Method of Putting an Older baby (over 6 mos) to bed at night

Come 7:00 p.m-- it's into the bathroom for my one year old and two and a half year old. If they don't need bathing I scrub them down with a warm face cloth, then usher them down to the nursery room.


Once in their baby cribs I strip off each kids diapers regardless of whether they're wet or not, double diapers are fastened on each child, rubber pants are put back on, and the kids are then allowed some free television time.

By 7:30-- 7:45-- it's into bed for the two, a quick story read, and off to bed. My kids are good sleepers.

 

I don't really understand how you can say teaching parenting is not at all the same as parenting... why wouldn't you teach them the skills you would actually use in real life?? I always hated that about classes, when nothing was actually applicable to reality. Anywho... I guess I can understand that it is not your personal views, rather the guidlines at your workplace... but it just doesn't make sense to me. Why can't everyone just agree that it's different for every child and for every parent and just be more open minded? What do they tell you to teach?? I'm curious.

As for our bedtime routine... there really isn't a strict one. My son is 7 months old and he usually has dinner at around 7:30. we eat really late around here since I work late evenings at home. then we bathe him/put him in his pjs and he plays for an hour or so... runs around to burn off whatever energy he has left... and when he's obviously really tired we'll take him upstairs with a bottle, rock him until he finishes it and then put him down in his crib. He is also not one who will fall asleep in your arms. usually. he tosses and turns a bit and snuggles with his blanky and then he's out.

He also lost interest in his pacifier around 3 months. he just likes to chew on them now since he is teething. lol.

he does not sleep through the night however. I stop working at midnight, watch tv or lay down for a while and he wakes up around 2-3am and has a bottle. I then take him back to my bed where we sleep together for the rest of the night. So we kinda have a combination of sleeping arrangements.

This is what works for us. I think it is going to be very different for everyone. And again I don't really see how anyone can tell you what is right for you and your baby. Don't people just have any common sense anymore?

 

My 22 mo old simply gets asked "Do you want to go night night?" and if he does he runs to his crib (he still isnt talking). Sometimes he fusses for a moment, but generally he just goes to sleep. He still gets a sippy of water to take tobed.

My 11 mo old still nurses and cosleeps, so she falls asleep on the boob. Every now and then she'll fall asleep while nursing and Ill lay her down in her pack n play and she'll sleep there for awhile. But 9 times out of 10 she snuggles up with mama in our bed, with a boob in her mouth, and thats how she drifts off to sleepy land.