Moms with a child under 1. How old are they and what time do you put them to bed? How do you get them to fall asleep? We start bedtime for my 9 month old by 8. We normally lay in our bed with her or rock her and then put her in her crib when she falls asleep. Sometimes it’s right away and sometimes it takes 30-40 minutes. My dad insist we’re making her go to bed too early and I need to let her just ply until she falls asleep 
. Opinions?
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You r the parents… setting up bedtime for your child is good thing…
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Do what you do mama. Starting a routine for baby that starts between 730-8pm is good.
Even if you started at 7pm…baby would be asleep by 8pm and that gives you and hubby time for each other. Which is very important lol. Just do you and dont listen to him. Lol. If that time works for you guys, then that’s it.
My 8 month old is asleep by 8 and doesn’t wake up until 6 the next morning when her daddy gets up for work. She takes a nap during the day and plays her little heart out afterwards. You’re mom and dad. It’s your decision. If you feel the bedtime is too early, change it. But not unless you think so. No one has any right to tell you how to raise your baby!! Bedtimes help parents and kids alike! Keep up the good work!
My kids are 4 and 2.5. They have been in bed by 7pm most nights their whole entire life. They take 30 minutes to an hour to fall asleep usually. We rarely break from that. This is one of those situations where you’ll have to tell dad you’re the parent and not him. You know what works best for y’all.
Baby needs a routine they grow when they sleep. I think 8pm is a good time. My son is 16 mos old and he has been at 830 since he was 6 months old. Sometimes it is 930 due to my job but most of the time he is asleep by 9pm.
We started our kids on 8:30bedtimes at 8months. We just payed them in their crib with their bottle and let them put themselves to sleep. For my kids… someone being there with them was a huge distraction. So we just put a nightlight on… and would read a book, a kiss goodnight and that would be that… the Ferber method I guess is what it’s called… so if comforting is needed we would go back and give more hugs and kisses and say goodnight again… until they were able to just rest and go to bed on their own.
I have a 3 month old that goes to bed between 7:00 & 9:30. She’s young so I’m more flexible with her schedule, but 8:00-9:00 seems like the ideal time to put a child down to sleep and I’m planning on sticking to an 8-9 bedtime when she’s older as well. Do what your comfortable with girl! Don’t listen to anyone else if it’s not what you want.
My almost 2 yr old is in bed asleep by 830
I always started to routine by 7, change, feed, sing a few songs and put in their crib by 8. Sometimes they would fall asleep sooner. The best thing you can do is put them in the crib when they are still awake so they sleep through the night. My first son we didn’t , we did the my bed then crib and he was a terrible sleeper until 7 or 8 years old. My other two we did the crib while still awake , best sleepers .
It is best to set up a bedtime routine when they are young. You do what you think is right for your child.
We listen to baby music on our Amazon dot
7 pm should be bedtime. She’s little and needs her sleep. Stop putting in your bed to get her to sleep. Put her in her crib.
From 6 months on we started putting our baby down at 7:30ish, we just lay in our bed with her while she drinks her milk and we play with her hair and cuddle, she’s out cold within 30 minutes normally sooner, and she will sleep straight through the night until she hears her dad get up for work in the morning 
At 9 months mine went to bed at 5pm.
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Your her parents you decide. My kids went to bed at 8 until they reached middle school. I always tried to put the to bed awake though so they learned how to put themselves to sleep
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Honestly I think it depends on when they wake up for when you’d ideally like them to wake up. But 8 seems like a perfect bedtime to me. My 3 month old goes to sleep between 8-9 sometimes sooner but we aim for 8’sh
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You’re doing great! A set bedtime is great & good timing!
6 weeks. We try for 8:00 bed time but at this age shes in charge
Kids, even babies need a routine. It makes being the parents much easier, establish a time for bed that’s the same every night. Make it as special as their age is capable of. It’s a bit of a chore but when you have it down pat it will simplify the day and evening.
Mine went to bed between 7:30 to8:00 I made sure they were clean and not hungry. Then I just put them in their crib and kissed them good night and they went to sleep and slept all nite
All 3 of my kids ages 6 2 and 7 mnths start bed routines at 7 and are laying down by 8 sometimes they fall asleep right away sometimes it takes a lil longer
I have a 6 month old who goes to bed at 8 and wakes up at 1am for a bottle and then 6-7am for another bottle and then up for the day around 8:30. Her nighttime routine is always the same. She has a bath around 7:30-7:45 and I lather her up with lavender nighttime lotion and then she has a warm bottle and goes to sleep with white noise. My advice is don’t let your child nap late into the day. 3pm is the latest I’ll let my daughter sleep during her nap. I also have an almost 2 year old and this routine worked for him as well! The warm bath is kinda that key indicator that it’s bed time. Keep noise low and lights dim once bedtime routine starts.
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My son is 2 months almost 3. We usually give him a bath at 7:30 then feed right after and have him rapped for bed. He sleeps at 8 and is good for most of the night. He’ll sometimes wake between 1 am to 3 am. Then he’ll wake up for the day between 5:30 to 8 am. We don’t really force him to sleep. He goes on his own.
