What time does your 3 y/o go to bed? And wake? Naps?

Expecting0207 · January 2010

I'm just wondering if mine may need a slightly later bedtime. Bedtime is normally 8pm for both girls, they both wake around 7:30am, the younger one naps one for 3-4 hours or two smaller naps a day. The 3 y/o can nap for 1.5-2 hours but sometimes skips. The reason I wasn't sure about pushing her bedtime back is that she has a lullabye CD that plays when I put her to bed. Probably 6 or 7 out of the last 10 nights she's yelled down for me to put it on again. That means one hour after I put her in bed she is still awake up there. I was thinking of letting her sit and do a quiet craft, read, or watch a show while I put DD1 to bed and then doing DD2's routine to keep her up 1/2 hr later.

Mominator · January 2010

Bed - 8pm. Wake - 8-8:30am. Naps - none unless we are out and about and she falls asleep in the car.

*Amy* · January 2010

He goes between 7:30 - 8:30. Most nights in bed by 8. He wakes around 7:30 - 8. He gave up naps last summer, so a few months shy of 3. If she is up for that long, she may not be ready. Maybe try bumping it up in 15 min increments and see what happens.

Temp108743750006959 · January 2010

bed: 7:30. no naps.and he is out like a freaking light.

if he napped anytime after 3pm for more than 1 hour, he wouldn't be in bed till 10pm, no joke!

if he napped early, like around 12 or 1pm, he would go down around 8:30.

butterbeansmama · January 2010

Wake up: 7:00am

Nap: 12:00-3:00 (shortest nap 1.5 hours, longest nap 3hours)

Bedtime: 8:00pm

Marce921 · January 2010

DS goes to bed at 7:30pm and he gets up between 8 and 8:30am. He doesn't nap anymore. If he does nap, he goes to bed between 8 and 8:30pm.

Honestly, I would just skip the naps with her. When DS would nap (he'd still nap 1 1/2-2 hours), he would lay in bed awake until 10pm or after. So, I stopped the napping and he sleeps much better at night.

~Kat~ · January 2010

Bedtime is 8, he wakes at about 7:30, and naps from 1-3. I have started putting him to bed a little closer to 8:30 and have noticed that he still wakes at 7:30, but his naps are better.

AnnapolisLari · January 2010

Wakes 7:30ish

Nap 12-1:30 or 2

Bed 8:00

mylove2005 · January 2010

DD goes to bed at 7:30 if she naps and falls asleep by 8 and if she does not nap than she goes to bed by 7 and is asleep pretty quick and she is up for the day at 6:30 during the week and a little later on weekends

baby*love · January 2010

DD#1 is a few months shy of 3. She wakes 8-ish and goes to sleep 8-ish. She takes a nap some days and others goes without. Its weird, sometimes if she does nap it is 1.5hrs and she is raring to go til like 10pm other times she is still ready for bed at 8/8:30 with the nap and all. I think she is just starting to adjust to needing less sleep.

I'm jealous your little one sleeps so much during the day! If my 15mo old gives me one 1 to 1.5hr nap during the day I am thankful, she has always needed VERY little daytime sleep, lucky me!

aknjcp · January 2010

DD will be 3 in 2 weeks.

She wakes at about 9 AM.

Naps sometimes from about 1-2 PM. Usually she just sits in her room and has "quiet time" though. She just started giving up the naps about 6 weeks ago - before that she slept for 2-3 hours from 12:30-3ish.

She goes to bed between 7:30 and 7:45. On the weekends, we'll often let her stay up later, though - so long as she is behaving.

black.kat · January 2010

our night routine starts around 7 and usually wraps up around 7:45/8:00 (including bath, books, songs, potty, brush teeth).

I would agree that maybe you should go later since she is awake for an hour after the cd starts, however, I would STRONGLY disagree with watching TV before bed because tv stimulates the mind, to the point where it take at least a minumum of 1/2 hour for the brain to relax enough to sleep... having her read (look at) books or do some coloring would be a good thing. Our DD has the leap frog reader thing - that "pen" that she can put on the pages and it reads to her... she LOVES it and is learning from it. It was pricey, but worth it!

Night lights out: 7:45/8:00

Wake - 7:30 usually

Nap - usually doesn't take one anymore, but has an hour of quiet dark at noon.

GL!

femmegem · January 2010

He doesn't nap any more. He goes to bed at 8 and wakes up usually between 7 and 8.

SumnerBride · January 2010

Bed-7:30pm

Up-8am

Nap-between 12:30-1pm for about 2 hours

CubbyMama · January 2010

Bedtime: 8:30ish

Nap: an hour or so at around 2pm, if at all (maybe 1/2 the time)

Wakes: around 7:30am

ivybug · January 2010

DS is 3.5 and just stopped taking naps (though he does have an hr of quiet playtime in his room). He usually goes down between 8-9pm every night and wakes at 8am every morning

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