Now that DD is on solids I give her dinner about 5/5.30, bath after that at about 6, night time bottle at 7 and then into her grobag, say goodnight and into bed at 7.30. There is some playing in between though and she hangs around while I get dinner ready, the whole dinner/bath/bed thing doesn't take very long for us so I have to try and spread it out!
My boy has a fruit snack at 3:30pm, we then I have a bath together at 4pm (to wash off fruit snack that he is invariably wearing!). I give him his solids at 5pm. He then has a little play/digest until 6pm. Then I pop him in his Grobag, give him his bottle and a cuddle and then bed by about 6:15. If he is super tired, we sometimes move the routine forward by a half hour.
ETA: It is really early and often means we don't get to go out in the afternoon, but it is what he has chosen and we are working with that
I can't remember what we did at your bubs age, I really just went with the flow.
Now we give DS dinner at 5ish, then bath, sleeping bag at 6ish, brush teeth, read a book, then loooong feed until about 8pm then when he's fully (he's normally dream feeding by 6:30ish) asleep put him to bed.
We didn't really have a routine at all until we started solids, we just went with the flow and followed DS's cues. I just cant seem to run on a timetable, it (time) always gets away from me somehow Solids REALLY helped with that though. Once we had set times for breakfast, lunch and dinner everything else just fell into place.
ETA - HTH, not sure if that's what you were looking for?
DD2 usualy has a bath around 5ish then has a pre bed sleep in her swing whilst we eat dinner then has a bottle around 7ish and in bed by 7.30ish
i say all this ish because if i say out loud this is our routine something will happen to throw it all out of whack
DS has always had bath at 7pm, into bed by 7.30 (although I may be still reading a story at this point).
Even when it took him hours to go to sleep (he WAS tired, he was just in a lot of pain, before people go on about "if they're not asleep in 20 minutes they aren't tired", which I HATE, try living my life and say that) we did bath at 7pm unless he asked for it earlier. And he does sometimes.
For both my boys (DS1's 23months & DS2's 3months)- i do there bath around 4.30-5pm, dinner 6.30pm (pretty much when DH walks in toe door)- by now DS2 is either sleeping or happily watching us in his rocker, then the bed routine at 7.30pm (DS1- teeth cleaning, pj's, nappy, cuddles, DS2- nappy, into sleep suit and sleeping bag then last b'feed)- by the time these are complete its usually close to 8pm for DS1 and close to 8.30pm for DS2 (cause i try to make it a good feed as DS2 sleeps right through til 6-7am now so want to make sure he has a full belly and its more comfy for me).
This has always been our routine- even for DS1 when he was a newborn. I'm thinking about changing it to the bath after dinner- as of course it makes more sense, but its always just worked doing bath early as that way DH can have some play and cuddle time between dinner and bed time with the boys (which is usually only 30mins by the time dinners finished). But DS1 doesn't make that much mess eating anymore so its not so bad, but it won't be long til DS2 starts solids so might have to change the routine then.
Ive only just started giving DD solids properly (meaning i do it twice a day now) i have been feeding her too late i think, 5.30-6pm so im going to start giving it to her at about 4.30-5pm, she only usually has one nap a day *sigh* so by the end of the day she is very tired. i give her a bath at about 6.30pm and then give her a bottle, sometimes (if she's really tired) she'll fall asleep on the bottle other times she has those really droopy gorgeous eyes that plead.. put me to bed mummy lol. then i put her to bed at about 7pm
ive tried stretching it out btu its hard when Daddies home i can stretch it out coz he can occupy her better than i can coz then she sleeps later in the morning. But yeh, im pretty happy with our routine, ill be trying to stretch her out to 7.30pm in teh next few weeks tho, coz these 5.30am wake ups are not cool LOL
Last edited by Stevie; May 4th, 2010 at 07:40 AM.
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I'm with Kim it took months for DS to 'get' into any sort of routine and at your bub's age we started about 6am but he wouldn't be in bed for the night until after 11pm. By that I mean he would go down about 6.30pm and then wake up at 8.30 and want to be awake if that makes sense?
Yeah its hard, like we like doing the night time same routine if we can, bed feed cuddle bed sort of thing..
she was getting into bed by 10 but we were finding she is just so tired early on so we have moved it up to earlier
tonight DD had bath at 630 and was in bed by 7 , she was just so tired
I started DS pretty much as soon as i could bath him comfortably (had a ceaser) didnt matter when he slept the only routine he had was that he was to have a bath with his sister so it was all out of the way. Now at 4months our routine is
5-530 feed
6-6:30 a little farax
7- bath
7:30-8 feed and bed
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what time?
Solids REALLY helped with that though. Once we had set times for breakfast, lunch and dinner everything else just fell into place.
when Daddies home i can stretch it out coz he can occupy her better than i can
coz then she sleeps later in the morning. But yeh, im pretty happy with our routine, ill be trying to stretch her out to 7.30pm in teh next few weeks tho, coz these 5.30am wake ups are not cool LOL
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