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Keeping your LO up past bedtime

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I'm just wondering what everyone does when something causes you to have your LO out past their bedtime?  It is not possible to never again be out past 7:30, so I am trying to figure out the best way to handle.  Do you put her in her jammies once her bedtime gets close, so that she can fall asleep and be all ready for bed when you get home, or let her be and deal with it when you get home?  Then, when you do get home, if she is asleep in her carseat do you leave her there until she wakes up, or risk waking her up and put her in bed? 

I have such anxiety over things like this, even just with taking her places in the first place...where will I change her, how will I find a private place to feed her, what if she gets fussy, etc.?  I want to be able to just relax and have fun, and enjoy taking her out and doing things, but it makes me so incredibly nervous that I normally end up just staying home with her.  Am I the only one who is like this?  

Edit to add that part of my nervousness about keeping her out late is that she has finally gotten on somewhat of a schedule with going to bed at a decent time, so I am worried that she will get thrown off of this if we keep her up late. 
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Re: Keeping your LO up past bedtime

  • mojito14mojito14

    Our schedule is such that there always going to be a day or two a week that ds2 is not home for his bedtime.

    I just let him fall asleep on the way home (really not much you can do about this one). Once we are home, I get him out of his carseat (at this point he is waking up). Take him upstairs, change his diaper, put his jammies on him, dim the lights, nurse him, burp him and put him down. He has never had a problem falling back to sleep.

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  • snoopysnopersonsnoopysnoperson

    My DD has a late bedtime....usually 9:30pm (she set this, not me. I tried and tried for earlier but she won't do it). But she sleeps in till 9 or 10am the next morning. If you don't have to be up early in the morning, I suppose you can try to move her bedtime back a little to give you some more time.

    I have anxieties too about taking her out places.....I always leave right after a feeding and try to be back by the next one or I feed/change her in my car. I have also fed in a restaurant fine, but that is about it.

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  • xtencornfieldxtencornfield member

    I don't really worry about it and we've never had a problem when he's been out past his bedtime.  However, all of those times have been when he's at the IL's and they're babysitting, LOL.  We just tell them to put him in his jammies or not, it doesn't matter.  Last time he was awake when we went to pick him up at 10 pm but he went straight to sleep when we got home.  It didn't really seem to affect his schedule/routine at all.  I wouldn't stress out about it so much.  Whatever happens, it's not going to permnantely mess anything up:o)

    ETA: DS's normal bedtime is 7:30 pm (although we're trying to move him up to 8 pm right now).

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  • skiwic8skiwic8
    I am just like you! LO has an early bedtime.  Last feeding around 6 and he is in bed around 7 or 7:30. And he gets up at 5am not matter what time he goes down.  I try to be home no later than 6:30.  Honestly, it's not even fun to be out that late because by 5:30 or 6 he is so done.  I feel like he's only going to be this little once so if I can't go out in the evenings so be it.  DH on the other hand isn't quite on the same page yet. 
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  • megann831megann831
    I put her in her pjs before we go home and she'll usually stay asleep when I bring her in from the car seat.  If its well past bedtime and she's getting fussy, I'd try to get her to sleep in her stroller or something
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  • ldooldoo member

    I stress a ton about it and simply don't go out past her bed time. If you want to see us or the kids, you come to our house. I don't mind giving up a bit of my freedom for this very short period of my child's life.

    And I know it won't be a massive deal to screw with her bedtime here or there, but I stress about it SO much that it's not even worth it.

    In regards to your LO being fussy when you're out, where to feed her and change her - now that I'd relax a bit about. Get a Hooter Hider and screw people who may be uncomfortable with you nursing. I change my baby on the floor if I have to (not if it's nasty or anything) and if she's fussy, so be it. You're her mom - you can calm her down. If not, then maybe head home.

    But really, I'm right there with you on the sleep thing. The only time I'll be out past her bedtime is like Christmas Eve. And even then I stress. :)

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