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How do you handle bedtimes? Do you put them both/all down at same time?
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They bathe together. Then one of us takes DD, feeds her a bottle and puts her down. The other one take DS, reads him books and puts him down. When I was doing it all by myself (when DH was recovering from surgery), I would bathe DD, feed her and put her down. Then bathe DS, read him books and put him down.
On weekends, we let DS stay up a little later. They still bathe together but DS gets to stay up and play while DD is fed and put to bed.
We have always alternated bedtimes.
When younger DD was an infant, I put her to bed as early as 6 pm most days. I'm a SAHM so it was helpful to have one down pretty early so that the dreaded "witching hour" was easier to deal with.
Alternating bedtimes also gives me some one-on-one time with my older DD in the evenings. In the mornings it's the opposite since our younger one usually wakes up first.
This is almost exactly how we do it. Most nights they're put down together with each of taking one (assuming DH is home). Otherwise O gets to stay up a little later and watch something on tv.
This exactly. Having a DH who travels a lot and/or works very late some nights, this routine is a must IMO.
I usually bathe them together, Mathis gets a shorter bath and gets in his PJs with T still in the bath. When M is 100% ready to go, T could either stay in the tub and play or could sit and watch one show while I put Mathis down. Then I will read to T and he will go to sleep. It's usually about 30-45 minutes after M.
When DH is home, he does bath and gets M in his pajamas. He likes to put M down now that he doesn't nurse any more. It's their bonding time. I get T in his pajamas and after M is down, DH has time with T reading books and holding hands before sleep.
When my girls were 2 and infant, we'd put the 2 year old down first according to her regular routine. The infant didn't go down until 9 or 10, and having the 2 year old try to help with the infant's bath just didn't work except for the first couple "isn't this so cute" times. So bathed separately etc.
Before the infant was a year though -- when she made the transition to an earlier bedtime, we started combining things. We'd bathe both at same time, read them books together and then my DH would put the older one down while I did a final nursing for the baby.
Now everything is together. We climb into the 4 year old's bed to do story time and then they go to their separate beds.
Hope that helps!
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yes! this is an important qualification. when M was a new baby, we kind of winged it. he would still usually go down 1st but that was because he was tired for the night earlier than T's normal bedtime. but at that point, everything was separate. it was separate until mathis was no longer in an infant tub (7 mos approx) and then we started them bathing together
They bathe together and then J goes down first. Avery goes down about 30-45 minutes after him.
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I bathe Lila and put her down.. Luca's bedtime routine starts about 30 minutes later and DH handles that. She's in bed by 7:30 ish... He's in bed by 8:30...
Husband takes one and I take the other most nights. They go to bed around the same times.
Ours are 9 mos. and 3. Hopefully, they'll be able to share a room and we can consolidate bedtime duties one day.
If I'm alone, I try to get the baby first and then the older one, because I can put the older one in front of the t.v. for a bit.