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Tell me abt your bedtime routine with 1 year olds

jcathjcath member
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We have been putting the girls in their rock and plays, giving them a bottle, and while they drank I would read a book and sing a song, then put them in their cribs and they would fuss or not but go to sleep pretty quickly.  They are way too big to be in their rock and plays and they still get a bottle at night but we're hoping to get rid of that shortly.  Now we sit them in their anywhere chairs and give them a bottle but they get up and grab my book and don't always want to sit still.

Any ideas to make a smoother, better, calmer routine? 

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Re: Tell me abt your bedtime routine with 1 year olds

  • MuseumMavenMuseumMaven member

    Here's what we did at 1 year:

    • Dinner
    • Bath
    • PJs
    • Sit on my lap and read two or three books
    • Nurse
    • Song or two
    • Cribs 

    We still do basically the same thing, but we've cut out nursing now.  I expect we'll keep this routine for a very long time.

    Could you hold them while they get their bottles and read?  I think it sends the message of settling down a little better, and would keep them from getting up and running around.

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  • jcathjcath member
    My girls are horrible sitting in my lap together - they steal each other's bottles or just poke and prod each other.  They did better last night sitting in their chairs and letting me read.  Thanks for the input!
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  • LithgirlLithgirl
    we basically have the same exact routine as museummave, except that baths are every other night.
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  • SLPMelSLPMel member
    We do baths every 2 nights.  We do dinner at 5, baths at 6/6:15, then we will each give a bottle (if it's just me we do it in the boppy), and then a book, a song, and into bed.  We are also in the process of switching to no bottles and I'm having more difficulty than they are!
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