hello,
Have had a lovely time with my sister and partner, who have left today. Have a pile of work to do tonight. Boo. And yawn.
I start to put DS to bed at 7pm, and he is asleep by 7.30 most nights.
Definitely cultural. Argentine babies have a much longer afternoon siesta and go to bed later. I am thinking about doing this in the summer, as it does get really hot. But generally am not good at making directed changed with sleep, so we'll probably just see how things go.
He sometimes has two naps, sometimes 1. He is almost always awake by 6, occasionally at 5. he never sees DH at night, but we all spend time together in the morning.
In fact sleep is a bit rubbish. I still cuddle him to sleep, he still wakes in the night, and spends at least part of most nights in bed with us. Yawn.
We have 2.5 months to go before the new baby arrives. Walking and feeding himself well are more important to get sussed before than sleep and talking I think (and I think that these two will be OK), but it would be nice if we had some progress on the sleep as well.
WRT sleep - how much does your baby sleep in 24 hours? DS, about 12.5 hours.
Re: the new baby. I don't think that there are any double buggies that will fit our lift (1mx1m with a 7cm door. A friend is coming round with a phil and teds and we will try it out, but I am not sure. And those really tiny side by side doubles may just be a bit small for DS who is not really on the petite side.