Any Tips to get my puppy to sleep more consistently at night ?

Hello

So my girlfriend and I recently brought home a 11 week old Dachshund. He is absolutely wonderful, loves to play, listens pretty well (for a puppy), goes to the bathroom in the right spots and is obviously adorable.

Our trouble comes at night when we’re trying to get him to sleep. We’ve been trying to crate train him so we’ve been putting him in his crate at night. He normally has no issues with his crate and will sleep it in during the day time for hours. At night he often whines and groans the second he wakes up. Sometimes we’re able to get him back to sleep in 5 minutes or less but other times it’s 20 minutes before he falls asleep and then he wakes up 30 to an hour later.

We have him go to the bathroom before we put him in the crate and if it looks like he has a lot of energy before bed we try to play with him and let him chew on his toys. When he whines in his crate at night we get up and lie down next to him and try to reassure him that he’s okay and try to convince him to go to sleep.

Does anyone have any additional tips they can give to help us get a couple of extra hours of consistent sleep ?

Note - we have not had him more then a week but we’re just trying to look for any way we can do better by him