Just out of Curiosity - Bed Time....

[allycat06]

oh I am so jealous of you all! DS goes to bed anywhere between 9 and 11.30 and that's the way it's always been. If we're out he flatly refuses to sleep until we're home. He's not cranky, just so damn alert!! That being said we don't get out of bed until about 10am which works for me as I am definitely not a morning person

[Arcadia]

Dd used to be 7 on the dot, then around 12 months she started transitioning to one day sleep, meaning if she had two sleeps she would be up till 9 pm. Now we're back to 7pm

I always let her set the routine. It's worked well for us.

[~Hestia~]

DS has 2, sometimes 3 sleeps per day, depending on what time he's woken up in the morning.
I give him dinner at 5pm & he is usually wanting bed by 6pm, no matter what time he got up in the morning. I've tried stretching him out but he won't have a bar of it!!

[ElleJay]

oh I am so jealous of you all! DS goes to bed anywhere between 9 and 11.30 and that's the way it's always been. If we're out he flatly refuses to sleep until we're home. He's not cranky, just so damn alert!! That being said we don't get out of bed until about 10am which works for me as I am definitely not a morning person

You and me both!
DS has only JUST lately started going to bed anywhere between 6:30pm and 8pm and then waking between 1am and 3am for a feed then going back to sleep till between 6am and 7:30am
But before this (this has only been a week long thing - he does that too.. Makes something one week long, gives us hope for sleeping then *bam!* hits us with a new routine.. We're hoping this one sticks) he wouldn't sleep until 9:30-10pm and wake at 2am on the dot, then wake again at 4am on the dot and then wake and stay awake at 6am and I was just frazzled by the end of this (still am, but not as bad)

[Fleur]

Depends on the day and how she has slept during the day. e.g. tonight she was in bed and asleep by 6.30 because she wouldn't have an afternoon sleep so was knackered by then!
Normally when our day routine has gone to plan, I try and put her to bed between 7 & 7.30pm. However sometimes she doesn't want to go to sleep then (like last night!) and it may be 8 or 8.30 before she is finally asleep.

:yeahthat: Exactly the same here

Sorry to hi-jack but can I ask all of those with babies going to sleep around 7ish I am assuming they are then going to sleep for the night? Is that something they have done by themselves or have you worked on them going to sleep and staying asleep? My DD goes to sleep at 7 but treats it like a nap and then won't go into her night time sleep until 10 ish so was wondering if other babies develop this earlier bedtime naturally or have some help to get to there?

It's both kind of her own thing and something we have worked on.. part of the benefit of a nighttime routine is it creates the definition between night & day KWIM?
So DD knows when she has dinner, bath, bottle & quiet play on our bed, that's bedtime. She often wakes soon after, once or twice in the next two or three hours, but we treat it like the middle of the night - no talking, lights down low, just soothing her back to sleep.
I do suspect though that there are babies out there just like people who work on a different body clock, so your LO could be like that....

[Lana]

Thanks for those responses about the early bedtime interesting to hear what other babies do. We have always done a bedtime routine of bath, boob and bed but it hasn't worked it's magic to indicate to her that's the end of the day. If we try and resettle after she wakes it's either a fight or she might just go back into a really light sleep. If she does go back then instead of waking to start the day at 7 it seems to be 5 or she will have a wakeful period in the middle of the night. Part of me just wants to hear she will find the bedtime without me putting in the work but that seems unlikely...We'll see what the daylight savings change does and then tackle it.