Milk and bedtime routine

[Orissiah]

This may be a really silly question but ever since my DD was a month old we have stuck to the same bedtime routine: bath, bottle, books, bed. It's worked so well we still do it at 21 months old.

But now she is getting older and eating more she is also drinking lots more water throughout the day. The result is that she sometimes wees so much at night that even her night time nappies can't contain her wee and her cot and bedclothes are wet in the morning (she unbelievably sleeps through it all!).

So I want to move her milk bottle to before her bath so I can change her nappy just before bedtime (as the liquid would have gone through her by then).

So new routine would be bottle, bath, books, bed.

How many of you do NOT give your toddler milk just before bed?

DD (2.3) doen't have milk before bed. We eat as a family a 6:30 and then it's bedtime.

She did used to though, but she stared reusing dinner so she'd have room for her milk...

My 11 month old has his milk between 6pm-6.30pm then it's bath, Teeth, PJ's, Story, Bed.

We started doing it this way as soon as his teeth came through so we weren't struggling to brush his teeth after he drunk his milk when he wanted to be in bed.

Very similar to you here, OP. DS (22m) routine since about 12 weeks (when I stopped him nursing to sleep and started putting him down drowsy but awake) has been:

Milk (since weaning from bf it is about 3/4 cup of whole milk)
Brush teeth (had four teeth at 12 weeks!)
Bath
Books
Bed

We won't be looking at potty training for a while yet but DS does often choose to use the potty we have sitting in the bathroom when he is stripped for his bath - this has made a tremendous improvement in the sopping wet nightime. HTH.

DS2 is 18 months and no longer has a bottle at all. When I weaned him off his bottle (approx 2 mths agp) I would offer him a little cup of milk before he went up into his cot but after the first day or two he refused and went up to bed, happily, without any.

ago, sorry

Ooo will watch with interest as my ds is 2.7 and still has milk before bedtime whilst we read or sing with him . He's toilet trained and fully dry in the day but has a nappy which leaks every where at night. I know I really should look at moving th milk but it's been part of his routine since he was born and I am a coward!

My 21 month old DS has a cup of milk whilst watching Waybuloo (most of the time, sometimes we forget - he doesn't seem to mind!). Then it's upstairs for bath or wash, teeth, pjs, stories and bed.

As someone else on here said, it's a good idea to do the milk earlier anyway, so that you can brush teeth after that last drink.

I worried that he'd miss the routine of milk immediately before bed (used to BF then put straight down) but he seemed to have no problem with it once we started doing stories then bed.

Good luck!

Or you could just buy bigger nappies!