What is your two year old's bedtime? - Page 2

[Birdie B.]

Originally Posted by JBaxter

on a 3 hr nap day its 930-10 on a 1 hr nap day 830-9.

Our daughter is a lot like this. I have just learned to accept that she will not go to bed early, plus my husband likes to be able to spend time with her at night. As long as she's only waking up 1-2 times a night, I'm ok with that.

[manleywoman]

Our guy is in bed at 8:00. It used to be earlier, but when summer brought longer days, he had trouble going down at 7. I think once the days get short again it will shift back.

[elmh23]

8pm is bedtime in our house for all children, and has been since our oldest was about 2. She has always woken up between 6-7, so this works for us. I considered a 7pm bedtime, but a lot of nights dh won't get home until 6:30 and it was really important to us that she spend time with him. Our second child has lights out at 8, but a lot of nights doesn't fall asleep until at least 9. He actually wakes up earlier than dd, so he's chronically sleep deprived He naps maybe 1hr a day now that school is back in session (without that afternoon car ride, he doesn't nap at all!)

For those whos kids go to sleep at 7 or earlier, how much time a day do they spend with the working parent?

[WindyCityMom]

Right now we're back to our rhythm (earlier in the summer everything was all over the place!! ) but now things are better. She's in bed around 7:30-8.

[LROM]

We've always been on the later side of bedtime with DD who is 21 months old. Most nights the routine starts between 9:15-9:30 and sometimes she's asleep by 9:45, other times not until 10:15. She gets up between 7:15-8:00.

We still co-sleep and she BFs through the night, but that's all about to change. When we almost weaned her from night feedings a couple months ago (long story why we back-slid and she's back to pre-wean behavior), it seemed like she slept better, deeper, and was happier in the morning (even though she was totally miserable many times during the night. So I'm interested to see if her sleep hours change when we wean her for good soon.

And she usually naps about an hour between 12:00-2:00 on weekdays.

[crunchy_mommy]

DS goes to bed between 11pm-midnight & wakes up around 10am. He naps from 2-3pm or so most days, other days the nap is earlier or later or split into 2 short naps if we're in the car a lot.

He was sleeping 3-5 hour stretches & just waking to nurse, but we're having dietary issues or teething or something that's causing him to wake more often this week.

ETA: It took me a long time to figure out the 11:30pm bedtime. I thought he was "supposed" to go to bed around 8 or 9pm the latest, like most toddlers, but he slept HORRIBLY with the early bed time. He does so well with the late bedtime. I hate the one-size-fits-all bedtime recommendations.

[Abraisme]

When my DS was that age he was in bed by 8:00pm every night. Some nights were more of a struggle than others, but he was supposed to be sleeping by then. He seemed to go in and out of phases. Sometimes went to bed easily and other times tested his boundaries.

[Artichokie]

My 2.5 yr old wakes @ 8:30 am, does not nap, and goes to sleep @ 10:30 pm. She STTN but usually wakes @ 6 am to nurse and cuddle before falling back asleep.

ETA: This fall our hope is to change her sleeping pattern back an hour so that she wakes @ 7:30 am and goes to bed @ 9:30 pm. Honestly, we are all perfectly happy with the current arrangement, but we have some activities starting this fall that start at 9 am and it would be helpful if she woke a bit earlier so we won't be rushed.

[To-Fu]

Although it's against everything I've read, especially Sleepless in America, what worked for us was dropping the nap. My guy is closer to three than two, though, so I'm not sure that would work for you. Once we dropped the nap, his bedtime became somewhere between 7:30 and 8:30. Before that, there were hours-long struggles that culminated in him falling asleep between 9:30 and 10:00. Thought I was losing my mind! It's so great to have my evenings back, even though I miss getting a break during the day.

[poorlittlefish]

My 2 year old, also used to be a bad sleeper goes to bed at 8pm and wakes at 6:15 to go to daycare.
If she goes to bed late, like 8:30 or 9:00 she is up several times at night and very difficult to get down. I have learned to be very uptight and get her in the sack by 8:00pm or all hell breaks loose! She also naps every day from 1:30-3:30

[Katie T]

I have a pretty good sleeper so take this for what it is worth.

She "makes" her own schedule and is pretty consistent with it. For bedtime it is between 7 and 8 but on days she doesn't get a nap due to appt and such she goes down at 6:30 as that is as late as I can keep her up. She wakes between 6 and 7:30am and goes down for a nap at 12pm.

She turned 2 the end of June.

[just_lily]

During the week, DD goes to bed around 7 to 730, and sleeps until 7 or 730 in the morning. She naps in the early afternoon, usually from noon until 2.

On the weekends she usually stays up later, and sleeps in a bit more - much to our delight.

I think if left to her own devices she would go to bed an hour or two later, and wake an hour or two later in the morning. But my daycare kids start arriving at 7:30 and that wakes her up, so she is ready in the evenings for an early bedtime.

If your kids have the ability to sleep later in the morning, I don't think it really matters what time they go to bed as long as they get enough over all sleep. But if you are trying to get kids up early for school or daycare, then definitely an early bedtime will be needed by most kids.

[tjjazzy]

bedtime is at 8 and he's usually asleep before 8:30. naptime is generally around 1:30/2 p.m. for a couple hours. sometimes 3. all this applies to both boys. sometimes i let ds1 stay up a little longer so we can deal with ds2 first.

ETA: i forgot! he wakes up around 6 or 7 a.m. most days. if he gets to bed late or wakes up in the middle of the night, sometimes he lets me sleep til 8.

[pedi08]

My 2 year old naps each day 3 hours from about 12-3 and his bedtime is between 7-7:30. He wakes each day between 6:15-6:30.

[bella99]

My daughter will be two in November.

Her bedtime is at 8. We go up to her room around 7:30 and play up there, get her changed into her pj's, and then at 8, she gives kisses to her father, and I put her to bed.

I used to sing to her but now, we sit in a rocking chair and talk for a couple of minutes and cuddle with the lights off (she has two night lights as it's a big room). After 5-10 minutes, I ask her if she is ready to go lay down by her friends (stuff animals), and she usually says yes, and I lay her down in her crib, arrange her animals according to who she wants next to her, and then give her a kiss, and leave. She usually jabbers on for a few minutes or goes right to sleep.

She sleeps until 7:30-8.

[colsxjack]

Our DD is 14 months old.
No matter what time she goes to bed she wakes between 7-8am.
We usually try to have her in bed by 8ish. She is usually ready and goes down pretty easily.
On days that my DW works she doesn't go to bed until 9pm. This is too late for her and we have to push her to get her to stay up and she is cranky. But she wouldn't get to see her mother those days if we didn't do that as Mum is gone to work before anyone gets up. This gives her 15-30mins cuddle time with Mama before bed.
She sleeps with us and nurses throughput the night as 3 days a week she cannot nurse during the day as Mama is working.
She sleeps for about 1.5-2 hours during the day...from about 1-3pm.

[MamieCole]

We've always followed our LO's lead in regard to sleep. When DS1 was 2, he usually went to sleep between 9-10pm, woke/stirred several times per night to nurse, woke for the day around 9-10am. He was napping once per day for about 2 hours.