Bedtime?

[@llli*rebeccaeee]

I know this may belong in the sleep issues forum, but I thought the replies mught be different for working mamas. What time does your lo go to sleep? I get home from work about 6 PM (luckily, dh picks up ds at 4:15 so they have some time together before I get home) and, for the first 18 months or so, bedtime was reliably 8 o clock. Lately, ds (at 21 mos) is not interested in bedtime or bathtime or downtime and, quite frankly, neither am I. By the time I get home, cook and feed dinner (as close to 6 as possible) and play and give breathing treatments (for asthma), who wants to go to bed? He's been fighting sleep until between 830 and 9. then he wakes up (as always) about an hour after he is put down and wants to snuggle. I usually cave in and co-sleep with him then.

We reliably wake up (even on weekends) around 6 and he naps from 12-2 at daycare every day (and less so on weekends). My mom said we didn't stay up "that late" until we were 5 or 6 at least! "Then again," she said, "I stayed at home with you." SIGGGGGGH. But that got me thinking of other mamas here with work schedules.....what time does your lo go to bed?

[@llli*bellasmom]

Between 7 and 8 for DD (9 mo). She wakes between 6 and 7 and usually takes 2 naps during the day (total of 2-3 hours if I'm lucky). I've read that a general rule for babies DD's age is ~14 hrs of sleep a day - we're a little short of that, but I'd think for your DH that would be less. Especially if he's really getting those 2 hour naps, he may be right on... And, if he's happy...

I have to admit that I'm looking forward to days when DD will be ok staying up a bit later - I get home around 6 like you and all we have time for is getting ready for bed!

[@llli*laydeedancer]

My DD goes to bed between 7:30 and 8:30 typically, and has been since she was just a few weeks old. Although I have to say, I relish it sometimes because I'm ready for bed then too!

[@llli*csan]

Mine's 18 months he goes to bed between 7-8. He gets up at about 6:30. Although he wakes up at least 4-5 times for some middle of the night milk. He usually has one nap in the day for about 1-1.5 hrs.

Although we've recently had to do a few of those breathing treatments as he has had some wheezing with colds... (not sure yet if he has asthma) anyway I remember reading that a side effect of that medicine is that it can keep him from falling asleep easily. Last night we did the treatment at 5:30 and he was wired until about 9. Check on that with whatever is in your treatment and then tell your mom that tidbit. ;o)

[@llli*jewelsf]

we are seriously night people here. 2 or 3 nights per week i do not get home until 9:30 or 10 pm, so bedtime around here is usually around 10 or 11. i know that is completely abnormal but it works! dh works 3 16 hour shifts each week, so he gets home between 11 and midnight when he works. i think that whatever works is fine.

j