Hi All!
Myself and my partner are in a difficult co-parenting situation. He spends one night a week at our house over night and the rest of the week he is with his maternal grandparents.
On that one night he is here we had a unorthodox bedtime routine that would look something like this:
6pm dinner
6:30pm bath time
7pm playing in our bedroom, jumping around and tickle monster
7:30pm stories and snuggles
7:45/8pm he would be asleep
Now, his grandparent have great difficulty getting him to sleep often around 10/11pm they do the quite time and sleepy bedtime routine. (We did try the sleepy and quite time routine but it just didn't suit him)
So then, yesterday we went to a sleep Nurse at sure start at the request of his grandmother. The sleep Nurse suggested that we were the problem and that we needed to change our bedtime routine as clearly the lively bedtime that we had developed wasn't working for him.
It is now 9pm we have done all the quite time routines and he is still wide awake.
Are we wrong for thinking that the way that works is the way that we should do it rather than the way a book says?
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