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My daughter is 5, when she was a baby I did the gentle sleep training with the chair and moving closer to the door every night thing, she has always slept in her own bed and slept all night. My son is 1 and with him, I started the habit of getting him to sleep in our bed and moving him to his crib…FAIL. lol he won’t sleep more than an hour in it before he wakes up panicked and then it takes him a while to get back to sleep. Only wants mommy’s bed and still doesn’t sleep great in it, up at least once a night 
He used to go to sleep by 9 but now it’s pushing 11, there is no making him lay down until he’s ready. I’m pregnant now and think I’ll be doing the sleep training again with this one haha
Every kid is different. My 8 month old was going to bed at 6:30 pm and sleeping 10-12 hours every night (his choice). Lately he’s been getting sleepy around 7:30 pm.
My son is 3 months, i put him to bed about 7ish. I start with a bath, lotion, and a warm warm bottle, burp him, lay him in his crib when he is drowsy and he normally puts himself to sleep.
Having a set schedule is what I believe helped my kids now they are 4 and 8 and if they are not in bed by 8 they put themselves to bed
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Uh, no. You’re dad is wrong. My kiddo is 4 and I STILL start our bedtime routine at 8pm (so he gets into bed by 9pm)
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I do book and nursing with 9 month old son starting 6pm, once he’s done nursing I put him in his crib while he’s still awake, usually about 630pm.
My 11 month old baby girl normally goes to sleep by 10:30 11 or sometimes before depending how tired she is. I rock her to sleep and sometimes i si to her!
11 months 7pm sometimes 630 depending how his naps were and how he’s acting I nurse till done then into crib he usually falls asleep right away but he’s got two teeth coming in right now so it’s been a bit harder
My son is 15 weeks old and we started from a week old, bath at 6, bottle and bed between 7 and halfpast but he’s put himself in his own routine now, and is asleep for 7 every night! And after his bottle i just put him in his cot with some white noise on and he sends himself to sleep.
you should ask your father what time he put you guys to bed when you was little
My boy is almost a year old and I started putting in his crib around 7 months old to fall asleep by himself. Now he does it wonderfully. It was hard though lol. He goes to bed by 7.
My son is 7months old, we do dinner at 430. Let him play for about an hour then he starts getting very cranky so we take him upstairs and give bottle and rock him. He is usually asleep in crib by 6. And he wakes up at about 530 every morning.
Routine is the best way to go, from day 1 we put them to bed at 8 for the 1st couple months played some soft jazz in a dark room and swaddled they were out in a few mins… to this day my daughter is 2 and comes up to me around 8/830 and says she’s ready for bed
My son is 8 months old, on a typical night I start his bedtime routine around 8:30. He gets a bath if he needs one, changed into jammies, I let him play for a few minutes while I make him a bottle (if he needs one) and then he sits with me on the couch and typically just falls asleep and is usually in his bed by 9:30. There are occasional nights where he just wants snuggles and I rock him/pat his butt til he falls asleep and then put him in bed but usually he falls asleep watching tv on the couch with me.
It’s good to get her on. A schedule as soon as possible, babies need sleep as do the parents, at 1 I usually did a bath at night around 7:30 , then read to them then turned the lights off and said it was bed time, babies are just like us sometimes it takes a while to fall asleep don’t worry you got this mama! Parents like to tell you what they did with their kids and hope you do what they did, you can just tell them I’ll take that into consideration but in he end it’s my decision, and thank you for understanding
Do not just let her playbtill she goes to bed. Routines are key!! Find one amf stick to it.
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My 1 year goes to sleep at 7pm and wakes up at 7pm. He takes a 2 hour nap from 11 to about 1.
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9 months old his bedtime is 8 and he’s usually asleep within 10-15
Your dad is the definition of grandparent insanity. Get that baby on a good sleeping schedule at a time you choose because you will value that time as they get older.
Mine were in bed between 7 and 8 played braums lullaby routine is good
I don’t get home from work till 10 so my son usually isn’t to sleep until like 10:30 however he sleeps till about 8-9am and takes 1-2 naps a day and sleeps all night.
I just put her in her bed after saying goodnight n she just goes to sleep. Started doing that at 2 months. She’s almost 2 now and I’ve never had a problem with naps or bedtime. Nothing wrong with putting them in there just a little bit earlier so they go to bed earlier. My littlest plays with her stuffed animals before she falls asleep
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My 9 month old gets her bedtime bottle at 9 and then falls asleep usually right away after shes finished. She sleeps til between 7 and 9am
7pm is a good bedtime for that age
My 1 & 2 year old have always and still do, go to bed at 8pm. I put them both in their own bed, in their own room, and shut the door. I don’t hear another peep && don’t see them again til morning. We’ve been on this schedule since my oldest was 9 months and my youngest was 2 months.
