Describe your bed time routine...

Petunia844 · December 2012

I feel like its time to introduce a routine, not a schedule, but a routine to do after his last evening bottle so he learns a bed time trigger. I want to do bottle, bath, jammies, song, bed. DH thinks he doesn't need a bath every day yet, but I think it's not much of a routine if you take out the bath. So, what do you do?

Ladiebug710 · December 2012

The bath really helps to relax LO so it is definately an important part of our routine.

We do bath, lotion/baby massage, breast, bed.

WearingRed · December 2012

Bath and showers are part of our wake up routine. Bed time is outfit change with diaper change, book read in big sister room, 5 mins cuddle with big SIS with night time music, back to our room for last feeding, put in swing half awake to go to sleep.

csquared426 · December 2012

Bath every other night, bottle, swaddle, time with daddy, then put in her crib.

KJsbabe · December 2012

We usually do bath every other night, but lately since starting solids it's been every night. Our bedtime routine is bath, lotion, diaper and pjs, breast with a story or singing, into the crib in her sleep sack.

adoxyinherear · December 2012

We started a routine with DD when she was about two and a half months. She was already starting to get sleepy around the same time every night, so it seemed like it was a good time to start. We do have a bath every night, but we don't always use soap and we make sure to let her play for at least fifteen minutes (the pedi told us anything less will dry out baby's skin). So, bath sometime between 7:30 and 8:30, diaper, jammies, nursing, and she falls asleep on DH or me anywhere between 8:30 and 9:30. Then we put her in her crib and she STTN

IEtoLA · December 2012

Your plan looks good. We do bath every other night for now, lotion, pj's, a round of goodnight kisses and hugs, BF, burp, swaddle and put in bed drowsy.

johnnys june · December 2012

We do bath. It's only 5-10 minutes (sometimes less). I combine bath, playtime, and singing all in one. She usually chews on a rubber ducky or some other rubber toy while I bathe her and sing to her. She loves it. It helps relax her and I'm pretty sure she knows it's "about that time" for bed. Right after bath I get her ready for bed in pj's. Sometimes this includes a short lotion massage, it depends on her mood. If she is already cranky we skip lotion time. After jammies I take her to bed with me and sideline nurse her. She's always eaten as she's falling to sleep (since birth). No matter how many ways I tried I just cannot feed her first. The key is consistency though. As she gets older we'll introduce story time. Right now she isn't interested.

Bathtime is quite literally an activity to help her unwind. I've heard of giving a bath but not using any soap. I'm not too strict about the soap I use, but she loves the Johnson and Johnson nighttime lavender.

Junebug060609 · December 2012

Bath, pjs, brush his teeth, milk stories, say goodnight to the animals in one of his wall hangings, kiss and then put in his crib. I always say the same thing as I leave "goodnight, D. I'll see you when you wake up in the morning".

We established a routine when we did sleep training at six months. I wish I'd done it sooner. It helps him to know what is coming.

luvmyducks · December 2012

At that age we did bath (soap every other day), lotion, jammies, swaddle, nurse, bed.

When she got a little older, we would put a space heater in her room and lay down a blanket and have naked time before jammies and read some books and sing songs with Violet--and then the rest of the routine.

drvst8 · December 2012

I've tried to keep DD on somewhat of a schedule since she came home. Bath every other night. Lotion, diaper, jammies and bottle. Then we all go to the bedroom at thesame time. She lays with me till she gets drowsy. Usually between 9 and 10. Then we swaddle. if she wants more bottle we give it to her. Then she goes in the RnP. Usually she wakes up and pick her up...but she goes right back to sleep and I put her back down and she is out for at least 5 hours. Hopefully soon she will be sleeping in her crib

JulyMomma2U2 · December 2012

DS gets a bath in the morning, so no bath at night.. We do reflux meds, then upstairs for Jammie's and dipper change, DH or I feed him while the other reads a story.. Once he is done eating, in the crib he goes... We turn on his sound machine, and his glow worm and kiss him goodnight and he does the rest. Usually he is sleep in under 5 minutes!

spincat9 · December 2012

We have never done a bath every day (definitely more frequently during the summer/days we go to the park, etc.). Too much on her very sensitive skin and she just doesn't get that dirty.... When DD was younger we would do bathtime during the day, because it was easier than trying to squeeze it in at night. We shifted it to after dinner when she started eating all solid meals, because they can get so messy! lol...

So now we do dinner, bath (every other night), jammies, a little playtime w/Daddy (time permitting), book, reciting the animals on her Noah's ark nightlight, throwing her three lovies into the crib and waving goodnight to them, then sleep.

FWIW, DD doesn't seem bothered at all if there is no bath on a given night.

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