8 month old BEDTIME-- WHAT TIME?

kmdendy · December 2014

What time does your baby go to bed?

My daughter is almost 8 months and has been going to bed around 7:30-8pm but I am thinking that it might need to be moved UP.

THANKS

Teresa1896 · December 2014

6:30. I'd like to keep him up later, but he is DONE by 6:30.

lcr23 · December 2014

9:30 but trying to move it up to 8:30.

deidremaria · December 2014

Teresa1896 said:
6:30. I'd like to keep him up later, but he is DONE by 6:30.

OP, you posted this while I was about to post it. I didn't because I felt like I'd be asking something that's been asked already. Thanks for posting. All that to say... This.

snowbound · December 2014

Used to be 6-6:30 but we have moved it to 7-7:30 and have tried adding a nap. He started waking up two hours after we put him down. I thought id experiment since he was treating his first stretch of sleep like a nap.

hlm184 · December 2014

7.

ChelK3 · December 2014

Usually 10. Sometimes 11. Is this weird/bad for him to be going to sleep this late?

BeckyF82 · December 2014

About 8.30pm. Would love her to go to sleep at 6.30 straight after dinner but for those two hours she's crazy hyper. Can't have dinner any earlier because I don't get home from work till then.

ambarnett1 · December 2014

Asleep by 7.

Rrrrrachel · December 2014

5-6. On day care days could be like 4:30.

chichi589 · December 2014

Anytime between 630 - 8 depending on his naps during the day.

Dixon813 · December 2014

I say 7, but most nights it's 6:30. Unfortunately, we don't usually have dinner until 6:15. So he often has dinner and then off to bed.

littlesocks · December 2014

Asleep by 7:30 but she shows signs of being tired around 6:00 but I keep her awake so I can spend time with her. She's not a great sleeper and I'm now thinking it's because she's overtired by the time she goes to bed.
DD will fall asleep nursing but 95% of the time she wakes up 30-45 minutes later and needs to be bounced to sleep.

I'd love to see this Q&A with bedtime AND time they get up in the morning.

ladygali · December 2014

Recently we moved bedtime up to 6:30 ish and he goes down much easier. It was taking hours before: nurse, fall asleep, try to put down, wake up, repeat several times. Earlier is definitely better.

mooncusp22 · December 2014

DD is 8.5months old and since at least 6months old she decided that bedtime starts about 6pm....asleep by 6:30pm usually. Then up by 7/7:30am, SSTN

Talltrees82 · December 2014

7:30, definitely by 8pm. He gets up around 7:30am.

dmosquera4 · December 2014

Routine starts at 8 sleep by 830 his last nap is between 5 or 6 sleeps an 30m to an hr then to sleep. He wakes up anytime froM 3am to 5am once to eat the back to bed again till 8 or 9 am

emilyann64 · December 2014

It all depends on the last nap, but usually asleep by 7-8.

bacorrea · December 2014

All this week DD as been asleep between 7-8. She is up at 5 which is super rough.

rtv3 · December 2014

Asleep between 6:30 and 7, up usually 12ish hrs later (with 1-2 MOTN wake-ups).

hordol · December 2014

He is ready for bed between 5:30
And 6:00 or so. Usually asleep by 6:30 at the latest. As much as I would love him to be up later he is just done by that time. He has no interest in trying to stay up longer. Plus he has to be up by 6:30am for day care so it works out.

kseccomb17 · December 2014

9:30 on the dot every night since he was born.

Jodash24 · December 2014

10-11pm and that's sometime a struggle, and Motn feeds as early as 1am... Sleep little one!

heids4787 · December 2014

On days Elise attends DC, she usually takes a very convenient nap while I'm cooking dinner and then goes down for the night around 7:30 pm. She'll wake up as many as 3 times with 1 MOTN pumped bottle and I usually wake her for the day by 7ish before DC drop-off.

