When do you put your kids to bed?

[megalicious]

Since she was about 9 months (currently 2.5):

Bath 6:45-7:00
Snack/books 7:00-7:15
Pajamas & Brush teeth 7:15-7:30
IN BED 7:30 (awake, playing with her animals)
Asleep anywhere from 8:00-8:30

[hopecounts]

DD is 2.5 almost 3 and her bedtime is 8pm
We do bath, story, then kiss and hug, turn on her night light and sound macchine then say good night.

until she was 6 ish months it was pretty fluid.
Around that point as we prepared to Ferber we set up what is our current bedtime routine, at that point she was going down around 7:30, once she dropped to one longer nap her bedtime creeped back a little.

Bedtime is sacred in our house so short of some major event kiddo is in bed lights out no later then 8:15. Which is nice because it gives DH and I some time in the evenings.

[VeryViolet]

Well typically we start snuggles around 8:30 and then he goes to his living room bed around nine. By 10:30 he is giving us begging eyes to go upstairs but then we give him a little snack and he settles down. Around 11 or so I have to coax him to the potty and then he gets in his bed that he so kindly lets DH and I sleep in. We all give kisses and say, "goodnight Tucker" and he is out until morning. He is a good doodle and sleeps well.


Oh you were talking about human kids. I have nothing sorry.

[vanillacourage]

Ds1 just turned 5, we start PJs, books, etc at 7:30 with lights out at 7:45-8.

DS2 is 14 months and is noticeably worn out after school, he gets a sippy of milk, snuggles, then laid down around 6:45.

ETA - they get up at ~6am, so we have to start early to get in the # of hours they need.

[snipsnsnails]

5 Month Old
Bath (if she has one-3-4/week)-6:30
Powder, Diaper, PJs-6:40
Nurse, Prayers, 1 Song-6:45 to 7:00

2.5yr Old
Bath-7:15
Brush Teeth, Powder, Diaper, PJs/Run Around and get the Sillies Out-7:45
4 books and Prayers-8:00-8:15

[Deleted]

As babies, bath, bottle(or boob), bed.

Now it's bed, goodnight, kiss. (bath still happens, just not a direct and necessary precursor to bed time)

Ain't nobody got time for songs and books!

[lolly]

My guys are 10 months.

Starts at 6:00pm - bath, then bottle/nurse, then a story. Then I hold each one, sing a lullaby, and put in bed with their stuffed monkey that plays music. They're usually in the crib by 6:45, asleep by 7 if I'm lucky. We still have tears about going to bed some nights.

[Deleted]

8:00- Brush/floss teeth, wash hands/feet/face on nights she doesn't bath. If she does bath, we start around 7:50.
8:15- she gets 2 books
8:30- lights out, but she falls asleep anywhere from 8:45-9:30.

Theo doesn't have much of a routine right now. Just diaper, swaddle, nurse for however long, sleep. Lol. He's usually down for the night by 9 and up to eat at midnight. We'll start a real routine when he's around 6 weeks. 

[hopecounts]

Jun 3, 2013 19:39:00 GMT -5 @licia said:

Oh wow. My baby is a night owl right now!

Its normal at her age for them to go down later.
No worries, she'll move it up as she goes to 2 naps/gets older and takes longer naps

[Deleted]

My almost-15 month old:

Bath every night starting between 6:15-6:30.
Run around upstairs in his diaper and get energy out starting between 6:30-6:45.
Pajamas, bottle, and bed no later than 7.

We wake him between 6:45 and 7am for daycare and he sleeps 12 hours straight through. When I'm home with him after this baby comes we will probably push bedtime back a little so he sleeps in longer. Not too late though. I'd rather get up early than lose my alone time with DH at night.

[daisybuchannan]

8 1/2 months old over here. 

Our routine starts at around 6 with dinner. After dinner it's upstairs for a bath, lotion, and pj's. Depending on what time it is/how tired he is we might go back downstairs to play for a little bit. He nurses for about 10 minutes, and then my H takes him to burp and put down. 

He's down between 6:45-7.

[speckledfrog]

7:30

[sake]

G eats "dinner" around 6:30, plays for a while, then falls asleep down stairs around 7:30. I shower around 9:30, and then if he gets a bath that night (we do every other night baths) I wake him up after I shower and we give him a bath. His bath/lotion/jammies routine takes around 15 min, so he is done by 10:15.Then he gets a bedtime bottle and goes to bed upstairs around 10:30-10:45. If he doesn't get a bath, then he eats closer to 10, and goes to bed after that. We usually read 2 short books a couple times over before he gets his bottle, unless he is fussy bc he's hungry, then we skip the books that night. We read a lot of books for about 30-45 minutes as soon as I get home every night from work, so I know he has had his reading time already, so I don't stress about it.

I think by the end of summer break we are going to try to move him to sleeping upstairs around 8, and see if he will sleep all the way through till morning. But I really don't mind him staying up with us, or sleeping downstairs for his evening nap, so as long as it works, and we're all happy, it's good for us!

[wildfloweragain]

Our baby/toddler routines have evolved on what exactly we do (more baths in the summer, less in winter, was songs, then books, lately 3 books and 2 songs...)

I think around 1 yr old each kid went to bed around 5:30/5:45. That was definitely the case last yr when DC#3 was 2 yrs old. She was extremely fussy if it was after 6.

