My dc doesnt wake until 9 am every morning... Piss off!

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Ok, so I am rather 'jel'. But I do tire of the incessant boasting , in RL esspecially, about peoples dc's and their epic sleep patterns... Yaaaawn!

Funny thing is, when asked what time their 1 year old dc goes to bed? 9pm!!! WTF? Where's your life?

Personally I much prefer dd in bed at 6 and up at 6, this way i actually hve an evening to myself :) (if she does go to bed at 7 she rises even earlier!) I don't go round boasting about how my dd is in bed at 6pm though, I just wouldn't...

It appears many love to boast about this topic in particular, which is non- sensical to me, as their dc is goin to bed ridiculously late IMO.

Sorry for the rant, but I do tire of this.

What happens when the clocks change? Do they adapt?

Ds3 was going at 6- about 7 until the clocks changed, now its 8-7

Ds4 very rarely goes to bed until 8.30, except yesterday when I came down stairs and found him asleep on the rug at 5. Put him to bed and he was up at 4 this morning. This is the longest he has slept. Usually its about 8.30- about 5

Their comeuppance will arrive. I had a work colleague like this. Put their 18 month old down to sleep at Christmas year before last at 8.30pm, they had to wake him up at 10am next morning.

She's now got 3 month old twins. No word as yet if they've inherited their brother's sleeping gene so I guess they haven't.

I've done both early bedtimes and later ones with my 3 over the years and found that in general they slept more soundly and woke less with a later bedtime. Toddler DD tends to settle between 8&9 and sleeps through until around 7. When I struggled for months getting DS down for 7 he would fight it, wake up etc and I wish I hadn't bothered! 12 years on he gets into bed at 8.30 ish and slobs around until 10. 8 year old DD settles at around 9.30 and again sleeps soundly until 7/7.30.
After years of broken sleep this way suits us down to the ground

My baby would sleep til about 7.30 I think if she weren't disturbed by her bloody earlybird 9yr old brother getting up at 5.30 and flushing the loo etc!

She goes to bed at 7, the older boys go about 8 but even if they're up til all hours they're up with the sun virtually.

I'm jealous of anyone whose children sleep for 12 hours straight no matter what time they go to bed. Mine is usuall up by 6a.m. at the very latest no matter how late he goes to bed

*usually

Their comeuppance will arrive

wow, what a horrible thing to say about anyone who happens to be chuffed with their DCs' sleeping habits. Are you saying you'd actually be pleased if your colleague's DC were rendering her shattered with sleep deprivation? What a charmer you sound .

Completely anecdotal but so far I've noticed that the majority of toddlers I know have roughly the same amount of sleep in a 24 hour period, it's just that some have it all at night and others share it between naps and night time. I used to be really jealous when friends said they were still getting 2, 2.5 hour naps out of their toddler every afternoon as anything over an hour and a half is considered "epic" in our house. But then it turned out that their toddlers were getting up at 6, 6.30,

So actually most of the kids were getting 12-13 hours of sleep a day, it's just that some did 10 hours at night and 3 at a nap, whereas DD does nearly 12 at night but only an hour for a nap. I'm quite happy with that at the moment - though the odd long nap would be blissful...

Of course, if you were prone to 'reading between the lines' every time someone said something about their child's development or behaviour, then you could construe that you posting on here about your dc sleeping for a 12 hour block is boasting.....

Horses for courses innit.
We just got rid of bedtimes. Much easier

Afraid it ain't the case - i don't boast. Far too British for that luv!

cat really???

Yep, really. DCs are 15, 11, 6 and 3. They all pretty much self regulate

So, out of interest, what time does the 3yo generally regulate their bedtime? I couldn't cope with the free for all but I am a tad neurotic about having order and routine ha

Whenever he is tired. Bit like the rest of us
And no, that doesn't mean he's up til 3am!

No strict bedtimes in this house either, cat. I find that dd is actually very good at ensuring she gets enough rest.

Mine slept for 8 hours last night, got up for a quick bottle and slept for another 5. Didn't know what to do with all that sleep. :)

Usually she only sleeps 3-4 hours at a time, so I feel I am allow to have this once in a life time brag.

DD1 regularly slept 7pm-10am until recently (now 5yo). She'd still sleep until 9 if we let her. We got a bit smug.

Then we had DD2.

We dont have strict bedtimes eithermthey will go to sleep when they are tired,if you let them,sometimes it means they go at 6,sometimes it means 10,it depends what we have been doing.

I think no bedtime routine could work, but my dd would never adapt. So for me it a no - go. Dd is one years old! Maybe when dc are older, but I think a fairly regularly routine for a baby/ toddler is a good thing as they do not always just go to sleep when they feel tired. Dd fights naps etc so bedtime is a process of winding down so she slowly registers its sleep time soon. She goes off wonderfully and very quickly everynight at 6. Last night I tried to make it later and she woke at 445am!!!
I do keep trying 7/7 but the early rising when I do out her down later is ridiculous. I can easily cope with 6, but 5!? No!