I'm looking to tweak my son's bedtime routine as I am not sure that we are doing it right. In particular I would like to know what others did in terms of putting them in the cot asleep or drowsy.
At the moment we are doing:
5pm meal
5.45 bath
6.15 story and milk
6.30 cuddle to sleep and put down in cot asleep
Sometimes he is very quick to fall asleep which is fine, but other times he is quite fidgety and just wants to wrestle rather than cuddle really!
We also have to repeat this if he wakes for a night feed which is around 50% of the time, more at the moment but I think (hope!) that that is teething related. He used to go straight back down after feeds but increasingly often he is quite awake now, which at 3am is not fun!
I'd like to get to a point where I can put him in the cot drowsy and him not scream blue murder. If I was to try this now, he would just stand or sit up and cry his eyes out.
He can self settle sometimes i.e when we hear him wake in the night we give him 2-3 minutes of grizzling before making the bottle as he will sometimes just go back to sleep.
What were/are your bedtimes routines at this age?