Just out of Curiosity - Bed Time....

[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.