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Want to share your bedtime routine?
I work evenings, so I'm home 2-3 nights a week for bedtime, and DH gets it the other 4 nights. We really don't have any routine other than swaddling and rocking to sleep, and I know DH and I both have different ways of doing it. I usually do baths in the mornings. I'm just wondering if we need more consistancy at bedtime.
What kinds of things do you do to get your LO to sleep at night?
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Re: Want to share your bedtime routine?
Around 7ish we start to pray. At about 7ish she's usually starting to get tired. We lower the lights in the house & generally slow things down. When she's finally done (at around 7:30pm) I bring her into her room, close the door, turn on her fan (a/c), sit in the glider with her, nurse and then rock to sleep. When she's asleep I put her in her crib.?
But I think going into her room & turning on her a/c are her indicators that it's time for sleeping. ?
At that age we didn't really have one, we were still kind of flying by the seat of our pants. Probably around 4 months old we started with a routine and it hasn't changed much. It starts with DH doing "naked baby time" and tickling him and kissing him while he takes off his clothes. Then DH brings him to me and I give him a bath. I put him in his towel, bring him to his room and put on his diaper and give him his baby massage. Then we say good night to the pics in his room (himself, his cousins, me, daddy and his grandparents), then DH reads him a few stories, gives him his bottle, then turns out the light and we turn on his CD. We used to rock him for a couple of songs and then put him down, but now he just wants to be put in his crib right away and so we put him down (awake) and he rolls over and goes to sleep without a whimper. It took a lot of time to get to this, but it works like a charm.
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When he starts to show that he's tired we go into our room (we co-sleep), turn on the white noise, close the blinds and read E a book. Than we swaddle him, say our prayers and I nurse him. He than pulls off and I give him the pacifier. I lay with him till both eyes have been closed for 5 minutes and than leave.
He usually only wakes up if he's still hungry and didn't get enough to eat so I nurse on the other side till he's full and goes back to sleep.
When he gets more mobile we'll probably add a bath every other night but for now I do them in the day time twice a week.
We started a routine as early as 2 weeks I think.
We take a bath, nurse, read a story, then go to bed. It usually starts at 7:30 but we do the same thing no matter what time he goes to bed. I think it's really helped Austin. He falls asleep without problem every night (knock on wood!). Staying asleep is another story!
We've been doing this since about 2 months. I get home from work around 5:15 and nurse if they are due. We go for a walk around 5;30 with the dog. At 6:30 when we get home they get naked play time (we added this around 5 months) and then they each get a bath, then their last bottle or nursing (we alternate which baby nurses each night) and then a few minutes of cuddling to digest, then in bed by 7:30.
We didn't do the sleep training until they were about 5 months old..prior to that we rocked and walked them to sleep and then put them down. But starting the walk/bath/food routine definitely helped when we were ready to do the sleep training. Now we just put them down and they go right to sleep.
We start at about 8:15. His routine goes like this:
-naked time on bathroom floor while I get his bath filled
-he plays in the bath for 20ish minutes and I wash his hair
-then, lotion and jammies
-finally, i bring him in his room and feed him a bottle in his glider
He usually passes right out.