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Yes, but I'm not sure if it is too young to really tell.

DH works second shift and I'm working on a thesis from home, so we keep strange hours anyway (we sleep ~ 2-10am). LO has slotted in perfectly (she sleeps from around 12-10, with one to two feeds). I have tried to put her on an earlier schedule and it hasn't worked - she'll simply wake at 11 and stay awake for 1-2 hours.

At this stage we aren't worried, because she gets 14-16 hours a day/night, her long sleep is at night and we have a loose routine. We will be going home to visit NZ in a few months and so will be having to deal with jetlag anyway, so figure we will try to get her on a more traditional schedule then for when she starts daycare. DH and I are both nightowls though, so we suspect she will always be.

Yeah, our LO goes to bed between 9 and 10. She wakes up at 8. It works out now because I don't have to be to work until 10 a.m. but if my schedule changes she'll have to go back to at least 8 to 7. It's nice because we get more time together in the evenings.

Yep. DH and I are both night owls and so is LO. She usually goes to bed between 9-10pm and sleeps for 12 hours. Works for us!

Yup, her natural bedtime is around 930/10pm. I wasted so much time fretting about it, questioning what I was doing wrong, but recently started embracing/accepting that it is what it is and enjoying the extra time together.

So I thought about this thread tonight when I was at church and an older man commented that it was awful late for me to have my baby out. It was 6pm! Glad to know I am not the only mama who has a baby that doesn't go to bed early!

@Mrs. Sunshine: Right?!

My kids both seem to like to be down by 7pm. The freetime at home at night is nice BUT it gets so old to not be able to go out anywhere after around 5:30 at night. I'm stuck at home with them while they sleep unless I want to deal with a breakdown and lots of crying.

@jhd: Lol for days at that. My daughter is like her father - her ideal sleep schedule would be 11pm - 8am, with a late afternoon nap. I don't really care for that super late bedtime, but it's not terrible. She's three, and she still REALLY needs her nap, but basically, if she naps at all, she's up until 11. And if she doesn't, she's still up until 10. We're not CIO people, so we mostly just roll with it.

My husband's ideal sleep schedule would be able 3am - 11am, so it's clear where she gets it. I don't really mind it. Now that I'm pregnant, it can be hard for me to be passed out at 8:30 when they're still having fun. But besides that, I like it.