Why does bedtime have to take 2 hours?

Kristen050

If he wanted to go to bed at 9 or 10 and was happy until then it would be fine. Instead he fights afternoon naps, is cranky, gets super cranky around 7 at which point I try to put him to bed. He then fights it til 9 or 10. I've tried earlier bedtimes and later but it's always a battle.

Kristen050

Also, if your LO goes to bed at 9 or later, what time do they get up from their last nap?

doggiemom4

I have the same problem..

My LO doesn't take a morning nap and when he does it's all of 20 min. He cat naps like that all day. He gets his 2 hour nap around 4pm. I let him sleep until 6pm and feed him. I start dinner for DH and I, bathe LO, eat, give LO another bottle (730-8pm), then rock him to sleep. He is usually in bed by 830-9. He sleeps about 10-12 hours at night.

ETA: We have been doing this since he was a month and a half. I have gradually started putting him to bed earlier. We were doing midnight, then I knocked it back to 10pm, and now we are between 8-9. 

credcat7

Ditto to Doggiemom, I am debating waking her from her nap right now, already 3o min longer than usual.  She had her first meltdown of unknown origins today though so I think I might just let her sleep this off....her day was:

Up by 7:30 to eat - 8 - 10 was floor time, daddy time, mommy time then a 20 min nap (if that) more floor time then an epic meltdown that had us stripping her naked to see if she was getting pinched anywhere.... then a  post meltdown nap at 12 a good 30 min... off to run errands, she fell asleep in the car but was up from 2-4 playing and cooing and talking...down at 4:15 till now.  she's had 4 bottles..and will haveanother now and asmall one befroe bed again which will be at 9 (since she is napping so late)

amwhite08

We usually start bedtime around 8, which takes about an hour. Bath, Jammies, bottle, prayer, rock to sleep. And he usually wakes up around 4 or 5 am for a bottle and then up at 7am. He takes his last nap at 6 usually for 45 min. But we just woke him up at 7:30 so as to not get too close to bedtime and he is pissed!! Lol.

vnstacie

My LO has always  taken a nap from 2-5, eats snoozes until I feed him at 8, then goes to sleep. 

He's pretty laid back since LO1 requires lots of attention lol 

pink26

if he starts getting cranky at 7 try starting bedtime a 630.  by the time he's cranky he's probably over tired and more difficult to get to sleep.  we put ouur daughter to bed at seven, she wakes at two to nurse then again around 6.

mrs panita

my LO used to do a similar thing, I was so keen to get her in a bedtime routine and asleep by 7... after a week of it not working and me and her getting cranky (around 7.30pm) I decided to 'give up' trying to get her in a routine and let her do her thing for a little while longer...

and hey presto about a week later i realised we were in a routine where she had her last feed around 7 then had a poop then a little more food lots of love and asleep around 8.30... after a solid week of that she then went on to magically sleeping all night

I'm not sure but she might have been picking up on my subconscious "you must be asleep by 7 vibes"  and when i kept clock watching and worrying, so when i stopped that she became happier and just picked her own sleeping routine. 

hope that helps