@sarahgren Our son was born at 37w2d and has been consistently sleeping for 4-6 hour stretches at night for a few weeks now (he’s currently 9 1/2 weeks old). We started doing a bedtime routine a few weeks in (diaper change, bottle, & story, then rocking gently & song to finish settling; white noise machine on and lights totally out), and usually get that all done by 8pm. He’ll then typically wake to feed between 1.30-3am and then be back down again until 6-7.30 or so. He doesn’t sleep
loads during the day (usually a 2-hour nap in the morning, then a couple shorter naps or one longer nap around 3pm, then sometimes a final catnap around 5.30/6pm before bed), which maybe explains the good night sleeping habits? In each wake window during the day, I’ll start by giving him a change & bottle before we try to do a bit of play/tummy time, get outside (even if it’s just in the backyard), and have some face-to-face time (and a few snuggles!). Sometimes he’ll only settle through contact naps during the day (I’ll try to transfer him after 10min or so- not always successfully!), other times he’ll go through a modified nighttime routine to settle for the longer naps (bottle, song & rocking, white noise machine on and lights totally out).