Just this year it got later and later and now she goes to bed with the other kids, which is 7 unless something is going on and it is closer to 7:30.

Actual infant - When they first slept through the night it was something like 11-5, nurse, sleep until 7. Then they started going to bed closer to 8, then closer to 7, 6ish. They all woke up at 5am until probably 8 months.

[meganew]

Well, before the weather got nice- dinner around 6, bath at 7:15, brush teeth, books and water, then butt pats to sleep by 8. He's 21 months.

Now that its nice and all the neighbor kids are out playing, there are times when we aren't inside until well after 7, so he doesn't get down until closer to 9. This backfires though on nights like tonight when it's raining out and we try to get him down at his usual time. He's currently in his crib singing "We will rock you" over and over and over...

[cereal K]

Three in August.

Dinner at 6:00 she usually eats until 6:30-6:45. Runs around for a bit. Bedtime starts at 7. Bath every other night.

Into Jammie's. Hugs from dad. Two books. Down to bed. Se usually lays in her crib talking to her toys for about 30-45 minutes, but she's happy, so we let her unwind.

[eddy]

Leo-1 year
No real routine. Change clothes, rock with bottle around 7 pm. He sleeps until 6 am

Jack-5yr
Teeth, potty, book by 8 pm. Sleeps until 6 am.

[redheadk]

10.5 months

8:00 bath

8:15 boob

8:35 lullaby and snuggle

8:40 bed

She typically wakes once per night to eat and is up for the day between 7:15 and 8.

[balletofangels]

Starts around 7:30. Dad does bedtime so there's room for manipulation. When she was a newborn we started him doing bedtime because he'd give her a bottle and I'd pump to get her ready for when I went back to work.

Now, sometimes bath, then jammies, about 6,000 stories -- but recently they've been watching youtube videos of some of her favorite stories and then the Octonaut's theme song (?!?!). Then he stands her on the changing table and she turns off the light and she gets hugs and kisses. They play this game every night and have since she was like 9 months "Is your bed there? There?.." etc and he points everywhere except her crib. Then she goes in and goes to sleep.

[fuckyourcouch]

whenever it's time to get out the cotton candy machine and cocaine

[sake]

tators
What is YOUR bedtime/routine?

[VeryViolet]

Jun 3, 2013 21:01:19 GMT -5 Que? said:

Jun 3, 2013 19:33:23 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

Well typically we start snuggles around 8:30 and then he goes to his living room bed around nine. By 10:30 he is giving us begging eyes to go upstairs but then we give him a little snack and he settles down. Around 11 or so I have to coax him to the potty and then he gets in his bed that he so kindly lets DH and I sleep in. We all give kisses and say, "goodnight Tucker" and he is out until morning. He is a good doodle and sleeps well.


Oh you were talking about human kids. I have nothing sorry.

I'm an idiot. I was skimming while eating dinner and I was like 'why does their kid have a bed in the living room? If he's begging, why don't they put him to bed?' Lol.

Lol! I was just being stupid. I read all of the kid threads and never have anything useful to add.

[daisyheadmaizie]

7pm - jammies, teeth brushed, face washed, go potty(DD)/change diaper (DS), vitamins, etc
7:15ish - DD reads to us. Sometimes I'll read a story too.
7:30 - DD gets into bed for quiet reading time while I nurse DS. When he is finished nursing I burp him and lay him down awake. It is usually 7:45-8pm. Hugs and kisses to both kids, lullabies are started,and lights are turned out. They fall asleep anywhere from right away to 9pm.

DS still gets up once a night to nurse. Sometimes more if he is teething. They get up for the day around 7:30, but play in their room until 8.

DD is 5.5 and DS is 8.5 months.

[Jermys]

When H is out of town, I put the kids to bed, but he usually handles all of it. The routine is this:
Between 8:45 and 9:00, Edith gives me a kiss and hug, goes potty, gets her vitamins, brushes teeth, does mouthwash, gets in her jammies and gets into bed. Meanwhile, H is getting Freddie's diaper changed, jammies on, reading him a story, Freddie gives me a kiss and hug, and goes in his crib. Then, H reads Edith two stories and they sing two songs. Then lights out and bed.

[jacquie]

We didn't have a routine to speak of until recently.


Now, he's in bed between 8:30 and 9 o'clock (it was 8 o'clock, when he was in "school" three days a week). I put him in the tub around 7:45, let him play until he's sick of it, then he likes to have some snuggle time in his bath robe, then he's in bed for a short story.

Seriously, the first two years of his life it was terrible to get him in bed. I am all for establishing a routine, and sticking with it, at all costs now. We didn't know what in the hell we were doing the first two years, and were such softies, that we just went about things willy nilly.

[beautifulfields12]

We have had the same routine for my guy (4y/o) since he was 6 months. Dinner between 6-7PM, bath at 7:15, books at 7:30, and bedtime between 7:45-8PM. He loves the structure.

[angelaa73]

I toss them in the bath around 7:30, read stories, lights out 9ish?

[ginandjucie24]

We start bed time at 7:15,that includes bath time if its a bath night, or just a wipe down if not bath night, we play lullabies on the TV while we are changing him. The it's bottle time from 7:30-8:00 and he is asleep in his crib by 8:10.