If your child has to wake up around 6:00am...

nikkimom77 · March 2011

If your LO gets up around 6:00am or 6:30am, what time do they go to bed?

What time do you have dinner? nap? snacktime?

My LO will be starting a toddler program and will need to get up around 6:00am and so I am trying to figure out a new schedule. Right now, he goes to bed between 8:00 and 8:30 and gets up around 7:00am. We eat dinner between 6:30 and 7:00, have snack at 4:00pm and nap from 1:00-3:50pm. I don't think this will work with the new schedule.

Any insight would be great! TIA.

slmcronelaw · March 2011

We get home from work around 5:15, she usually has a snack while I am cooking dinner. We have dinner by 6 or 6:15 (usually). We usually try to play, read, or do something interactive (if it's not bath night) with DD after dinner and she goes to bed between 7 and 7:30 and she gets up between 6 and 6:30. I believe she normally takes a nap from 11 to about 1 or so at the sitter..sometimes depends, but it's usually a 2 hour nap

Blue1299 · March 2011

DD has to get up for daycare around 6 am, here's her schedule:

6 - wake up

7:15 - breakfast at daycare

11:00 - lunch

12 - 3 - nap

3:30 - "dinner" at daycare

5:30 - pick up, snack in the car

6:30 - dinner at home

7:00 - bath

7:30 - bed, asleep by 8

superaunt · March 2011

she has to be up by 545 during the week so goes to bed no later than 630.

dinner is as soon as we get home- which is around 430. it's dinner for her only right now. she gets a little snack before bed, too.

basically: up by 545, bottle, out the door at 6, daycare at 630, breakfast at 830 (sometimes they give her some cheerios beforehand), lunch at 1130, snack at 315, home/dinner 430-445, snack 6, bed 630.

DH and i don't eat dinner to well after baby is in bed. we all eat together every meal on the weekends.

only1erin · March 2011

on days i work i have to wake ds up around 6. i give him cut up fruit as soon as i put him in the car (we have about a 30 min drive). i'm not sure what time he eats breakfast and lunch (and snacks) and my parent's house. after we get home he usually eats dinner anywhere from 5:45-6:30. he gets into the bath at 7 and is in bed after that...around 7:15.

xtencornfield · March 2011

DS's schedule looks like this (he's still on two naps a day):

6-6:30 am wake
6:45 am bottle
7:30 arrive at daycare
8 am breakfast at daycare
morning nap
11 am lunch
afternoon nap
~3 pm snack
4:55 arrive home
5-5:30 dinner (sometime we can hold him off until we have our dinner ready and then we share, and sometimes not)
6:45 bath
7-7:15 bedtime

pink.dutch.tulips · March 2011

we start getting her down at 7:30-8p

she gets picked up from dc at 5:15pish and has a snack en route home, dinner is around 6-6:15pish

lunch is at 12:30ish followed by naptime from 1-3p .. from what dc tells me, once this girl's head hits the pillow she's OUT !

nat8 · March 2011

6:30 - wake up
6:50 breakfast
8:15 arrive at daycare
8:45 snack at daycare
11:15 lunch
11:45 nap
3:00 snack
5:10 pick up from daycare - she gets a very small snack on the way home
5:45 dinner
7:15 bath (if bath night - every other day)
between 7:30-8:00 bed time

hokies94 · March 2011

DS doesn't have to be up any particular time, but he gets up around 6:30 everyday.

On a normal day he goes to bed between 6:30 and 7. He eats dinner between 5:30 and 6. Naps from 12-3. Snack is whenever he starts getting hungry. Some days he skips it some days it's around 4.

DS is in preschool one day a week until 1:15. Those days he doesn't nap until 1:30 and will sleep until about 4. He still goes to bed by 7 those nights (maybe 7:15). He's very go with the flow-changes to his very loose schedule don't bother him. He also sleeps a lot!

Sounds like you may need to move his nap up a bit.

NewMrs52106 · March 2011

DD wakes up around 6 (sometimes a little earlier) and goes to bed around 6:30. She naps from 11-1 (on a good day she'll do the full 2 hours). She eats when she wakes up, then at 8, then at 11, then at 1 or 2, then between 4 and 5. We eat dinner a bit after 5.

slukd79 · March 2011

My LO's schedule:

6:30: Up/change diaper/clothes/eat breakfast & milk

6:45: Leave for childcare and drop off (only 3-5 minutes away)

7:00: I leave for work

8:00: Yogurt/Cheerios for snack

10-11: Nap

12:00: Lunch

2:30-3:30: Nap

3:30: Picked up from daycare

3:45: Snack at home

5:30: Dinner

5:45: Bath

6:00: Book & Milk

6:15/6:30: Bed

Jessys_Girl · March 2011

DD gets up around 5:30 (on her own) and our schedule looks like this:

5:30am--wake/6oz bottle

6:15am--leave for work/babysitter's

7am--arrive at babysitter's eat "breakfast" and play

(I leave from there for work around 7:30)

8:30 or 9 am -- 1st nap

10:00 or 10:30 -- wake up, morning snack/bottle/sippy cup

12 noon -- Lunch

2ish--2nd nap

3:30-- wake, afternoon snack/bottle/sippy

5--I pick her up and she takes a 20ish minute nap in the car

5:20/5:30 p -- home, make DD's dinner (something quick and easy that she can eat while I cook mine and DH's)

6:00/6:15--DH and i eat, DD plays while we eat

7 or 7:15ish begin bedtime routine (bath or pjs or book or whatever)

DD Is usually asleep by 7:30 or 7:45.

AmandaToo · March 2011

She sleeps approximately 11-12 hours, variably. We do bedtime at about 6:15. Why not just work backwards from 6 AM, counting back the number of hours LO usually sleeps, around 11-ish it looks like. You might need to move dinner up - we did.

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