Bedtime

[Amy_J]

oh wow!!!! yes!!!!! 01.10.10!!!!! how cool!!!!! your lo is adorable!!!!

Oooo your baby is the same age as mine Amy! (1st October?)

Yours is too! So cool to have someone with the exact same age baby!

i know thats amazing!!! as 1st oct your due date?! my due date was the 18th but my FIL (lol) delivered him by c-sec early as he wasnt growing properly!!!!

 

[Yodabo]

Wow, really?! No Drake's due date was 21st but he was 3 weeks early! How mad.

 

[Amy_J]

Wow, really?! No Drake's due date was 21st but he was 3 weeks early! How mad.

o wow!!! do you mind me asking how much he weighed when he was born and now?! marley was 5lb 2oz at birth and on tuesday at clinic we was 13lbs 8oz (i think.. it was 13lbs something!!!) i dont know if hes big/small/watever lol!

 

[SmallPurpleCat]

Update on the bedtime 'routine'! Last night it went quite well - she fell asleep at 11.15pm (first time before midnight ever!) and didn't wake until 3.45am for her feed.

Just wondering, we're giving her a bottle of expressed milk as her 'last' feed which DH gives her.

Does anyone else do this? Our aim is to make sure she gets a nice big feed, last thing.

 

[ZMD]

Update on the bedtime 'routine'! Last night it went quite well - she fell asleep at 11.15pm (first time before midnight ever!) and didn't wake until 3.45am for her feed.

Just wondering, we're giving her a bottle of expressed milk as her 'last' feed which DH gives her.

Does anyone else do this? Our aim is to make sure she gets a nice big feed, last thing.

I give Tegan 5oz of expressed milk at bed time and its once i done this she started sleeping better xx

 

[Yodabo]

Wow, really?! No Drake's due date was 21st but he was 3 weeks early! How mad.

o wow!!! do you mind me asking how much he weighed when he was born and now?! marley was 5lb 2oz at birth and on tuesday at clinic we was 13lbs 8oz (i think.. it was 13lbs something!!!) i dont know if hes big/small/watever lol!

That's a good weight! Mine was 6lbs 1oz born and at 13+6 was 14lbs exactly. I haven't had him weighed since. He's a real porker, i love his rolls on his legs! lol

Sorry for hijacking SmallPurpleCat! Fab news on the sleep your lo got though, it's a good start!

 

[bobkat]

we didn't have much of a routine for the first few weeks as Freddie seemed to change his mind every day about when he was tired enough for bed and just went by Freddie's cues as to when he was tired and wanted to sleep, it wasn't until he was about 10 weeks that this seemed to happen at the same time. we tried the whole bath bed thing but the bath didn't help make him sleepy, in fact he stayed awake longer and really screamed cos it made him overtired. i bath him in the mornings now, it means we can have a play and not worry about having to get him to sleep afterwards. so all we do now is 6.30 sleepsuit on and last change. sit down, read a story or look at a picture book and snuggle, feed and then bed. all of this we do upstairs in low lighting. I think it also helped having a more firm routine in the day as well, not just at bedtime.

really hope Isla lets you get some good sleep in soon

 

[SmallPurpleCat]

Well, we've been doing the the new bedtime routine for 3 days now and it seems to be going well. We start at 9pm and last night Isla was asleep by 10pm - earliest ever!

But tonight - she fell asleep about 6pm and has just woken up 2 hours later so I don't think there's any point in going up at 9pm tonight.

How do you stick to a routine when they fall asleep early in the evening or do I
just do bath etc later tonight?

 

[isobel84]

if noa falls asleep i let him sleep for a little bit, like tonight he fell asleep on the sofa at 7. at 8 i woke him up, feed him n put him to bed at his bed time 8.30.
in the beginning before he got used to his bed time i put him down 8.30- tired oor not, few days n he got used to it xx

 

[xxbeckyxx]

I change the bedtime if Lizzie sleeps in the evening - but I do nap on the sofa while she's asleep. I can't bring myself to wake her up whenever she's asleep cos it's such a rare occurrence!!

 

[SmallPurpleCat]

I change the bedtime if Lizzie sleeps in the evening - but I do nap on the sofa while she's asleep. I can't bring myself to wake her up whenever she's asleep cos it's such a rare occurrence!!

What's Lizzie's bedtime now? If Isla is down for 10pm that's a massive achievement. I guess we'll bring it earlier gradually.

 

[xxbeckyxx]

Lizzie's bedtime is anything between 9 and 11, tbh I prefer it later because she then seems to sleep for longer at a time. She does wake up at 5 every morning though and won't go back to sleep!

 

[Lacey's Mummy]

Charley goes to bed at 7.30 no matter what. He normally has a nap about 5.30 and can sleep until bedtime but I still start his bedtime routine at 7 and bed 7.30 and he still goes straight to asleep.

 

[ZMD]

Tegan likes to nap at 6.30pm i then wake her up at 7.15 (evil mummy) then bath at 7.30 x

 

[SmallPurpleCat]

Ok, seems everyone sticks to the routine no matter what so I'll carry on regardless!

Thanks.

 

[Amy_J]

Wow, really?! No Drake's due date was 21st but he was 3 weeks early! How mad.

o wow!!! do you mind me asking how much he weighed when he was born and now?! marley was 5lb 2oz at birth and on tuesday at clinic we was 13lbs 8oz (i think.. it was 13lbs something!!!) i dont know if hes big/small/watever lol!

That's a good weight! Mine was 6lbs 1oz born and at 13+6 was 14lbs exactly. I haven't had him weighed since. He's a real porker, i love his rolls on his legs! lol

Sorry for hijacking SmallPurpleCat! Fab news on the sleep your lo got though, it's a good start!

im sorry to hijack too! my lo will be almost 14lbs too!! his chunky legs n rolls are adorable!! have to prise them open 2make sure i dry him properly!!!!! =))))