What time is bedtime at your house?

rispergirl · May 2009

Up until recently we could just put the babies down and they'd go to sleep. Now they're resisting and we're having a nightly struggle. I can tell that we need to establish a routine that will help them get settled. What time do your kids go to bed? When do you start your routine? We can't do a nightly bath because they have very dry skin. I was thinking of doing a little massage instead. Any other suggestions?

Honestly, I don't want to start something too long or elaborate because I don't know how we'll fit in dinner and any time for DH and me. So I want to keep this as short and easy as possible but make it work for the babies too.

CMM05 · May 2009

Right now its between 8-8:30, but for a long time he was going to bed between 7-7:30.

When DS was around the age of your twins, I *think* he was going to "bed" around 8:30/9ish. I didn't do a bath everynight either. But, I would lay him down and lotion him up (kind of like a little massage like you are suggesting.....) and I would read or sing to him for a little.

Now......we start the bedtime routine around 7:15ish. We take a bath (pretty much every night now.....), we fight about getting a diaper on (LOL!), then we get jammies on. He comes in our room and hangs out on our bed and we read a couple stories. Then, he goes to sleep in his own room!

GL!

LSUBride3 · May 2009

Bedtime is 8.

Solids around 6, last bottle around 7 (bath in between if it's bath night). Right now we're lucky and she pretty much falls asleep, but often i hold her and/or rock her. I would like to add a story in there, but a lot of the time she falls asleep during the bottle.

pandabearlover · May 2009

We've been doing our routine for a while now. ?We eat dinner around 5, bath around 6, then we play/watch tv (we love Wheel of Fortune-Betsy included) from 6:30 to 7. ?Then upstairs for prayers and a little rocking and then into the bed. ?She usually sleeps until sometime between 6 and 7 am.

I am going to transition her to a big girl bed in August/September so I think we will start reading a book in bed instead of rocking and see how that goes. ?I need the rocker for the new baby! ?But I do love to rock my sweet girl, especially when she is tired because she cuddles me.?

JillRock96 · May 2009

Ava goes to bed around 7:30 (she chose that time -- if we try to keep her up later, she just gets overtired). ?We usually start her routine around 7. ?We bathe her every other day. ?Whether or not she has a bath, we follow with lotion and pajamas. ?Then one of us feeds her a bottle. ?When she's done, the other one comes in and reads her a book we sit in her glider). ?We always end with the Going to Bed Book. ?Then we put her down in her crib. ?HTH!

Mr.&MrsS · May 2009

Brady usually gets dinner around 5:30-6ish, then a bath (we do one almost every night, but he needs it because he gets dirty playing outside at day care), play downstairs for a little while. And then around 7 I take him to his room, turn out the lights and turn on his noise machine and feed him in the dark (with the night light on) in the glider. When he finishes his bottle I will rock him for another minute or two then put him down in his crib awake. So really the only sleep routine part is the bottle and then bed. My DS is older than yours...I think around your babies age DS was going to bed closer to 8:30, and we would just feed him when he seemed he was ready for bed and he would fall asleep while eating his last bottle and then we would put him down in his crib. Good luck!

jlc071903 · May 2009

Bedtime is between 7:45-8:30...it just depends on how early they tell us that they need to go to bed...and then we'll start their last bottle.

Typically their evening looks like this:

5-5:30 solids

6:00-6:30 Play/Walk

6:45-7:15 bathtime

7:15-7:30 last bottle

sometimes it's a little later depending on how successful their 2 naps of the day were!

pamela-matt · May 2009

DS goes to bed between 7:30 and 8pm. ?We were doing later, but he was overly tired during the day and would not nap. ?

We make an early dinner. ?We start our routine at about 7pm. ?Bath, Get Dressed, Books (if he will let us), bed. ?Start reading to them now at night...right now DS won't sit with us for 2 minutes to read. ?Massage sounds like a great idea. ?My DS has really sensitive, dry skin too and we still do a bath every night. ?We only do soap a couple times per week and he seems to be okay.?

weemodin · May 2009

At that age, it was 6:30-7:00. Any later was a disaster. For us, early was much better.

Now it's usually 7.

bmf8140 · May 2009

We shoot for

-bath at 7:45 or 8:00

-bottle around 8:00 or 8:30

-bed around 8:30-8:45

trinny · May 2009

It sort of depends when/how long her last nap was, but I'd say usually between 7:30-8:00 (though can be as early as 6:30 if she's really cranky). We do the massage either after the bath or on its own. She doesn't have the patience for story time at this stage because I usually nurse/rock her to sleep and she'll start rooting and crying if I try to read to her! If you don't have much time for routine, also focus on the environment-- keep the lights low (we use a lamp) and turn on a fan, white noise machine, or special CD, etc. this will cue them in it is time to wind down.

choco_lab · May 2009

I'm trying to work this out now. This is how it's been playing out. 6:30 - bottle, 7:00 - book/rocking, 7:30 - asleep

However, it's been a struggle the past few nights. I don't think DS is getting in good naps during the day and is overtierd at night so he's really fighting going to bed. A couple of nights he's started to fall asleep at 5:30 or 6. Then I don't know what to do.. let him go to sleep that early or try to make him stay awake. I'm thinking if I get the nap thing figured out, he'll be able to make it until 6:30.

trinny · May 2009

choco_lab:
A couple of nights he's started to fall asleep at 5:30 or 6. Then I don't know what to do.. let him go to sleep that early or try to make him stay awake. I'm thinking if I get the nap thing figured out, he'll be able to make it until 6:30.

Yes! One night DD 'napped' from 4-7! I didn't want to wake her, but figured she'd be up way too late and all off schedule. But she still wanted to go back to sleep around 8 and actually STTN that night. The old addage 'sleep begets sleep' really works for her.

kittylove · May 2009

We start the feed at 7pm. Sometimes he feeds for 5 minutes and then is asleep and other times it takes 40 minutes. So it just depends.

tina623 · May 2009

We do baths every other night for the same reason. We got to bed between 8-830, basically when I'm ready to good night lol. In my defense, I don't get home until 7.

Because we can't do nightly baths, after reading a book or two, we read "Goodnight Moon" or "Good Night Gorilla". They know after that book, it's time for bed. Sometimes they start crying when I close the book .

crystalgirl · May 2009

At your twins' age, bedtime was 7, with our routine starting at 6:45. (Now bedtime is 8.) We don't do nightly baths, either, for the same reason. Anyway, our routine was diaper change & jammies with a soother playing music, dim the lights, bedtime story (we use the same book every night, which I think helps), prayer, nurse, put in his crib. Now it's a bit different as we do vitamin, change, nurse, brush teeth, story, pray, bed. The change was brought on by the need to brush teeth after nursing (DS has bad teeth Sad

) and the desire to break him from the habit of nursing right before sleep.

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