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Bedtime routine with toddlers

kegkeg member
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So my bedtime routine has continued to evolve.  We do dinner, baths every other night or so, jammies, then I put them in their cribs and give them their sippy cups of milk.  I generally then sit outside their cribs and read a couple books.  I feel a little bad I'm not cuddling with them during this time, but I stopped giving them their milk on the bed (there is also a double bed in the room) because it would disintegrate into play time and I was then trying to keep two kids from falling off the bed.  I couldn't even think of reading to them in that situation.  Do any of you have a similar setup (milk and stories while the monkeys are contained) or have any suggestions? 
2004-Started TTC; Nov 2007-Lap with endo removed; Jan 2008-Ectopic (mtx); April 2008-IVF #1 (bfp, twin girls); March 2011-FET (cp); June 2012-IVF #2 (bfp, singleton, EDD 3-19-12)

***Twin fraternal girls born at 35w6d in 12/2008***

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Re: Bedtime routine with toddlers

  • macchiattomacchiatto member

    DH and I do bedtime together most nights, which is great. We do offer the boys sippies at bedtime but they don't drink much at that time anymore; they drink most of their milk during meals and earlier in the evening.

    So then for the bedtime routine, we do baths a couple times a week, and then lotion, PJs, sleep sacks, rock while we sing 1-2 lullabies, bedtime prayer, one last cuddle and put them to bed. We haven't incorporated bedtime stories yet (we do read during the day) but probably will when they're a little older and can sit through a story rather than trying to eat the book.

    fraternal twin boys born january 2009
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  • JustaKidAtHeartJustaKidAtHeart

    dinner, baths (every night but soap only a few times a week), lotion, diapers, PJ, pacci (they dont get milk after dinner because we brush their teeth in the bath and they dont drink it anyway) and in bed.  I kiss them goodnight and cover them DH sits and reads them a story.  He says that most nights they sit and look at him or jump.  But as soon as he leaves we can hear them settle. 

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  • lajolla09.30.06lajolla09.30.06
    We do milk at dinner and then they can drink a little more while they're playing if they want but definitely not any more after they get their bath.  Our every night bedtime routine is bath, brush teeth, jammies, story time and then in bed.  We leave while they're awake and they go to sleep within about 10 minutes usually.
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