If you have an 11m/1yr old

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What is your daily routine? Really more interested in bedtime routine, but I'm sure the daytime routine affects this. Ds is I think ready to drop his afternoon nap but I wasn't expecting this for a while yet so it's thrown me a little.

DS2 is just 14mo.

At nursery in the week, he luxuriates in an hour sleep in the morning and 1.5 hours in the afternoon. He then has no interest in going to bed till around 8pm or 9pm and gets up at around 6am. (He wakes multiple times in the night to feed, bounce, crawl around, stand up and walk on my face etc...)

At the weekend, he hardly naps at all. He is too busy. He woke up at 6:40 this morning and had 45 minutes sleep at about 1:30pm. He is feeding now but not asleep yet.

I fully expect him to be on one sleep all week too in a few months.

DS1 was a complete non-sleeper. He had dropped to one day sleep at 10mo and dropped all day sleeps before he was two. (Still doesn't sleep through at nearly four but these days he does actually like going to bed when he is tired.)

Sorry, that wasn't really a routine.

The routine for DS2 at bedtime involves bath, breastfeed and then sleep in our bed. When he is bigger and doesn't need the breastfeed, we will do books instead.

Sometimes he has a feed, perks right up and wants to get up again. At this point, DH lets him play and I go off and put DS1 to bed and normally then he is ready for sleep.

We are very relaxed though as we wasted so much time agonising over DS1's sleep and trying different things and now he goes to bed with no fuss just through getting older. So we just take it as it comes....

My 11mo sleeps 7pm-6am, 9-10 and 1-3 most days. He is absolutely not ready to drop a nap yet.

At bedtime we do bath, teeth, into sleeping bag, stories and into cot with white noise on, hen I leave him. I can hear him singing to himself sometimes but he goes off to sleep on his own.

DS is 11mo tmw and sleeps almost bang on 11hrs at night from when we put him down. Bedtime is between 7 and half past. Naps at 9 and 2 for an hour, hour and half each time.

Bedtime routine is bath, teeth, sleeping bag, bottle, story, cuddle with lullaby/white noise, sleep. He goes straight to sleep on his own, no problem at all

DS is 13 months. When he was 12 months he started nursery so we follow the same routine they have for consistency.

Stupid o'clock: wake up
7.30 : bottle
8.00 : breakfast, clean teeth then get dressed
10.00 : fruit break
11.30 : lunch
12.00: nap for around 2 hours
3.00 : snack and bottle
5.30 : dinner
6.00 : bath or In The Night Garden depending on levels of grubbiness
6.45 : bottle
7.00 : bed

How well he goes to sleep at bedtime seems to be directly related to how much time he spends outside during the day.

DS is 11 months and we've fallen into this routine

7.30 Milk feed
8.00 Breakfast
9.30/10 Nap for 1 1/2 hours
12.00 lunch
between 2.30 and 3.30 nap for 1 hr
5.00 dinner
6.30 bath
6.45 Milk feed
7.00 bed

At weekends breakfast is often more like 9 but the rest of the day stays about the same.

My DD is nearly 11 months and has always been a beautiful sleeper, she started nursery this week and her routine has stayed pretty much as before with three FF feeds a day, bath bottle then bed around 7.30 and I have to go wake her at 7.30 the next day otherwise she will easily sleep until 8.45. I have a teenager in her her naps have never been huge but she normally has two a say of about 40 mins each and suits her perfectly.

I am very jealous of those of you who pop your babies into bed and they drift off talking to themselves. For my children, even as babies, going to sleep has been the enemy. DS2 is still awake tonight and looking perky despite being destroyed just in case he misses out on anything good like, you know, his parents doing an online shop.

DS is 11.5 months and gets up at 7ish. I've cut out the morning nap as he stopped wanting it so he sleeps 12-2 roughly (give or take half an hour) after having lunch. Dinner is at 5pm and bedtime after bath / milk is 6.30pm. He goes out like a light!

Incidentally he seems to need less sleep than DD ever did so 2 hours is all he wants in the day. Some evenings I forget I've even got kids as they both zonk out at 6.30pm and we hear nothing from DD until the morning, DS will occasionally wake in the evenings but not in the night so much anymore, other than for a brief burble from time to time.

My 11.5 month old DS wakes at 7am/7.30am, has a bottle of milk within 20 mins then breakfast within the hour. He then naps at around 10am for 1.5 hours, sometimes earlier, then half a bottle of milk, then it's crawling, trying to walk and more crawling/playing non-stop until lunch at around 12.30pm/1pm. At 2ish after we've both had lunch he has a short playtime (tmi but to get his bowels moving!) and then he naps for 1-2 hours. More milk when he wakes, half or a full bottle. He has dinner at 5.30/6pm, bath at around 7pm, milk from 7.30-8pm (he takes a while these days as he just wants to try and toddle) then book, brush teeth and in bed by 8.15pm. We've moved this back from 7.30pm bedtime as it gets light very early where we live and he was waking up far too early! It fits best with our life routine if he wakes between 7-7.30am and not at 5 or 6 am. My MIL thinks he should be in bed by 5.30 but that would mean a 4.30 wake-up call - no chance! I know I need to cut his milk but haven't got around to it yet - I'm sure he'd happily take a snack instead for mid-morning, then i'll work on removing another one. He's a big boy and a good eater though, which is why I haven't changed things for a while!

Dd is 12 months:

7.30-8am wake up
10.45 - nap for about 1.5hrs
1pm - lunch
3.45pm nap for 1.5 hours
7pm dinner
8pm bath
8.30om play/stories
8.45pm milk
9pm asleep!

Interesting. Our routine has gone AWOL since I went back to work so keen to get some sense of normally back. Ds used to sleep 8-8 but now he's at nursery for 7.30 some mornings he's obviously up earlier. He was still awake at 10 pm last night though !