Bedtime too early???

[TS123]

Quick question -- what time do/did you all put your babies to bed at 9 months old? I'm starting to wonder if my baby wakes early because I put him to bed too early (between 7 and 7:30pm).

Dd is 8 months & she goes to bed between 6.30-7pm she starts to whinge & when i say "night nights" she jumps up & down on her bottom

She wakes anything from 6.30-8am this morning it was 8am.

So no i dont think it's to early.

No I don't think it's too early either! My children go to bed at 6pm and get up between 7 ad 8am

just be glad he goes down that early! my ds (and ds of friends of mine) don't go down til 9ish. and still wakes quite early most days.

DD (18 months) has been going to bed at 6:30pm since birth and still goes quite happily at this time. She wakes at about 7:30am.

What time is your baby waking? Most people seem to find that late to bed doesn't often mean late waking.
I go according to when I know my daughter is tired, and by 6:30 she's happily ready for bed.
At 9 months, I made sure she never slept later than 3:30 in the afternoon and she was always ready for bed at 6:30.

7-7.30pm is pretty normal bedtime for babes and toddlers.

DS went to bed a 6.30pm until he was 1yr then its been 7/7.30pm for the past 6 months

sorry to hijack this thread but would you consider 9pm to late to put a 4 month old to bed, my ds has his bottle and bed at about 9pm, he sleeps until about 7am, has bottle and change then ofetn goes back off for a hour. He normally has a hour about 1ish then again at 5.
He seems happy with this but i dont know if he should be in bed earlier

kayleigh that sounds fine. TS123 - how early is early?

my 6 month goes up at 7, he will wake between 6.30 and 7.30 notmally around 6.30 thou). when we were leading up to the 7pm bedtime it was 8/9 oclock when he was younger and I personally found he was so ratty all day/cat napping etc when really he needed a good long sleep instead, he still wakes thou once normally.

my dd i now 2yrs 6mths and still goes down between 6.30 - 7pm at the lastest unless we are out.

Although we out at a bbq a few weekend ago, she went to go to bed at 7pm and was found laying on the stairs saying "night night time."

I have always worked on the theory that evening are my time to relax.

He's been waking at 5-5:30am and I can't seem to get him back to sleep. He doesn't wake up happy and rested, he's clearly fighting sleep at that hour (cranky, half asleep and whining/crying). Then he's way overtired by the time 9am rolls around and wails for his first nap. If I put him down for a nap earlier than this, then his entire day will shift too early (I previously had this problem and don't want to go back to that schedule). My gut feeling is that it's the breastfeeding at 5am that provides an incentive for him to wake up too early and if I continue to respond to him by bf, he'll continue to want to wake at that hour. I guess I just wanted to be sure that I'm not expecting too much of him to go back to sleep at 5am when he's been in bed for 10hours. I'm inclined to cut out the 5am bf since he should be able to go an extra hour without milk and that will remove any positive reinforcement he's getting at 5am. I'm just afraid that he'll wail inconsolably until morning and I won't have the resolve to stick it out. Anyone have success cutting out the 5am bf???

Hmm DD used to wake then but have a bf and go back to sleep, DS used to wake then and that was it. But they were both going to bed at 7.30 ish.

I'm convinced DS is just really good at fighting sleep. He has always hated napping and is considered very alert by everyone who meets him. So when he gets up at 5am, he's able to resist sleeping despite needing the extra hour. He's going to undoubtedly put up a good fight if I stop the 5am bf but I figure I don't have much to lose if I'm getting up at that hour anyway right? At least this way, there is a chance he will stop doing it because there is no "reward" provided. Not sure though . . . Please help.

TS123, I do know what you mean abotu fighting sleep. DS sometimes does this - if he wakes before 5am he will go back to sleep but after 5/5.30am and he decides that 10 hrs is enough. I havn't tried a later beditme because he CAN sleep until 6am which is acceptable. pLus I like having my evenings!

Wish I knew why he woke up at 5 some mornings though

riab -- that describes my ds to a tee! I know he is best on 11 hours sleep. When he decides not to get that last hour, he's really cranky and rubbing his eyes all morning (starting as early as 7:30am!!) I also know that by 7pm he's obviously tired and falls asleep easily. Tell me, do you bf or give DS a bottle when he wakes that early? do you ignore him? do you go get him and start the day?