How long is your bedtime routine? (For LO)

[blondemum]

We have the same schedule every night. It takes about 40 minutes from start to sleep.

Tub, teeth, lotion and lavender, pj's, sleep sack, two or three books (short board books) then BF til almost asleep, then rocking and cuddling in the glider, then putting down in the crib.

He's usually almost asleep by the time I put him in the crib, and he'll drift off within a minute or two. If he's not almost asleep when I put him down he'll just stand up and scream and then DH will have to go in and rock him for a minute.

[lowedown]

30 minutes or less. Bath, books, in the crib awake. He usually falls asleep within 5-10 minutes.

Naps are always a fight though.

[ciaomama]

We usually do bath around 5, solids either before or after bath depending on if DS is super sleepy. We put him in his jammies, brush teeth, read stories and do his nighttime bottle. He's usually in bed between 5:30 and 6:30 and the whole process is about 45 min is you count the bathtime.

We're trying to change the order of things so he has his bottle right after his bath.

[bepandnick]

mamosey E made it his bedtime. We watch for cues (he starts rubbing his eyes and rolling around on the floor with his blankie) and start our routine when he looks ready. Sometimes it's 7:30 and sometimes he's up until 9.

[suzyqq02]

mamosey, it was a combo. Because of my work schedule, the earliest we ever get home is 615, and we have a 45 min drive so LO often takes a snooze on the way, so it didn't make sense to rush into the night routine. We play for a bit and make dinner, eat around 7 (which takes up to 45 min since my kid wont let me feed her and takes after me as the slowest eater ever), books in the high chair or in the living room, then start the bath process. She settled there pretty naturally on her own once she dropped her 10pmish feeding, too, so we didn't mess with success. ;-) but in reality, I'm not sure we really could do much earlier, even if we wanted to.

[carissalynp]

Actual sleep time here is usually 8:30. For a while it wasn't til 10 pm, we just followed his cues. And bath time winds him up too, we do it right after he eats so he has time to calm down. It does tire him out too though, using that much energy that late.

[bepandnick]

Jan 18, 2015 9:19:09 GMT -5 mamosey said:

suzyqq02 same for us. I get home at 6. He usually takes a late nap and 9 times out of 10 we are waking him at 5. I'm curious what would happen if we let that late nap run its course and then push back bed time.

We're a late dinner family too. MH usually picks up E at DC around 5:45 and I get home at 6:15 at the earliest. E's last nap at DC is usually until 5:30 and when he had 3 naps, he almost always took a pre-bed nap.

[danaadell]

730 very consistently. We set it when he was about 3 months. We start around 7 and alternate book or bath. We are super consistent about it and it takes about 30 minutes and then he's out.

[dgs7585]

45 minutes here. Bath, lotion, jammies and a bottle. We start around 6:45 and in bed by 7:30.

[monkey1980]

Ours takes about 20 minutes. But it's really a no muss routine. Jammies, overnight diaper, bottle, nurse if she wants it, then in bed for the night. Most nights she's asleep between 7:30 and 8, depending on how well she napped. If she didn't take much of an afternoon nap, then we start the routine earlier.

[squirm]

We dont do anything fun like book reading, singing, bathing,etc, bc I have a party baby and she will want to stay up all night if I entertain her. Once she starts rubbing her eyes, she gets diaper change, jammies on, and nurse to sleep. It used to take HOURS but lately it's like 15-30 minutes. I changed her bed to a mattress on the floor so I side lie and nurse her to sleep and then just roll away when she is asleep.

[codypup]

Including dinner, bath (which alone can take 20 minutes...she's a water baby), PJs (which includes chasing a naked baby all over the room), then playtime, then rocking with a bottle until she falls asleep, and then transferring her to the crib?

1.5 hours.

[LBS2012]

DS goes to bed crazy early. We do PJs, nurse and lullaby starting at 5:40PM and he's asleep by 6:05PM. He puts me through my paces the rest of the day though so I'm thankful he's compliant with this one thing!