid reinforced sleep associations

How Routines Interact With Sleep Skills

  • When babies begin developing self-settling capability

  • Why overtiredness disrupts bedtime

  • Supporting smooth transitions between sleep cycles

  • Age-appropriate expectations at each stage