does anyones 12-24 month old go to bed at 9-9:30?

[nappyaddict]

if so are you happy with that time or would you like it to be earlier?
is it because either you or dp work til lateish and wouldn't see much of them otherwise?
or is it just because they would get up too early otherwise?

i see you've had no replies as yet.... my 2dc's are 3.6y and 2.2y and they ahve always had 7pm bedtimes from around 12mths for ds and from 3mths with dd..... it works well for us, when ds went to bed at around 9-10pm it was a nightmare, we never got any time together just DH and I and we missed it!!

Once we got a bedtime routine in we brought the bedtime earlier by 1/2 an hour each week and eventually got to 7pm and they will sleep till at least 7am now!! some days it can be 10am before they get up!!!

Hi nappyaddict, my dd is 25 months and we are stuggling to get her to bed any earlier than 9 these nights. Up to a few months ago she was always in bed by 7.30, asleep by 8 but now I am pregnant again I started lying down for a nap with her during the day and she got in the habit of taking longer naps which means she isn't tired at 8pm. It does work for us though because dh gets home around 6.45 and by the time he has soemthing to eat it is after 7 then he and dd play for an hour and she is usually so wound up and excited we need some time to calm her down again before bed.

My DS at 11 months goes to bed at 9 - 9.30. I wouldn't really see him in the evening otherwise, so it doesn't really bother me except if he's having a difficult night and is hard to settle (ie later than 9.30 or 10), which I do struggle with. He still gets up at 6!

DCS that bit older now, but i would never keep them up that late as a matter of course, they would be bad tempered and horrible!

7.30 - 8 tops. especially as it leaves less time for me to chill iwth a glass of something!

My ds goes to bed about 9-9.30 he is 2.5.
He gets up at about 6.30-7 if he goes to bed earlier he gets up at around 5.

bogie has he always gone to bed at that time or did he used to go earlier?

DD is 21 months.

She goes to bed between 9 & 9:30 & sleeps until 9am

Mostly it is deliberate although she did seem to settle herself into this wroutine- DH is home at 6:30 - 7:30 & likes to have time to play before bed & we can eat together too.

He used to go later he never had a good routine because we moved house sooo much when he was small.
We are quite happy with 9-9.30 as for the first time in 2 years he has started sleeping all the way through.

My first one used to, and we were happy with it - meant that she slept till 8.30, which was perfect.

My second has mostly been knackered by 7.30, which scuppers late evening summer strolls, and worst of all, lie-ins

When DS was little he was up that late but I really missed having the evening with DH so by 3mths he was going down at 7pm. I was prepared to put up with the extra wake just to get my evenings back. They slowly stopped and he sleeps until about 7am. We've put DD down at 7pm since the she was 48hours old. She sleeps until about 8am.

I believe that bringing DS's bedtime forward helped save me from PND which I was tottering on the edge of.

elibean - did your dd1 go that late when she was younger too say 6-12 months ish? has she stuck to that time now she's got older (i assume she's at nursery/playgroup?) or have you had to bring it forward?

Ds (23 months)goes to bed at 9ish. I do find it annoying but obviously not annoying enough to give up on his long afternoon nap or wake him up earlier in the morning. We all sleep in till about 8. I guess it's a trade-off.

unless my ds is shattered he goes to bed between 830 and 0900 and is up between 630 adn 715. he is 15 months and as far as i can remember it has always been this way.

i guess that's so he doesn't get up any earlier than rather than so he can spend time with you in the evenings

DS is 15 months. He goes down at 6.30 to 7pm and is generally up between 5.30 and 6am. I don't think it is reasonable to keep him up late just because we are at work. Its not his fault.

Keeping him up later wouldn't make him sleep any later, and we get up at 6am anyway so makes no odds. And we like our evenings.

Nappy, we used to put ds (now six) to bed at 9- 9.30 when he was 12-24 months. He had been a bad sleeper from day 1, and found it difficult to fall asleep. It took us a lot of patience (and possibly some mistakes) to help him to get more sleep. He's been going to bed at 8 from nearly 2 yrs now, and it works well for us.

yes dd2 goes between 9 and 10 and occaisionally 11. she now sleeps through about half the week till about 8 ish although was 10.10 am the other day

But she was an awful sleeper till she was 7 months have posted on here about it before.

Eventually will get her down by 8pm but i will wait till the summer is over before I attempt that!

if i put dd2 to sleep earlier she would wake earlier.

My 24m old is put to bed shattered and falling asleep about 7.30 to 8pm. He doesn't sleep at all during the day. Unfortunately his 3.5yo brother goes up later, wakes him up, then the two of them bounce on the beds and run about upstairs till about 9.30.
Some nights we do the Supernanny bit and keep putting them back in bed, but tonight we are doing a good impression of a 'before' family from the supernanny series

I have bought the No Cry Sleep Solution today, so we will see. I only got to page 50 on the train on the way home, which was all the sympathy part, and not the what you have to do part, so I am still in the dark.

Sorry, nappyaddict, didnt' see your post or ? till now.

Yes, its all changed with playgroup - she goes to bed about 8-8.30 now, and wakes up around 7 - 7.30. But she's rarely asleep before 9pm (singing in her bed) and has never slept more than 10.5 or 11 hours per night, nap or no nap!

Hi, btw, been awhile

my ds did go to bed at this time once as dp worked long hours but i wanted it to be earlier as was still waking at same time as if he'd have gone to bed early

dp agreed that we would put him down earlier so i get time to myself as ds wakes in night also he is 3 now so i was non stop

he now goes down 6-7 still wakes in night but he is SN and has seperation anxiety but sleeps till same time as if he'd gone later so made more sense to put to bed earlier

we also wanted earlier bed for when he started nursery