On my days off, she takes better naps, so can go down between 7:30/8:30 pm... But still can wake multiple times and maybe sleep until 8 am if I'm really lucky. 6 am wake ups have been common, too... Last night she only woke once at 3 am for a feeding and then I woke up to her cooing at 8 am. It was amazing!!

Ksample89 · December 2014

Sleeping by 7-7:15. She wakes up 1-2X a night to eat. Every once in the blue moon she sleeps through the night. Up by 6:30-7 and ready to play.

nicole mackenzie · December 2014

AprilMay9 said:
830ish. I can't believe some babies are asleep at 6. I literally wouldn't even get to see dd if that was the case since I'm not home from work. Sometimes she will fall asleep closer to 7:30 or 9 but 830 is generally when she goes down. She used to sttn and I would wake her at 6 but lately she's been getting herself up around 5

Yeah. On the days I work I don't get home until 7...

Ill usually nurse and snuggle and she'll cat nap while DH makes supper. Then we all eat, then bath, and to bed. Usually 9pm.

Soon2bStaff · December 2014

After work, I pick LO up from the sitters at 6 and home by 6:15-6:30. Dinner then tubby at 7:30, and bed between 8:15-8:45. She always sttn until she cut a tooth on the 1st... Up 2-4 times lately but the last two nights was only once so fingers crossed she's getting back to normal!

Eta: she usually wakes up between 6:30-7:30

Merlyna04 · December 2014

I am jealous my DD sleep around 11:30pm or 12:00pm

vettymama · December 2014

Asleep between 7:30 - 8:30, 2 or 3 motn wakings, and up for the day around 7. DH gets home around 5:30 or 6 so it's nice for him to spend time with the boys.

cd92007 · December 2014

Always between 7:30 and 8 even if I try to move it earlier. @dani I have a 5 am baby... I'm so desperate for him to sleep in until 6

hopefully someday.....

zazu13 · December 2014

We aim for 7, but usually they are done by 6:30.

penguinjenny · December 2014

@mborn24‌ my LO is the same. I don't know if you're EBF but we alternate who wakes up with LO so we both a real chunk of sleep.

LO goes to bed 7:30-8 and wakes up every 3 hours until she wakes up for the day at 8-ish.

Jenifwest · December 2014

My 7 month old goes to bed around 9:30 or 10 up at 6:30 most days. If we try to put him to bed any sooner he wakes up too early but he sttn 90% of the time. So late to bed but no wake ups unless his teething is really getting to him.

Mport90 · December 2014

EBF, asleep usually by 8:30 wakes up around 4 am and again around 6 am for feeds goes back to sleep until usually 8-9 am. He is eating 2-3 veggies/fruits/snacks a day.... he is a big boy, wonder what will happen in a few months when we don't breastfeed back to sleep anymore? Any mom's with previous experience?

chirico3 · December 2014

Merlyna04 said:

I am jealous my DD sleep around 11:30pm or 12:00pm

Me too! If she falls asleep before 10 it's a good night - and I have no idea how to meve sleep time earlier, she just doesn't want to sleep. Even if she falls asleep after dinner (around 7pm), she wakes up no later than 8pm.

CosmoAnne1 · December 2014

Nap, then dinner or dinner and nap about 630. Up about 730. Then bed around 830. We co sleep and I nurse every time he wakes it's the only way I get any sleep. He wakes about every 1.5 hrs right now. We are up for the day between 6-7.

pallaviwankhs · December 2014

Sleep routine starts around 7:30-7:45. She sleeps in arnd 15 mins.
Some nights, she does wake up once, drinks a couple ounces of milk and then goes back to sleep.
Please baby please, do not read this and jinx our set schedule!

BTW, she does wake up around 5:45-6am. We have tried letting her cry when she wakes up but she keeps coughing for some reason. So, I end up breastfeeding her to soothe/stop cough.
If anyone knows how I can get her to sleep in atleast until 6:30am, please do share.

JanMommy2under2 · December 2014

8:30-9, as a stay at home mom it works with my schedule because he wakes up at 7:30 to eat, then goes back to bed until 9:30 or 10am, so I get plenty of sleep that way.

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