Haver i left it too late for bedtime routine?? Ds 14 months old

[shellmc]

Hello there,

I havnt been on here for soo long as i have my hands full now with DS.

Im just after some advice and help on bedtime routines!!

Ds isnt too bad and does sleep pretty well, its just i wish he was settled better at nights as sometimes he will fight his sleep and this can go on for up to 3hrs!!!!
On a good night he does settle around 7.30-8pm which i prefer soo then me and hubby can share a little time 2getha.

I usually bath him every other night and try to do this around 6.30pm then ready for bed, he has a bottle ov milk at around 7-7.15 then as i sed earlier he does sometimes go over around 7.30-8pm.
Is there anything else i can do to make him realise it is bedtime, i tend to turn down the tv a bit, i will add iv never taken him up to bed to settle him he always falls asleep on mine or hubbys knee!!!
I know I know!! Have i left it too late and do you think that becoz he has always fallen asleep down stairs with us that it will be hard for him to settle in his own room??
Thanks for your time x

Not too late. Start tomorrow- go up stairs at 6.30 and make your mind up he is not coming down til morning. Make a big palaver of shutting curtains 'making it nice and dark' etc etc. Bath, Milk cuddled up on your bed or in his room and then down to sleep- see how it goes- you may be pleasantly surprised.- let us know

Thanx jjazz!!
Ill give it a go and will post back and let ya know!!

Not too late! Decide what you are aiming for, and take some time when you have energy and will power, and work towards it.

Make sure you try a really good sleep routine, so eating with plenty of time for the baths, snuggle in bed, story, soft light and sleep. I would also buy a small bottle of lavender oil, just to have available for the tenth time he's got up again because he can't sleep. A few drops on the pillow and a special kiss might work.

But you are going to have to keep going with it. Eventually though it will work, and bed times will be sorted.

Thanks very much mummytime!

I do want him to be more settled as at the minute he falls asleep down stairs and we dont take him to bed untill we go up, therfor we are disturbing him wen we do take him up to bed. It would be nice to have him settled into a better routine so he will feel beter and sleep better and me and hubby get a wee bit ov time together.
He isnt in his own room either yet as wev been getting our bathroom done and everything has been put in his room!! But wer nearly there with that soo he will be in his own room soon.

How long will it be till he can be in his own room? Could undo all your good work if you get something sorted out now and then have to move him again? Could the stuff go somewhere else temporarily?

Definitely not too late though. Find a time when you can really set your mind to it.

Next week or soo we will be sorted and we will beable to get him in his own room.
You think it might be best to wait.
Thanks again

its never to late.

my dd is now 20mnths.

until she was 14mnth, the routine was chaos, she slept when she wanted and where she wanted. (carseat/pram/floor/my bed/ once even layed over my head in my bed)

then at 14mnths we moved and i decorated her room, decided after all the effort i put in enough was enough, put her cot in there,

at 6pm- bath

6.30- get dried, story cuddles and milk.

7pm- we say good night to daddy and ds, and all her mobiles in her room, teddys etc. then in her cot, dummy and her 'fluffy'

the first night she cried for 10mins, i stood outside the door so i could peek through the gap she didnt get up so i waited and im glad i did, as shes never made a fuss since.

Now she sleeps 6.30pm-7-8am ish

naps 9.30-10-11ish

and another after lunch for an hour.

now she will sleep anywhere i go, in the pram, travel cot or a friends toddler bed, aslong as she has fluffy and dummy, we say goodnight to grandmas lampshade and curtain, just the same pattern is whats needed.

i never ever thought it would happen, but it did good luck!