Bedtimes.

[CrazyLady]

DD goes down between 8 and 8:30 and will sleep til 7am. I tried putting her down earlier but she was waking at 4am and not resettling. Now she's into the 8ish routine she doesn't fight me and gathers her water cup before saying "bye bye" to her dad and pottering off to bed. We were putting her down at 7ish but she would just fight us so much. She doesn't seem to need a lot of sleep and will only have a 1 and a half hour nap in the day.

[ss_storm]

DD goes to bed between 7.30 & 8. You might find as she gets older and starts dropping day sleeps that she'll be tired earlier and will want (need) to go to bed earlier. But for the moment if what you are doing is working fine for her and you, then don't fix what isn't broken

[Visitor7]

DD1 & DD2 go to bed at 8pm, DD3 goes to bed at 6.30pm. DD2 & DD3 wake at 6.30-7am and DD1 wakes at 8.30am (she's not a morning person lol).

[MummaSue]

Thanks everyone. I just wondered what others do. You're right, we do what works for us. I'm just currently struggling with the length of time it takes sometimes to get DD over to sleep. It can range from 20 minutes to 2.5 hours. *sigh*

[Indadhanu]

Whatever works for you works for you. Jazz is the same. Some nights its incredibley frustrating but she sleeps better going to bed a bit later, and it's her routine I guess. She gets up ridiclously early though. I struggle through the later nights, and Shel struggles through the mornings but it works for us so Whatever works. Don't let anyone elses choices make you feel like your choices are wrong, when they're actuall right for you.



Your DD is really still very young, and it still takes jazz ages to fall asleep too. Some kids are just like that Doesn't make it easier, but at least you know she's still onthe range of normal

[CinderToriella]

Do you have a night time routine Sue?
Does she feed to sleep?

[MummaSue]

Thanks guys. Yeah, she has a good wee routine. We have dinner, then she has some messy food play with daddy, bath time, quiet time while we get her jammies on, depending on how tired she looks we sometimes all just sit and have quiet play then it's bedtime with the Music for Dreaming CD on, story time and a feed to sleep. Some nights I let her roll around in the cot which is attached to our bed if she doesn't look too tired. It's really 50/50 whether she goes down quickly or quietly.