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Topic: bedtimes
Posted By: lizzle
Subject: bedtimes
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 9:22pm
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Jake is now in his big boy bed, and up until recently has been going to bed at 6:30 = 7pm. But for the past two days, he has sat in his room singing until 8, an then gets up for half an hour and goes back at 8:30 no problem. We've been letting him stay up late on sundays to watch "the zoo" - he LOVES it, so am considering changing his bedtime. So, just wondering.
What are your kids ages and bedtimes? Jake - 21 months - 6:30 - 7pm Taine - 6 months - 6:00 - 6:30pm P.S Taine has now been officailly kicked out of our room nad has slept through the night eversince.\ Woohoo |
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Posted By: kasbee
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 9:48pm
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My kids go to bed really well and have never had any problems with Blair he just seems to go straight to sleep yah. Sorry not much help.
Blair - nearly 4 - 7:30 - 8:00pm Ryan and Katelyn - 1 yr - same time as Blair. They all sleep through till about 8 in the morning which i think is great. ------------- Kelly, mother to 4 wonderful children. http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kim
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 10:09pm
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Zac - Nearly 8 months - between 8 - 8:30 pm ------------- Zac Mark - 30.11.05 Samara Ailsa - 13.08.07 |
Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 3:19am
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Alan goes down between 7-8pm depending on what he slept during the day. I have alway's thought that 7pm was a good bed time for kids that is what Alan as been doing right through from very young he sleep's till around 7am in the morning. If Jake is not tired and is happy maybe he is ready to stay up that bit later. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: Anna
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 8:26am
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Quinn usually goes to bed around 6.30 - 7. But he has mostly quit sleeping during the day except in extreme tired situations (darnit!). If he naps during the day it is much later, around 8.30 - 9.
We put Quinn in a big bed oevr the weekend and I think the novelty was just too much for him 'cause he would just play and talk and read in his bed til crazy hours but that seems to have eased off now! Maybe he plays and sings just cause he can (not that you can't play and sing in a cot but more along the lines of "i'm a big kid and I am the boss?")? ------------- Anna http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 1:14pm
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My girls both used to be down in bed by 6.30 - 7pm ish but with both of us out of the house and now living quite far from the middle of town, we have peak hour traffic to battle - so most nights are only jsut gettinghome around 5.30/quarter to 6. meaning by the time bath and dinner etc is done they get to bed at 7.30 alot of the time we will give ayja dinner and put her to bed so that we can have our dinner in peace. Paris like to watch futurama with daddy (he has got her hooked on those silly programmes!)then goes to bed. Ayja had been having a few bad nights lately but now seems to have settled.
Mostly they still get to bed about 7.30 - if we are having a really late running night or dinner runs late or whatever then sometimes it's 8, i mean they are both awake at 6.30/quarter to 7 and we leave the house by 7.40 each morning, so it's a long long day for them... only consolation is that ayja is still on 2 sleeps a day, and paris still has a sleep at daycare. On the days that she is at home with me, she will sleep 3 hours in the afternoon. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 1:24pm
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both my boys - 12 mths and 2.5 yrs - go to bed about 7.30-8. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 3:43pm
Joey at 11 months old goes to bed between 7 - 7.30pm every night then it's mummy and daddy time!! YAY!!!   lol------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 9:24pm
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Han goes to bed around 7.30pm
A bit before if I am organised or closer to 8pm if I am lazy or if she does what she did tonight which is go all mental after drinking her bottle and do poos in her nice clean nappy. Arghhhhh. Then run round like a maniac when I tried to re-nappy her. Then made me read her 2 books. Then finally lay down and went to sleep. (Mind you, that was better than last night.) The little toad has just learnt to say "more", which is a pain in the butt when I used to get away with only reading one book at bedtime. Now it's two atleast. |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 7:51am
| Oh My Gosh Nikki, jake has started with "more" too. And as I sit on the bed and read stories, if I get up, he grabs my jersaey, throws me back onto the pillow and yells "mine" |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 10:25am
starting to hate that they can talk. 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 10:26am
| P.S. Can you even understand what Jake is saying half the time???? I swear Hannah thinks I'm an idiot but I can't for the life of me work out what one of her main words is. It seems to be her default word and says it ALL THE TIME! So far I have imagined it as "shut it" and "yoghurt" but really have no idea. |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 12:06pm
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Kiya goes to bed between 7pm and 7:30pm. We used to send her to bed closer to 7 and let her "read" until 7:30, but now its into bed and lights out as close to 7 as possible. She wakes around 7:30 in the morning... which is an improvement, because we were having to wake her up by 8am so she'd be ready for school on time!
