How old was your baby when you stuck with a set bed time?
March 7, 2009 by Discount Luxury Bedding
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Can you answer misstifa’s question about Bedding?:
When did you stop letting baby decide when to go to sleep? When did you start enforcing a bedtime?
When did you stop letting baby decide when to go to sleep? When did you start enforcing a bedtime?
And how did you do it?
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Bedding Feedback: Well, my daughter started falling asleep at about the same time each night when she was 3 months old. So it was then that I began a bedtime routine and put her to sleep at around the same time (anywhere from 7pm-8:30pm).
Now, she is getting sleepy closer to 7pm, so that is when I consistently put her to bed. She is 6 months old and that is her usual bedtime. Of course, there are days when she gets tired earlier and I put her to bed earlier. And, there are days when she isn’t too tired by 7pm, so I put her to bed later (no later than 7:30pm though).
Your child will naturally fall into a pattern, and you work around that.
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Bedding Feedback: I’ve never enforced a bed time with my son, as you cannot force someone to go to sleep(no matter the age).
With that said, at around 4 months we started laying him down when he was getting sleepy. This was at 9 PM. It would take him about 10 minutes to settle and to fall asleep completely. Now, at 9 months, his bedtime is at 8 PM(has been this way for a couple of months). Again, it only takes him about 10 minutes to fall asleep.
Go by your baby’s cues, do not try to force them into a routine based on what YOU think it needs to be.
Bedding Feedback: After a about 4 months, my daughter would usually get tired around the same time…within an hour or so. So I used that as the basis as starting a bed time. Each night it varied depending on how her naps were but I started with the routine first. Then she caught on that she goes to bed after the routine and it didn’t so much matter whether it was exactly 6:30 or 7:15. Now my daughter is 9 months and goes to bed between 7 & 7:30 depending on what time she woke up from her last nap. Sometimes she gets really tired and will go down about 6:30. Iwouldnt’ worry so much about enforcing a strict bedtime time but rather than watching the cues when your baby is tired. Does your baby struggle/fight sleep?
Bedding Feedback: Pretty much since birth. I just started moving it from about 22:30 when he was newborn, slowly to 20:30. Babies thrive off of routine, and our son loves having his nightly bath, and by the time he is PJ’ed and fed, he is knocked right out.
I started keeping him awake from 16:00 until 20:30, and the first few days were rough, since he was so tired, but I would carry him, talk, and play with him to keep him distracted.
Bedding Feedback: I never set a bedtime, just around 7-8 at night, i turn the TV down and turn off some lights and try to get them settled, it worked for my oldest, she is never out of bed later than 9 and she goes on her own. My 2 month old just naturally goes to sleep around 8 and sleeps until 5
Bedding Feedback: You can’t really stick to a bed time. They sleep when they are tired. Around 4 months my son started to have a predictable sleep schedule so bed time was around the same time each night, 11pm. As he gets older he inches his bed time back to a more acceptable hour, 9pm now.
Bedding Feedback: Enforcing a bedtime? I can’t force him to go to sleep, and honestly can’t even force him to stay in his crib. If I turn it into a “you have to go to bed at this time every day” battle, I’m going to lose.
Bedtime in our house has been around 8pm since he was about 9 months old. Before then he would go to sleep between 7-9, depending on how his day had gone.
Bedding Feedback: my baby always got tired around 9pm every night, up until separation anxiety set in, then she wouldnt go to sleep without me! now, shes a little older, and is making her own schedule going to sleep around 8:30pm. it also depended on what we did during the day, how many naps she had, how long, etc. so, everydays different, and you cant really force a baby to sleep, but i wouldnt keep them up past around 10pm, at the absolute latest. my baby knows, once she gets a bath, its bedtime is within an hr or two, so usually she starts to get cranky. you can always put them in their bed so they know its bedtime, and they can play until their tired. sometimes, i hear my baby in there talking to herself… lol.
Bedding Feedback: I started setting up a regular, set sleep schedule, by about 6 months for my daughter.
For her it was easy because she was a routine oriented kid to begin with. She started into a natural pattern at that time and I just enforced it as a schedule basically. I woke her up at the same time every day. Knew she would stay up for 2 hours before getting sleepy again, so after 2 hours I’d put her down for her nap. Then get her up after an hour and a half because that’s typically as long as she would sleep. Then she’d be up for another 3 hours before getting sleepy again (she was a two nap a day kid) so after 3 hours I’d put her down for her nap. Then wake her up an hour and a half later and keep her up for another 3 hours and then bedtime. So basically, she developed a schedule and then I just continued to enforce it.
For my son, he was over two years old before I could get him on a set schedule. But he was an extremely difficult sleeper from the get go. For him it was a much more difficult and tedious process and the way I went about finally getting him on a schedule is probably too long and involved to type out on here.
Bedding Feedback: I did it at 5 years old when my daughter started school and needed to wake up by a certain time.
Before that, a schedule is completely unnecessary. If you work and have to take your kid to daycare, then a set bedtime would be necessary because they need enough rest.
However, you don’t necessarily have to force it. Simply waking your kid at whatever hour you need to in the morning will make him fall into his own bedtime schedule depending on how much sleep he needs.
Bedding Feedback: My parents had a bed time ever since i was born and could understand.My dad would read to me every night starting at 8-8:30.They stuck to that time till I was 11 and convinced them to make it later, now it is 9-10
Bedding Feedback: Well, my daughter started falling asleep at about the same time each night when she was 3 months old. So it was then that I began a bedtime routine and put her to sleep at around the same time (anywhere from 7pm-8:30pm).
Now, she is getting sleepy closer to 7pm, so that is when I consistently put her to bed. She is 6 months old and that is her usual bedtime. Of course, there are days when she gets tired earlier and I put her to bed earlier. And, there are days when she isn’t too tired by 7pm, so I put her to bed later (no later than 7:30pm though).
Your child will naturally fall into a pattern, and you work around that.