to rhink if your baby/ child goes to bed at 6 or 7pm

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that it seems only natural they wake between 4 and 6 am?
I have read of people being sad or frustrated that baby wakes this early to start the day and i am thinking huh??
i have always put baby to bed when I go then I can expect a few hours broken or not then as the child gets older make bedtime earlier.

Depends really my 4 yr old goes to bed at 6-63 and my 6 yr old goes at 6.30-7 and they both wake about 7-8.

I have a friend whose dc goes to bed at half past four and doesnt get up until after 10!(some times later). She says she sometimes hears dc wake up but doesnt go in the room.Alot of the mums at playgroup think it is very weird!.

i have known loads and loads of young children who sleep 7pm - 7.30am, and have an hour or 2 in the day...

if v tired these same children could be put down at 6.30, and still sleep til 7.30

Probably yes, but I tried putting my ds to bed later for 3 weeks in a row once when he was 13 months old I know it was 3 weeks because I ticked off the days and still have the notes (I was a bit mad from lack of sleep in those days!) and he still woke up between 4.30am and 5.30am. He would then go back to sleep around 1-2 hours later for a nap but nothing you did in those two hours made him go back to sleep. He was also incredibly bad tempered through the whole thing as he still woke at night as well.

I would then half heartedly try it for a week or so every so often after that until he was about 2 years old.

In the end I accepted that I had my free time in the evening and made the best of it. He fell asleep around 6/6.30pm and woke at around 4.30/5.30am.

His first 4-5 hours (6pm-12pm) were almost always his best sleep and that is how he was from around 8 weeks old until around 2.5 years old. Gradually (very gradually) his wake up time moved to around 7am and his bedtime to around 7.30pm but he is 6 years old now!

So YANBU but sometimes the work required to get them to change their sleep pattern does not seem worth the work involved.

Boy goes to bed at 6.30pm and starts the day at 7am. Suits us just fine.

my ds is 3 and goes down between half six and seven, and then wakes up between six and seven which suits us fine!

DD goes to sleep at 8 and gets up at 7. She is nearly 10 and has had this 'regime' since she was 6.
If she doesn't have enough sleep she is a horror.

Well, I've always been a bit at a 6.30/7 bedtime. But that's because I am not English, and I come from a country where 7 pm is the time for an "early" dinner.

Going to bed at 6.30 doesn't sound natural to me, but it is a totally cultural issued.

My dc used to go to bed at 8 and wake up at 8 when they were younger, which suited us all fine.

not in my experience, actually. if my two go to bed later they are up earlier and absolute hell on wheels to deal with the next afternoon.

lol YANBU I agree. When dd was little I didn't get home til just after 6pm so dd wouldn't go down til later and then she would sleep right through to a decent time in the morning. I had a friend who thought I was a bad mum for getting in so late and putting dd down so late, she was a sahm and put her dc's down at 7pm and could never understand why they woke from 4am onwards

I would rather cope with early mornings and have a couple of hours peace in the evenings.

issue, not ssued

I will probably get mangled for this but DD (2ish) goes to bed at 7pm and gets up at 8am. Sometimes she has a nap in the day too.

I'm not entirely sure how much time she spends sleeping, but she doesn't yell to get up.

my son 23 months sleeps 6pm-6am and my daughter 7pm-7am. 10-12 hours a night is fairly normal. YABU.

Oh no, I don't like early mornings. But I agree that toddlers usually don't sleep late in the morning even if they go to bed late (say 9-10 o'clock)

Mine sleeps 12 solid hours, 7.30 - 7.30. I can tweak it so he sleeps later by putting him down later but it takes a couple of days to take root. However if youir child regularly sleeps 7-5 then there is some tweaking needed, you're right.

dd1 goes to bed at 7pm, waking 7am
if we put her to bed at 9pm, she wakes at 7am, and is grumpy with it.

Boy going to bed at 6.30pm is my saving grace. He is better in the mornings and so am I so it makes much more sense for us to be up and about when we are at our brightest and fittest, and he is knackered by 6.30pm so he goes straight to sleep generally giving us the evening to be adults which is best for DH.

DD gets up at 7am, no matter what time she goes to bed. Always has. She is like a little alarm clock.

Pink, I would say that was neglectful.

Kreecher, DS2 is just 10 and sounds similar to your daughter. He is in bed at 8/8.30 every night and has to be practically dragged out of bed every morning. If I don't wake him (weekends/holidays) he sleeps in until at least 11am. We always call him 'the incredible sleeping boy', he's always loved his sleep and he needs it.

My DC have always gone to bed early, as older babies they slept through the night from 7 until at least 7, sometimes 9. My 7 year old still goes to bed at 7pm every night. He does wake about 6, but plays happily in his room until we get up. If I put him to bed later, he is extremely grumpy until bed time and then still wakes at 6am and is grumpy all the next day too.

Depends, ds1 (4) has to be in bed by 7pm (unless it's a special occasion) or he's still sleeping at 8am and has to be woken up in a rush for breakfast and school. He HATES not waking naturally and sleeps all night.

Ds2 (14 months) has an afternoon sleep and so won't sleep before 7pm, even if you put him down before. He'll sleep until 4am, have a growl and go back to sleep until 7am.

Nothing we've done/not done, it's just how my children are and it suits us OK.