Babies thrive on routine and pattern. Having a good bedtime routine with your baby can be exactly what they need to help encourage them to sleep through the night. Keeping your routine consistent and calming will help your baby fall into a pattern and prepare for a good night’s sleep. Spending those moments as a family before bedtime was extremely important to us. We had always talked about wanting to read Bible Stories and pray as a family as part of our bedtime routine before putting all the kids in bed. So we started this right from the beginning! Of course our routine would develop and change over the years, but you can never start too young! It was the perfect way to begin establishing a bedtime routine for all of us from the beginning.

Jase’s bedtime routine always started with a bath during his newborn days. We would give him a warm bath with his lavender baby wash, lotion him down with his lavender baby lotion, and snuggle him in some warm pajamas. We later faded out of doing the bath every night and so we would just get him changed and in some pajamas on the nights we did not bathe him. But the bath really helped him sleep in the beginning, I am convinced it’s why he slept through the night so early!

Then we would sit in the rocking chair and read him a Bible story. We started this when Jase was three months old; we began by working through the Jesus Storybook Bible. Even with how young Jase was, he loved looking through the pictures. Then we would pray together and get him into bed. I love that we have been doing this with Jase from the beginning. Not only does it help calm him down and prepare him for bed, but it is feeding his spirit which is extremely important to us.