How can I push back her bedtime???

Melly Mel · September 2010

At 6:30 like clockwork, DD has a melt down and wants to go to bed. I giver her a bottle and put her down. Somtimes I am able to stretch it for 15 min and I have tried holding off the bath but nothing really seems to help. She turns into a different child if she does not go to sleep around this time. She is then waking up around 3 or 4 soaked and wanting a bottle and then goes right back down till about 8. I know she is sleeping a lot, I just wish that I could eliminate the early morning feeding and have her sleep through. Anyone else have a LO that goes to bed this early? TIA!

eilathen · September 2010

DD will automatically wake up if I take her outside, she LOVES it. Something that also works for us, is to take her into the brightly lit bathroom and let her socialize with her reflection. HTH!

Melly Mel · September 2010

eilathen:

DD will automatically wake up if I take her outside, she LOVES it. Something that also works for us, is to take her into the brightly lit bathroom and let her socialize with her reflection. HTH!

We do this too. I take her on the porch or for a walk but it still only works for a few minutes.

emmyloustu · September 2010

I personally would not try to push back her bedtime, she is clearly tired. Why would you want to push her to stay awake longer? If you really need her awake later at night, perhaps you should readjust your day so she gets a good late afternoon nap, but in general, I think if she is giving you cues she is ready for bed at that time, you should listen. Sleep begets sleep.

E is in bed by 7pm 99% of the time. She still has one night waking - I change her and feed her and she goes back down. She is sleeping 12+ hrs a night and napping another few hours during the day.

Melly Mel · September 2010

emmyloustu:

I personally would not try to push back her bedtime, she is clearly tired. Why would you want to push her to stay awake longer? If you really need her awake later at night, perhaps you should readjust your day so she gets a good late afternoon nap, but in general, I think if she is giving you cues she is ready for bed at that time, you should listen. Sleep begets sleep.

E is in bed by 7pm 99% of the time. She still has one night waking - I change her and feed her and she goes back down. She is sleeping 12+ hrs a night and napping another few hours during the day.

I guess I was listening to the pedi too much telling me that she should go to bed later and eliminate that feeding. I don't want her to be miserable which is why I let her go to sleep when she is ready, but I thought that 6:30 was rather early.

glasgow_girl · September 2010

My DD starts showing signs around 6:30 of being sleepy, but it sometimes depends on what her day schedule was like. Sometimes her last nap at DC will have her waking at 2. Going from then until we get home is a long time for her.

We just play it by ear. If she is giving you sleepy cues, go with them. We do, and sometimes she is asleep for the night, sometimes just until 8. We've learned to just deal with it as it happens!

emmyloustu · September 2010

Melly Mel:
emmyloustu:

I personally would not try to push back her bedtime, she is clearly tired. Why would you want to push her to stay awake longer? If you really need her awake later at night, perhaps you should readjust your day so she gets a good late afternoon nap, but in general, I think if she is giving you cues she is ready for bed at that time, you should listen. Sleep begets sleep.

E is in bed by 7pm 99% of the time. She still has one night waking - I change her and feed her and she goes back down. She is sleeping 12+ hrs a night and napping another few hours during the day.

I guess I was listening to the pedi too much telling me that she should go to bed later and eliminate that feeding. I don't want her to be miserable which is why I let her go to sleep when she is ready, but I thought that 6:30 was rather early.

Yeah, I am not sure I agree with your pedi on that one at all. If you think you need to/want to eliminate her one night waking, there are plenty of sleep training methods to help with that without adjusting her bedtime. Is she napping enough during the day?

Eventually I will try to break E of her one nightfeeding, but not yet. I believe she is truly hungry, she is BF and formula fed and rarely takes more than 4oz at a time, so I have no doubt that she is hungry after 7 or so hrs.

I think many ladies on this board start bedtime in the 6-7hr.

*LrCg* · September 2010

As she gets older, she'll push back the time. I remember with my first he was in bed by 6:30 pm and slept until @6:30-7 am. Around 6 months old he did 7pm-7am and it kept pushing back to 7:30 pm and I know by 1 year he was 8pm (and he's 2 and is still 8pm). My second (who is 6 months old) goes to bed at 7pm and wakes up @ 7am. I wish just so we could spend more time with her that she's stay up longer but I know in time she will. As for the morning feeding, she'll grow out of it. If she eats and immeidately goes back to bed then she's obviously hungry.

ldoo · September 2010

Mine goes to be at about 6:45. She is really ready then. Is she taking an early evening nap? That might be key.

In terms of eliminating that feeding, her bed time really doesn't have much to do with it. My daughter STTN and goes to bed at the same time as yours. But that's because I worked hard at eliminating the feeding. When she would wake up, I would gradually wait longer each night before feeding her. Then I was able to just give her the paci. Then she stopped waking up.

It's not perfect every night. Sometimes she wakes at 4 or 5ish. In fact, I think she did this morning. I clearly fell right back asleep, and she obviously did too.

Last week she woke one morning at 4:30, but since she was sick, I just fed her and laid her back down.

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