I have same kind of issues as everyone. Pick up from daycare at 3:30, and she usually nurses and gets in her third nap at that point. We have a little floor time, eat dinner (her, not me) between 6 and 6:30 and off to bed around 7. Lately, I've been thinking we need to move everything up half an hour--she is dead tired at 7.
Also? Admiring all these bedtime routines. Ours consists of rinsing the food off her in the kitchen sink, changing her out of cloth diaper into disposable and wrestling her into some cleanish pajamas, quick nurse and pass the eff out.
At some point, I will have to figure out this bath and reading thing I hear about...
DH works nights and the teenager lets me starve him (the other option is that he fix himself something to eat). About three nights during the week I manage to get dinner on the table. This will not be one of those nights, since I spent my cooking time making purees. I do a mix of BLW and purees--she gets to mess around with food while I prep her dinner and again when I'm pretty sure she's done eating for real. But if I were going to let her feed herself, I'd need an extra hour and a firehose. On the weekends she gets to eat more on her own. Because how the hell else will I fill up the day?
Post by seamonster on Sept 14, 2015 22:33:24 GMT -5
Bedtime routine :
*Dinner nurse *Play or bath (bath 2-3 times a week) *New diaper and possibly clothes (if he's in a romper or onsie already no change) *Lotion on legs and then into sleeping bag *read a couple books * Vitamin D and teeth brushing * Songs while nursing * in bed asleep
If he's awake 45 minutes later put him on a shoulder and burp. Goes back to sleep great otherwise I nurse again. DH can rock him back to sleep if I'm out
Post by jensoprano82 on Sept 15, 2015 1:20:47 GMT -5
Night owl of the thread I think. DS used to go to bed at 10pm and wake up between 8:30 or 9:00 before our move, and it was glorious being able to sleep till 7:45, get ready, and get in to work at 9:00, and weekends we all "slept in". Now with the move and renovations and construction starting at 8:00 every morning he's shifted to more like 9:00pm to around 7:00 or 7:30 am. If we could get into a 9pm to 7:30am groove every day, I would love it.
DH teaches an hour away until 6:30 three days a week so if I let his bedtime creep much earlier he won't get any face time with DS that day.
Post by psychobutthead on Sept 15, 2015 2:14:43 GMT -5
I need to be more consistent with trying to set a routine for DS. Feel like such a failure. I just let him sleep when he wants then I try to catch a few at the same time. We also don't have an over all routine either for night or day. I'm failing at parenting.
Post by toadandbuggie on Sept 15, 2015 5:44:34 GMT -5
lilyelayne, DS gets a bath 90% of the time but I also skip it if we are out or if I just don't feel like it. Example: this past Sunday night. I was just like... nope. And he didn't get one Saturday either because we were at my parents for bedtime. It's definitely not necessary, but I like to keep doing it because I want that "A,B, and then sleepytime" click in his head.
lilyelayne, DS gets a bath 90% of the time but I also skip it if we are out or if I just don't feel like it. Example: this past Sunday night. I was just like... nope. And he didn't get one Saturday either because we were at my parents for bedtime. It's definitely not necessary, but I like to keep doing it because I want that "A,B, and then sleepytime" click in his head.
Same thing here. And like @holachica does, sometimes it's just a little wipe down in his baby tub.
We start both girls' bed times around 8. I take Anna, H wrangles Norah in. We don't do bath every night bc depending on when I work (PT, non set schedule) I'll do baths during the morning/day. Some days they get tired earlier or later and we just go with it. It's also important to note that we don't take the girls to daycare so they usually wake up 7am-8am.
Re dinner: we try to eat around 5pm (sometimes closer to 6 when DH stays later at work or hits traffic). I give Anna a solid around when we eat.
Post by mands1125 on Sept 15, 2015 14:36:13 GMT -5
DD usually arrives home from daycare between 5:30 and 6. She gets a bottle then. We will play a little bit, eat dinner around 6:30, maybe a little bit of playing again, then she goes upstairs for bedtime. I try to get her asleep by 7:30.
I need to be more consistent with trying to set a routine for DS. Feel like such a failure. I just let him sleep when he wants then I try to catch a few at the same time. We also don't have an over all routine either for night or day. I'm failing at parenting.
You're not failing! V doesn't have any sort of daytime routine at all, half the time I couldn't tell you what time he last napped or ate. I just try to follow his cues when I can catch them. Parenting is hard enough without beating yourself up over small things. I feel like things are changing for him so much these days that routines will come easier later anyway.
johanna, I'm really lucky in that E is a pretty good sleeper (especially since sleep training). At this point in time she goes down around 7 (though sometimes not asleep until 7:30ish) and tends to wake up for the day between 7-7:30. She does usually wake up earlier in the morning (around 5:30-6 the past couple days) and we bring her into bed with us where she sleeps a little longer. She still tends to take 3 naps/day, but at least 2 of the 3 are only about 1/2 hr...usually if we work really hard we get at least one decent nap a day. I'm also spoiled in that DH is the chef of our family - he makes dinner while I do feeding/bedtime routine most nights. I especially appreciate this on the days that I work because it means I get that extra time with the baby before bed (and I get fed as well!)
Post by kaydee0402 on Sept 16, 2015 10:34:16 GMT -5
We do a late bedtime.
DH picks up Little Man from daycare around 4/4:30. I nurse when I get home at 6. I usually start dinner after nursing or start reheating if I had my act together and made it the night before We take a walk while dinner cooks We eat between 7 and 7:30. Little Man gets a serving of solids. Bath time between 7:30-8. We usually read or play before he goes to sleep at 8:30. He will not go to bed before 8:30 unless he is ridiculously tired.
Tonight I'm going to yoga, so the schedule will be a little off but not too bad since we're having leftovers.
Post by dmorgendorffer on Sept 16, 2015 11:45:17 GMT -5
cougarette we have a similar schedule too. DH and DD get home around 4:30 or 5. If I'm wfh that day I'll nurse her otherwise DH gives her a bottle. I get home around 5:30 or 6. I try t give DD some kind of puree, usually while DH makes dinner. DH and I eat, we have a little bit of play time and then around 7:30 we start the bedtime routine. Maybe 7:15 if she is getting cranky. DH gives her a bath every other night, then I get her in her PJs, read a book, nurse to sleep, usually she is out between 8-8:30.
My biggest struggle with the routine is also introducing new foods / getting solids into her. Some nights it is just too close to her bed time.
Post by MapleMomma on Sept 16, 2015 14:07:44 GMT -5
J generally gets crabby after dinner, but if we put her down sooner than 8 or 830, she'll be back up in 30 minutes until 10pm. That's what happened last night. So dinner at 6pm. Quick bath if needed. Play time. Jammies and night time diaper. Then we rock and nurse to sleep.
I think something else that bothers me is I'd like to do blw, but there's no way he can eat what we're eating with our current schedule. By time dinner is ready around 7-7:30 he's either napping or whining. And now that I'm considering having him in bed for the night at that time, we really couldn't do it. Bleh.
I usually save some of the previous nights dinner for B and she sits in her high chair and eats it while I prep the current nights dinner. This way she is occupied while I cook, and I'm not stressing if dinner isn't ready when she needs to eat.
seamonster Vitamin D and teeth brushing? Damn. I need to be doing this.
He loves the vitamin D drops. His toothbrush is just a little silicone finger toothbrush since he tries to chew on the regular baby toothbrush kind. No toothpaste, just water.
I truly feel like you just kinda figure out your own groove. Do what works for you and make changes if anyone is unhappy. Wait until number two comes along, FTMs. What a trip!
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