what to do when we get home late in the evening.....

[HOPE777]

Hello, my name is Jill and I have a four month old daughter. Tonight we got home pretty late and I didn't know if I should follow our routine as usual...taking a bath and such...or if I should have just fed her and put her to bed. We got home around 1045 pm and usually she is in bed by then. I went ahead and gave her a bath and fed her and put her down and she seemed to do ok...but what is the best thing to do? Hope is definately one who depends on her routine and I don't want to do anything that would really throw her off. Thank you so much...JILL

[em_here]

If it worked sticking to the bath then bed, I would go with it, probably relaxes her and puts her in the mood for night sleep.  As long as it isn't too often she is up late, I doubt it will undo all your hard work 

[lawnseed]

Hello

Another alternative we use is to do bedtime at a different location (obviously only works if you're at a friend's!) and then transfer at around 10-11 and just treat the feed then as the dream feed - both of mine have then had no struggle just popping back to sleep.

But whatever works best!!