Bedtime

What are your bedtime routines? Feel like my LO gets *stressed* in the bath sometimes (maybe i’m doing it wrong) so don’t think she’d love it nightly. Right now i lotion, read a book, bottle (working on moving this earlier) and sing a song before bed but feel like those in total take 10 mins.. how do you engage with your LO to make them know its bedtime?

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Hi! I get my 3 month old into her onesie just around bedtime then bounce lightly on the yoga ball while holding her and singing. The motion must remind her of being in the womb when I would walk around. It puts her to sleep so quick if she’s already tired/at the end of her wake window.

I used to think my lo hated bathes (turns out I just couldn’t get the temp just right) he likes it a tad warmer than normal, I feed if it’s time, bathe, lotion/ baby massage and talk to him about his day, then we’ll cuddle until he falls asleep. He used to go to sleep around 1130 but slowly he started going down a little earlier. Now he’s ready for bed around 9 whether he’s had his bath or not 😅

Lots of sleep coaches starting with the bottle as part of the night routine then bath etc. maybe LO will be in a better mood for bath if their belly is full?

I bathe my baby once a week. Usually we wipe neck area, lotion, owlet, sleep sack, night time meds, maybe a bottle if it’s time (burp after if so), sing songs and rock to sleep. I always do it the same even at my parents. She only wears the owlet and sleep sack at night. Is out of it as soon as she wakes up right now only thing different is nose suctioning and breathing treatment. I ended up bringing Covid home from work so she’s getting over that

We do a bath just about every night. My LO like the water a little bit warmer and we play with him then, just talking to him and have started incorporating some toys to engage him a little more. He gets a feed before his bath or after just depends on when his last feed was. Then we do jammies and lotion/massage and start reading books. He will usually tell us when he’s ready for bed while reading lol. Will go from happy and babbling to crying 😅 so we sing and get some cuddles in before putting him down. We’ve consistently done this routine since he was probably 6 or 7 weeks old, he’s 3.5 months now. Whole routine including the feed takes about 45 minutes.

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11 month old only lasting half the night in his cot

Every night my 11 month old goes to bed in his cot fine. He does a fairly good 4-5 hour stretch and then wakes. Sometimes I’m lucky and he settles himself, sometimes I just need to lay him down or rub his back to settle him. But other times it’s a case of holding him until he falls into a deep sleep and transferring him.

Some nights I get lucky and he stays asleep for a few more hours but more often than not he wakes again 30-60 minutes later and we start the process again.

Then when we get to around 3/4am I’m so exhausted I take him into either my bed or my step sons bed to go sleep and the second he lays down he falls asleep! Even if I’ve not laid next to him yet. I then sleep next to him and get up at 05:30 and he continues to sleep all the way through until 7/8am

I used to think he wanted me, but the fact he can fall straight asleep without me even laying down next to him tells me differently. The only difference is the duvet/fleece blanket I put over him

How can I stop this need to go into a different bed part way through the night?

Does anyone else feel this kind of guilt?

I’m going back to work in a couple of weeks—just two days a week—and my 8½-month-old has started her settling-in sessions at nursery. Yesterday was her second one, and it honestly broke my heart.

She’s breastfed but will take expressed milk from a bottle (as long as it’s not from me). When I picked her up, she was absolutely screaming—she’d clearly been crying for a while. Her hair was damp with tears, her eyes were red, and she was so upset. She’d refused her bottle, even though the staff member trying to feed her was a breastfeeding mam herself, and she’d just woken up from a nap too.

She’ll only be going once a week, as my mother-in-law will have her on the other day I’m working. But I can’t shake the feeling that I’m being cruel… I just don’t know if she’s going to settle. Once she gets really worked up, she’ll only calm down with someone she knows, and it took me a good 10 minutes to soothe her after I picked her up.

My mother-in-law has offered to have her both days, and I’ve said I’ll consider it if she doesn’t settle at nursery after a month—especially since my little one absolutely loves being with her.

But I keep questioning myself… am I making the right decision sending her to nursery at all? 🤍

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Hey all! my husband has recently started a new job which is night shifts 9pm-7am. He works 4 on and 4 off but has said he has to stick to same sleep pattern. Not waking until 3-4pm everyday? How are we coping with this and looking after baba by ourselves completely?

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Someone has been pushing her wing mirrors in, obviously in protest. Her car is older, and the wing mirror has been broken twice by doing this.

See my doodle. The guy doing this lives at the house at the top of the road’s turning circle. He walks the path of the purple line across the turning circle to do it to the car.

The road is not a busy road at all, it’s a short culdesac/dead end road. The pavement by my driveway is blocked by a bush and a lamppost (drawn in my pic lol), and any pedestrians would need to go on the road anyway to get past, even if her car wasn’t there. There are no obstructions on the pavement on the other side of the road.

Do you think what he is doing is fair??