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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
LOs bedtime?
What time does your little one go to bed? Wake up? If your LO goes to bed late have you tried to put them on a earlier schedule?
Cooper goes to bed 9:30-10 and wakes up usually 9:30-10. H and I talked about trying an earlier bed time AGAIN. We have failed in the past so if anyone has any tips I would appreciate it.
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Re: LOs bedtime?
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AB goes down at 7:30, and we're pretty adamant about it. After a whole day with her by myself, I need the adult time and I need time to sit and do nothing, watch TV, and totally space out. She USED to get up at 7:30 like clockwork, but lately I'm happy if she stays down until 7. Monday was 6:30, yesterday was 6:20, today was like 6:50.
I'd try moving his schedule gradually, maybe 15-20 minute intervals. And I know it's the biggest sin of baby sleep, but I'd start waking him earlier (again, gradually) to see if you can adjust at both ends.
It's usually 9 before DD is in bed. We start the bedtime routine at 8, but she's been taking a while to go down lately. I get her up at 7 on weekday mornings, and on the weekends she'll sleep in till 8-9.
I'd maybe just try moving his bedtime REALLY gradually. Like one night 5 minutes earlier, do that for a few nights, then another 5 minutes earlier, and so on.
We put E to sleep around 7 - 7:30 and he sleeps until 8:30 - 9:00. He also takes a 2 - 2.5 hour nap during the day.
He is a really great sleeper though - he has been giving us 10 - 12 hours at night since 4 months old.
He goes down by 7pm and I wake him at 6:45am on weekdays. He will sleep until 7-7:15 on weekends.
Before I went back to work (at 13 mos) he was going to bed later, waking later. Like others suggested, we moved his bedtime by 15-20 mins at a time. Make sure to wake him 15-20mis earlier the next morning.
If your LO is used to falling asleep when it's dark, you might try blackout curtains.
We put DS in his crib around 7:45 and he generally seems to fall asleep around 8:15 or so. I don't have a whole lot of advice, other than shifting his nap. DS has always gone to bed a little earlier - this current bedtime is actually a little later than when he used to go down at < 18 months.
ETA: He wakes up sometime during the 6:00 hour.
I enforce a 7:00 bedtime for my DD and an 8:00 bedtime for my DS because I seriously need an hour or two of downtime at night before I go to bed. I would go crazy if I had kids up until 10pm. They wakeup between 6:30 and 7 in the morning.
If you want him to go to bed earlier you should start waking him up earlier in the morning. It might take a week or two, but his body will naturally adapt and he will start going to bed earlier.
My DD goes down between 7:30-8 (it used to be 7 before DST), and usually wakes up for the day around 8.
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DS goes to bed anytime between 8-8:45pm. He wakes up anywhere from 7-9am.
He takes about a 2 hour nap everyday.
This is us exactly. Daycare really tires our DD out.
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babies-6:45 bed and they wake at 6:30 (we get them out of the cribs at 7:00)
My oldest-bed is at 7:00 but, we usually let her watch one or two Nick Jr shows so, asleep between 7:45-8:00. She is always awake when we get up at 6:15.
Our boys are on the same schedule apparently.
DS goes to bed about 9:30pm and is up about 8:30/9am. At one point, DS was staying up until 11p-12a. It lasted for about 2-3 weeks and we slowly got it back to 9:30p. It works for our schedules, even though it is a little later than I would like. I don't normally get home until about 6:15/6:30p, so this gives us time to eat dinner as a family, spend some time together and also do his bath, before putting him down.
She goes to bed at 8 and is asleep by 8:30 at the latest- usually sooner. She wakes up between 6 and 6:30 most days.
I am happy with her bedtime and wouldn't want it to be earlier. It used to be 7 p.m. and it really put a damper on any evening plans.
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