Josiah goes to bed around 7pm... and wakes at 6:51am on the dot every morning! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 1:13pm
| Jake pretend he can talk and yabbers away. I say "really?" and pretend interested. IN reality - no idea. I think a lot of words he says I have imagined. Although pretty sure he swears. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 2:35pm
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jack goes to bed usually at 7.30pm but like nikki, it can be stretched out to 8pm if we are feeling lazy.
i'm surprised he doesn't swear, dean and i keep telling ourselves we need to be more careful but it's hard eh! 
we are hoping to get him into his big boy bed before his bday next month. we were in invercargill on the weekend and the motel we were at had a small bed in it so jack slept in that....he surprised me and slept really well!! fingers crossed it will be the same in his own bed and new room.....yeah right!! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 3:50pm
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I want to put Josiah into a bed by around the end of October... he will be just under 18 months (and Xavier should still be at least three weeks away). The problem is, I'm not sure if he'll be big enough... physically, I mean. Josiah is not a big child - at 14 1/2 months old he weighs 9 kg and wears 00 (9-12mth) sized clothing. As far as being old enough goes, that's not a worry... but he's only just big enough now to climb up onto the bed in his room (probably the one he'll be sleeping in) and I'm not sure he'll be able to get in and out of it okay then... what do you think? ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 4:25pm
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To start with, when I put Han in her bed I removed the legs on the bed so it was just the base and mattress sitting on the ground. So she could get out easily and also so if she fell out it wouldn't be so far to the ground.
I've put the legs back on her bed and I think she can only just climb up on it now. Anyway, I don't think it'll be a problem if he is swimming in the bed, less chance he'll fall out right? |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 4:59pm
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The bed is a divan base (one of those ones with drawers) and doesn't have legs... at the moment he sleeps most of the time across the head of the cot with his feet sticking out of the bars and his head against the other side!
I'm mostly worried that he'll keep falling off the bed trying to get onto and off it. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 8:25pm
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Hrmmmm.... it's still about 13 or so weeks away right?
Do you think he'll get better at climbing in and out in that time? Or do you have a foam mattress or something you can put down beside it for the first few months? --- Bugger, just realised you said that you aren't sure he'll be able to get in and out by the time babe arrives. Well... could you keep him in the cot if you have a bassinet for the new baby? I have one at my mum's place that you are more than welcome to borrow. When I go home next I can bring it back with me...? |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 9:01pm
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We are looking at getting a bassinet for Xav (so he can be in our room initially, as the boys will be sharing a room)... I just don't want Josiah to feel like he's being kicked out of his cot for Xav to move into it!
Thanks Nikki, that's really nice of you! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 29 July 2006 at 12:09am
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Jack sleeps about 7 30pm-8.30am
I was just wondering lizzle how long does taine sleep at night and how long during the day? Jack would have 3 naps for 2-3 hours if i let him but if i do he doesn't sleep at night I just don't know how long i should let him sleep during the day |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 29 July 2006 at 9:44am
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Taine sleeps from 6pm - 6am now (woohoo!). During the day he's been really funny recently. However, as he was playing with his favourite teething ring this morning (i.e. my finger), I found abother tooth. So I think he was cvutting hence the no naptime He got up at 6, back in bed at 7, and is still asleep. I was trying to give him at least two naps a day, but now seems to be about 7/8 - two or so hours later, 12/1 - two hours later, 3/4 - two hours later. Now, this is all in theory cause in reality, he'll sleep sometimes for two hours, and sometimes for twenty minutes. So i just try and go with the flow, but he ALWAYS goes to bed, when Jake goes down for his nap. I need at least 30mins non-child time.
Also Becs, Jake is huge, so the bed was no big deal as for getting up and out, but he won't. He iwll get up and jump on it during the day, but when we put him in for nap-time, bed time whatever, he will not get out. Even if he is crying. It's really weird. And salightly annoiying in the morning when he is calling "mama" and I'm just trying to make him come to me cause it's cold. he won't budge. Maybe Josiah wilkl be the same. as for kids who move about....Jake was appalling inthe cot. He'd never be under blankets, he'd always shift and get legs and arms stuck through the bars. Now in his bed, no problem. He's fallen out twice but was not the worse for wear, cried and we put him back no problem. our main problem at the moment ais he keeps sticking his hands down his nappy and playing with himself. Now I don't care about that, but he brings his penis out of the nappy and then goes to sleep and pees the bed. I've changed it every day! very annoying. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 29 July 2006 at 1:58pm
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lol go jake! jack finds his penis very amusing also, but not quite to that extent
jack is also one that will not stay still in his cot, but the couple of times he has slept in a big bed he stays still all night...why is that? strange kids ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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