How do you do nighttime?

[AbiSolsticebaby]

Hello I am having a hard time putting my daughter(5 months) down to sleep at night, so far I have been slinging her and going to sleep with her at 9pm. But I can't see slinging her much longer and I kind of want to enjoy some evening activities,like watching a movie or doing some work, without her awake or weighing on me. She goes down for naps but like last night I nursed her down and she woke up a 1/2 hour later and I went in and sure enough she had to use the potty, so I don't want to use the same method that others are using with diapers(letting her cry 5 minutes then comforting) because she might be cueing me.
So how do you ensure that your babe gets enough sleep and that you get a little time to yourself?

[lexmas]

DS sleeps in the sling or in arms as well...:

[NewAtThis]

I don't ec at night...:
dd is just too bundled up and swaddled for us to make it work. The ec routine wakes her up so much it is really hard to get her back to sleep. So I put on a good absorbant diaper and change her midway through the night or in the morning. I do watch for her poopy cues though, b/c I know she won't sleep until she goes, in that case. Fortunately, that is usually towards the morning.
Anyway, I find that dd still 'gets' the ec routine, even if we don't do it at night, it doesn't really hold her back, KWIM?
Can you leave her nakey to see if her fussing is really a cue or not? Maybe that would help.

[cmg]

Maybe do a heavy feeding an hour or so before bed time, play (low-key) or sling for a while until she's peed once or twice, then nurse briefly to sleep? DD can hold it a bit better now, but for a while she had to have completely emptied the bottom and somewhat filled the top, if ya know what I mean, before she would go to sleep.