Have you successfully changed LO's bedtime?

xtencornfield

DS decided on his own that his bedtime is 7:30 pm.  This was fine when he was sleeping a full 12 hours at night but now he's only sleeping 11 hours and it's becoming a problem for our work schedule.  He's now waking up and wanting to get up about an hour before DH and DS leave the house in the monring which is right when I'm ready to leave for work and DH is either getting ready for work or hasn't even gotten up yet.  Before, DH would get him up 15 minutes before they were ready to leave.  The easy solution would be that DH just has to get up earlier w/him.  However, that also means that we need to get up w/him at 6:30 am on the weekends, which we'd rather not do if there's another option:o)  We want to try to push his bedtime back to 8 pm so he sleeps until 7 am.  Have you done this successfully?  If so, how'd you do it?

TIA!

KKM

Funny how babies dont fit into our schedules:)

You could try, but usually a later bedtime means waking even earlier for us. 

WildcatPrincess

Ditto PP.  If LO goes down earlier or later than she's ready she wakes up more during the night and gets up for the day earlier.

stgn01

KKM:

Funny how babies dont fit into our schedules:)

You could try, but usually a later bedtime means waking even earlier for us. 

Yup!  Your baby will wake up when she wants to, no matter how early or late you put them to bed.  Sorry it's not working out for you, but I don't think you can do much about it. 

spout3

DD always sleeps 11.5 hours - not 11 and not 12... but 11.5 haha. (7:30 pm-7am)

The last few days bc of our schedule she was going down until 8 pm - I was thinking she would then wake up 11.5 hours later at 7:30am - WRONG!  she started to wake up earlier between 6-6:15! UGH

KRMac

Yeah, we are in a similar situation of DS waking up at annoying times for our morning routine.  Doesn't matter when we want him to go to sleep though - the boy is READY when he is READY.  Silly baby.

jilicious

I am resigned to getting up around 6am on weekends. It's not so bad, it's early enough and cool enough that we can go on a dog walk while DH sleeps in, and when he gets up around 8:30am I hand her to the big guy and say "Time for you to take over, mama's hitting the sack."

It's always nice to let DH sleep in, because a rested man is a happy-to-help-in-any-way man.

xtencornfield

Yeah, kinda thought this might be the case but I thought I'd just check and see if anyone out there had some tips, LOL.  It doesn't really affect me too much since I have to leave for work...DH will just have to get up earlier, hehehehehe.  A little payback for all of those nights when I went back to work and he didn't help with the late-night wakings at all before DS started STTN (and DS is bottle-fed)

wakeangel

I just finished reading "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" and the author suggests moving the bedtime earlier in order to have your baby sleep later.  Seems counterintuitive but it has worked for us.  The later we keep our little one up, the earlier she wakes.  Try moving bedtime up by 20 minutes for 4 nights in a row and see if it makes a difference.  Good luck!