Anyone else put their baby to bed at 6pm??

[Gab3478]

Hi everyone, have posted on here a couple of times and have had great support so just looking for some reassurance.
My DD is now 10 months and always been a terrible sleeper day and night. Things have improved massively but I can always guarantee at least two wake ups a night.
She is pretty much always in bed by 6/630pm and everyone keeps telling me this is top early. Her pm nap usually ends around 230pm and by half five she is wiped out. She is going through a stage of waking at 530-am so now I'm starting to doubt myself and think maybe I should be stretching her out - however I'm not sure if it is teeth as she doesn't seem happy to be awake so early iykwim?
Does anyone else put their LOs to bed early? Do you think I'm wrong? I'm also starting to panic about the clocks changing in oct, how do you deal with time changes? Do I just suck it up and put her to bed at new time of 6 and hope she deals with it! Dreading the 530 wake up becoming 430!
Thanks all

My 17 month old goes to bed anywhere between 6pm and 7pm. If he is tired, he will happily go down at 6pm and sleep for 14 hours.

I normally find that if he goes to bed past 6.30pm he will wake earlier, about 5pm. Sleep begats sleep apparently. Earlier bedtime does not always equal early rising.

Can you see if you can get her to take another nap at about 4.30-5ish? Just for 30-45 mins? This is what my 10 month old does. usually wakes up about 5.45pm, and then we start the wind down routine for proper bed, with her being back in by 7!

DD a bad sleeper too.

She also wakes up at 5.30am EVERY DAY

No matter whether she goes to bed at 6/7 or 8pm

You do what's best for you and take no notice of anyone who says it's far too early. (7pm standard in UK??? Says who? It may be an average but all babies are different, and if they are tired and flagging at 5.30pm you shouldn't feel obliged to keep them awake another 1.5 hrs for the sake of some kind of bloody protocol)

Don't forget, in winter its dark at 4pm!

Good Luck xx

My mum used to put me in bed at this time! Must admit, our kids go at 7 pm. I like my lie ins.

My ds had a 6.30 bedtime from about 6 months until about 15 months. He tended to wake between 5.15 and 6 but putting him down later made no difference to wake time. Bed time gradually crept back to 7.30 now that he's almost 2. and think it will stay there from now on. He wakes now between 6 and 6.30. So chances are the schedule will naturally move later over the next 6 months for you.

OP definitely do whats best for you. My ds also has an early bedtime atm - 6.30pm & he's 3! Not always been this way, but he needs it now as he's dropped his nap & he sleeps longer for it.

If you are unhappy with the current early wakeup time, I would def consider shifting the morning nap later, 9am is maybe a little early at his age. Do it slowly by 10-15mins per week until it gets to the ideal time. If natural awake time is 3-3.5hrs & you would like your dc to wake up at 7am, the nap ideally needs to start at 10-10.30, iyswim? The afternoon nap would also shift later.

Thanks everyone for your responses and reassurance. She has totally changed her sleeping patterns since I posted this and is now resisting any form of nap (I can hear her waking up now after a 25 min sleep, I could cry). I'm just going to stick with 6pm for now until she sorts herself out again :( babies!!

I do the exact same as you, have done since day 1, sometimes it's half 5, sometimes 7...but I love those few hours of evening for time with dh...I just put myself to bed early too...no problem! Dd is 8 months

Can I ask a question - when people mean a bedtime of X, do they mean asleep by then? I take DS up at 6.30 but he's not asleep until a hal hour or even hour later.

At that age my dd was in bed by 6pm, and she'd have a 2 1/2 hour nap in the middle of the day. She'd sleep through until about half 6-7. When she was about 12 months old she started to sleep in later and naturally bedtime got a bit later, she now goes to bed at 7 and gets up at 8 and still has 2 1/2 hours sleep during the day. From the age of about 7 days old she was in bed by 6! (She's now 20 months old).

My 3 get up at 6.30 am if that go to bed by 7 pm or 11 pm, so all three are asleep by 6.45 pm - DS 1 is 5 and so grumpy if he doesn't get a full nights sleep.

What an awful thing to say to someone! My goes robbed 5.30-6 every night and sleeps 12 hours and has done for a while. In fact some mornings he's uonat 6.30 so I don't really see myself as 'mad'

It’s not madness.. some people like myself am a commuting mum and 5:30 suits me and my partner very well due to our jobs. It’s unfortunate and may not be considered perfect but that’s what brings home the deerskins! We put our daughter to sleep at 6:30 - 7:00 she gets up at the same time if we put her to bed at 8:30 - 9:00 if we have had an engagement . 5:30 - 6:00 was her time in the womb and to this day 😂

Hi i have an 8month year old who has been on formula for 2 months now. He goes to bed for around 6pm. He either wakes up around 8ish or 9ish for a feed or i give him a feed. Then he usually wakes up around 2ish or 3ish for another feed.

Is this normal?
How do i get rid of the dream feed and the night feed?
He is eating 3 meals a day.

Me 🙋🏻‍♀️ She decided at 5 weeks that her natural bedtime was 6pm; if she wasn’t fed, bathed and somewhere dark and calm by then she’d be awful all night.

She’s not much of a napper so this has continued, though is now closer to 6.30 (she’s now 10.5 months). Her normal wake up time is 5.30/6ish. She has to be up and dressed by 7.10 as that’s when I drop her off at the in laws’ on the way to work.

Every now and then I try shifting her bedtime later to see if the morning could be more like 6.30. Each time we get screaming in the evening, more night wakes and a 4am start. Not worth it!

My kids go to bed at 6 most nights they are 3 and 1, they have to go to ensure they get a full 12/13 hours sleep as up early in the morning for nursery. I've tried putting it back but by 5:30 there eyes are rolling in the head trying to push bedtime back works awful for us they don't eat Tea because they get too tired they have accidents if they get too tired and overtired bedtime just doesn't work. However they have a solid bedtime routine. Do what works for you