Bedtime routine baby

[Gummybearmum]

I read so much about bedtime routines.. can you please tell me what yours are and how do you fit them in when trying to cook dinner too?
(7 month old DS)

Depends on where you are with your weaning journey and naps I suppose, and what you mean by cooking dinner - for you, for baby or for both to eat together?

I have 2 kids, now 1 and 3.

My routine has always been dinner altogether, play, story, nappy, bath (if it's bath night), PJs, sleeping bag, another story, breastfeed to sleep, plonk in cot. The time always flexed around hunger or tiredness cues came in.

Bedtime used to be about 630 (so we'd eat about 445/5), and then by 545 we'd be tidying and having story ready for bath about 6 and settling down for sleep by 630. Nowadays, it's about 715 settling down to sleep.

When youngest was tiny we'd have the second story in my bed while baby fed to sleep, toddler tucked under my arm snuggling the other side reading the story. Then we'd dump baby in the cot next to my bed and sneak out with me and toddler so I could tuck toddler in their bed in their room.

Now they're bigger, the second story is in the eldest's bedroom, we say good night and tuck in my eldest and I take the littlest to their bed.

What's your routine at the moment?

Re: Cooking dinner, we are out and about every day so rely on the slow cooker a lot. Quick to chuck in before we head out or during a nap if we're home. Or I just start prepping dinner at 4, 430 whatever. Depends what we're eating that day and how elaborate a meal it is 😂

I hold the lasagne until the weekend when we've got less on.

Plan the meals in advance helps, too.

Thank you so much for your reply, this is very helpful. Currently my son eats with us at about 6:30-7, as I find that he wants food when we're eating. We then play, read, get changed for bed, breastfeed in his room and he's down between 7:30-8. I feel like his bed time is too late which could contribute to him waking often at night, so will try an earlier bed time and eat with my partner later (he's a farmer so depending on time of year comes in later).