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Toddler wind down routines
imsmum:
Margot needs a long time in her bed to process her day even after wind-down with me and I have never been able to change that so we just start super early (6:45 with teeth, jammies, try potty, songs and/or books, then then the grande finale of Dora bandages in her crib) and I usually leave her between 7:15 and 7:30. She talks away to herself until she falls asleep at 7:50 to 8:10. Some kids just need to wind themselves down I think.
Fiona (Leah & Kians Mom):
think my dd needs her wind down now alone in her cot, before was 7.30 bed and sleep, now she chats for an hour and more, ended up being cranky so now dh is away i made bedtime 7.15 so at least she is asleep by 8.15 and wake up around 7, she was much better today. Started about 5 weeks ago
Carmela's Mom:
Our routine isn't as calming as some of them posted, but I'll tell you anyway. At 7:00 Carmela has a snack. We're normally outside playing so she'll eat it outside. At 7:30 it's bath time. We come in and go straight to the bath. She's in the bath until 7:45 or so. She plays pretty hard in the bath. After bath, she chooses her own pajamas (choice of two), I put her lotion on, brush her hair, etc. and then we come downstairs. She gets sippy cup of milk and we usually color together for a few minutes. At 8:15 we start cleaning up (8:10 if its super messy) the playroom. Then she chooses 3 books to read. We come on the couch and cuddle and read the 3 books. We always end with the same Night Time Pooh book. Then she kisses Daddy and the dog goodnight (Joey goes to bed at 8:00). We go upstairs, brush teeth, change diaper one last time into night time diaper. While we change diaper we go over "what did we do today".....and I tell her everything we did. Then it's up in bed where I sing her "You are My Sunshine" "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and then I say our prayers and tell her "night night, I love you, sleep tight, Mommy see you in the morning". And I walk out usually about 8:30-8:40. Most of the time she's asleep by 8:45. If not, then 9:15 the absolute latest.
Fiona (Leah & Kians Mom):
Our routine changes every now and then, this is what we are on at the moment
Dinner 6pm finished around 6.30
Quiet play, usually blocks especially if dh is home. Tidy up then kisses and hugs for Daddy.
We have to put our shoes under the buggy in the hall ::) then into her room. Vest on and nappy change and clean or cats lick with wipe ( bath/shower during day time). Then into sleeping bag sitting on the spare bed in her room, both of us have to kiss both her feet. Then we read 1 book, each book usually lasts about 3 months before she gets tired of it, we are on the hungry catepillar. She kisses each page, looks at the 5 animals on her sleeping bag and then into bed, kisses and hugs for cuddles ( teddy) dolly molly and Leah and then I go. This takes about 15 minutes in total. She then proceeds to chat for about 50 minutes to herself in the dark. We go into her room at 7.00 pm and bed at 7.15 pm since it's taking her so long to sleep, used to be sleep time at 7.30 but with an hour long chat time it was closer to 9 some nights when she fell asleep so I moved foward by 15 mins.
GG:
Wow! There are lots of lo's that take almost an hour to fall asleep! Right now ds runs around his crib, pulls down Winnie the Pooh blankets that are on either side of the crib, plays with the 1 or 2 stuffed animals I leave in his crib (tried leaving them out one time but he still didn't sleep until an hour later) and babbles. I hope he's not still running around when he's in his toddler bed (I won't be moving him until he's at least 2 yo, unless he figures out how to jump out of his crib).
Something that's been helping is to let him do his running around/playing for about half an hour, then go in and caress his back, his hair, his belly. This has been very calming and he falls asleep within 5 min of me doing that. But he needs to get rid of that last bit of energy otherwise the caresses don't help. ::)
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