I think 8 is a perfect time. That’s what I did when my son was under 1 and I couldn’t just lay him in bed and tell him to go to sleep lol. I would give him a bottle at 8 and cuddle him until he passed out and lay him down. Now at 19 months he sits on the couch at 8, drinks his own milk, then we go brush teeth and I tuck him in and say goodnight and he’s asleep no later than 8:45
My son is 3 months old he goes to bed around 10pm or so sleep till about 3-5am most the time depending on when his daddy gets home he always wakes him up when he gets home from work
5 months and his bedtime is 8pm and has been since he was 10 weeks. We begin his routine at 8:00 (bath, lotion, bottle, rock/sing to sleep). He usually takes what we call a “bedtime nap” at that time which is basically falling asleep for 30-60 mins. He wakes again, we give him a bottle and rock him back to sleep. It sometimes takes him an hour or more to fall asleep but are not changing his bedtime. When we wait too late he ends up overtired, cranky, and even more difficult to put down.
Structure is really important for good sleep habits. As your baby gets older they will also need to know that bedtime is when you say it is, not whenever they feel like it. Parents always have a lot of input from their parenting days, but you are the parent now and you are absolutely allowed to decide your baby’s schedule and routine. Trust those mama instincts.
8 is good for bed I have 7&8 yr old there.bath is between 7&8 and bedtime 9.and when younger it was 7and 8 bath and bed.
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I have a 7month old and I usually start bedtime routine around 7pm. We have a bath, sometimes we read a short story or cuddle, nurses around 8:45pm, listens to some light piano/nature sounds and usually by 10-10:30pm hes asleep for the night. It’s good to try and start a routine as early as possible but sometimes it doesnt work till abit later in age. My twins were usually in bed by 8pm but would wake up every 2.5-3hrs cause they were premie
Almost 8 months old. Bed time is anywhere from 7 30 to 9 30 (depending on when he last nap was).
Sometines cuddling is mandatory or she just cries about being tired while trying to play.
A lot of time i just give her her bottle, lay her blankey right next to her the way she likes it and she falls asleep.
She wakes up any where between 4 or 5 a.m. (gotta get her to the sitters somehow)
You can let your baby play until she falls asleep. When my daughter just wants to play and play but mama needs sleep i do just that. I make sure she has a clean diaper, a fresh bottle and her blankey close at all times. She can play until she gets tired and wants her bottle. 9 times out of 10 she will find it herself, or just pass right out wherever she was playing (toy in hand)
Mine has had the same routine from 4 months until now and he’s just over a year.
Dinner
Bath
Bottle in living room so he didn’t associate with going to sleep (doesn’t get this anymore)
Play for 10 minutes
Book in his room
Snuggles in his chair in his room
Then bed.
Dinner is normally around 6, and he’s in bed by 8
He normally doesn’t wake up until 8am sometimes 9.
Put baby in the crib to learn to go to sleep on their own vs hold them or have them in your bed. Eight pm is a great bed time.
Mine were always in bed at 9 p.m. slept til 7:00 - 7:30 next morning. A little nap around 12:30 … They did this until they out grew naps \ started school. But bed time stayed. 9:00.for a long while.
I think a lot depends on when the child has to get up? My sons bathed from around 6 to 7, always went to bed by 7 p.m.; and slept until 7 a.m. I sang to them, rocked them, read them a book, a final nursing and then into the crib or bed they went. I wanted them to learn to be independent of me and to learn to sooth themselves and go to sleep on their own. When they are growing they need a LOT of sleep… I never gave my son a bottle in bed because of tooth decay issues. My sons never had a cavity, one ear infection or any allergies as a result.
8 or 830. It’s normal to not always go to sleep right away. Our sound machine has always helped.
My kids are 1 and 4 now but we kept the same routine every night! Give them a snack before bed then brush teeth then read a book then say prayers give hugs and kisses say good night and shut the door they cried for about the first week or so but now they love the routine and go right to bed they get their snack and know once it’s gone to walk up the steps for bedtime a nightly routine really makes it easier my kids go to bed at 8 o’clock every night!
From 6 months on I have mine in her own bed by 715pm. She slept about 6 hours in a row but I also dream fed for about a week then it bummed up to 8 hours. When she was about 10 month she slept 10 hours. From 12 months on she was 11-12 hours and still took naps.
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I put my 6 month old to bed between 7 and 8pm. Bath, feed, snuggle and into the crib. She’s usually asleep in a few minutes. If we miss her bedtime though she gets really fussy and is much harder to get to sleep.
Some babies respond well to schedules. But honestly, every kid I know including my own doesn’t stick to a schedule. Every baby is different and what’s normal sleep for one maybe abnormal for another.
my almost seven month old goes to bed around 7-8. We just took her off the bottle before bed, no were weaning off the binky before bed too! she’s doing amazing. we give her baby food around a half hour before bed so she’s not hungry
My first kid from about 4 months on… 9 pm on the dot. Only recently has it been 930 and thats only cuz he takes a semi long nap and i like sleeping in sometimes. My 10 month old goes to sleep between 7 and 10 depending on when he wakes up and just how much he wants to play that day