https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:25:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183541 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:14:55 +0000 looch 1183541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We usually are doing bedtime stuff between 7 and 8.</p> <p>Can you husband have time in the morning with your LO? Not sure about what the mornings look like for you, but for a while, that was when my husband and son hung out a lot! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183496 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:43:06 +0000 Foodnerd81 1183496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: if she wakes up early he will usually take her for a little while so I can get a little extra sleep. He should leave by 8 but in wonderful days she sleeps until then. He usually does get at least a little time in the morning no matter what. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183478 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:05:11 +0000 MamaJ 1183478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: DS started napping better around 6 months. But now at 11 months it is crap again. He seems to be able to stay up until at least 8, no matter if he naps or not. Maybe it will get easier when she is older, but now I would just let her sleep when she needs it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183463 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:20:28 +0000 shopaholic 1183463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I've been meaning to reply to your other posts about napping. Don't feel bad. I have a horrendous napper too. I've been trying in vain for months to get K to nap consistently. :sad: </p> <p>Back to this topic. K's bedtime routine starts ~ 9pm every night. It's this late just so that DH is able to see her most nights for the brief bath &amp; getting dressed for bed period. I've considered moving it up, but then they'd really never see each other. She's pretty used to the routine. If she had a particularly long stretch since her last nap, I'll try to move up bedtime sooner. But even if she's asleep, she'll tend to wake up at 9 and we have to do the whole routine anyway. Ugh - tonight was rough. She napped 1 hr 1st nap, 30 min. 2nd nap, and stayed UP for over 6 hours. I could not get her to nap again as hard as I tried. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183455 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:01:08 +0000 dojo 1183455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I get home from work between 5:30 and 6. DH picks up LO from daycare and gets home between 4:30 and 5. We usually get him to bed between 7 and 7:30. So usually I get about an hour at most with him before getting ready for bed. Totally stinks but we have to be up and out the door by 7am so in order for him to get enough sleep we need to keep an earlier bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183442 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:43:42 +0000 Corduroy 1183442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I get home around 5:45, DH gets home around 6:45 and LO goes to bed 7:15. I am not excited about the end of day light savings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183384 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:09:24 +0000 LemonLong 1183384@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO goes to bed at 5 pm. I pick her up from daycare at 4 pm so it's a rush to get home, feed her dinner, and maybe give her a bath. My SO doesn't get to see her at all before bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183380 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:02:39 +0000 autumnlove 1183380@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6:30 for the baby and 7-7:30 for my toddler. DH misses bedtime a lot. :-( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183365 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:51:27 +0000 Beehive 1183365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO goes to bed at 8, and I get home between 6:30 and 7, and DH usually around 6. So we usually get to spend some fun time with him before he goes to bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183337 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:27:43 +0000 Smurfette 1183337@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get home around 515-530 and bath at 615, bottle 630, and in her crib asleep between 645-700. So maybe an hour together it sucks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183318 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:14:07 +0000 DillonLion 1183318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get home at 630 and LO goes down right around 8. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183285 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:51:11 +0000 mrsjazz 1183285@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our kid's bedtime has been 8:30 p.m. for a while. She gets up at 7 a.m. If she needed to sleep earlier we would put her to bed earlier. She used to be a 10/11 p.m. bed time baby so we were happy that she finally got used to 8:30 p.m.</p> <p>@Foodnerd81: What time does your SO leave for work in the morning? Could they have some time together in the a.m.? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183275 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:46:46 +0000 matador84 1183275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I pick DS up from daycare between 5 and 530 and start bedtime routine around 630, asleep by 7, and wake up at 7am. I hate, hate the fact I get so little time to see him, but what we lack on weekdays, we make up for on the weekends! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183248 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:28:38 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 1183248@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>M goes to bed at 7 and wakes up at 7. Whoever is home puts her to bed and on any given night it may be me or Mr. jacks... Just depends who is working later. Sometimes we're actually bot home. Whenever we try to keep her up til one of us gets home, it always turns into a disaster, so we don't do it anymore! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183233 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:18:40 +0000 GrapeCrush 1183233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS used to go to bed at 9, and DH would get home at 7:30. DH then got a new shift and got home at 6:30. We aren't sure if DS got 'confused', but he moved his bed time up to 8 after that. So he still only gets an hour and a half with DH at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183224 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:13:17 +0000 Foodnerd81 1183224@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaJ: only three months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183118 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:10:23 +0000 MamaJ 1183118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: how old is she again? When DS started napping better, everything was easier. DH gets home around 6 and DS goes to bed around 8. If he wakes up early in the morning I will put him in bed with me and he will go back to sleep. That way his schedule is shifted a bit and he is up on the later side. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183115 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:09:48 +0000 mrs. wagon 1183115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get home at around 5:15pm, dinner at 5:30pm, and LMW goes up for bedtime at 6:00pm! She is seriously sleep deprived on daycare days (they only do one nap, and she needs two) so she has to go to bed early. It's sad, but we get plenty of family time on the weekends. Oh, and she's up at 5:30 so we see plenty of her in the mornings :) (yes, we've tried pushing her bedtime later and earlier and nothing seems to make a difference, and pushing it later makes her wake up even earlier!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183108 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:07:08 +0000 Katrocap 1183108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I carpool and we pick up DS at daycare around 4:45pm. Bedtime is 7pm. He's often cranky when we pick him up because he doesn't nap well at daycare, so we are lucky if we get 2 hours of (happy) awake time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183103 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:06:08 +0000 yoursilverlining 1183103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get home between 5:30-6, I aim to get LO in the tub by 7:15, and she goes to sleep pretty much right at 8. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183098 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:04:14 +0000 immabeetoo 1183098@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: DH fortunately has a job with somewhat flexible hours, so he goes in early and tries to be home by 445. Some days it's unavoidable, and he gets home at 5:15, LO skipped his second nap so dinner is at 5:30 and he was in bed asleep by 6:30. </p> <p>I do try to call and warn him if bedtime is going to be earlier than normal in the hopes he can come home earlier and catch up on work from home when LO is in bed. But that isn't helpful if your SO can't adjust their hours! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183092 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:03:22 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1183092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: oh :( bah, sorry for the assumption! i would not mess with her sleep and just let her sleep at 6:30 if that's what's best for her! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183087 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:00:27 +0000 Foodnerd81 1183087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. High Heels: @LindsayInNY: oh you guys act like she consistently naps. Hahaha. No, she is a horrible napper right now so I'm not will to mess with any sleep I can get- which, btw Dh agrees with. It's just sad for him. </p> <p>Perhaps when she is a better napper we will work it out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183069 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:50:55 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1183069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What time does your LO usually wake up from his last nap of the day?</p> <p>DS is 8 months old, and his bedtime depends on when he wakes up from his last nap of the day. His bedtime is 3-4 hours after his last wake up time. So if he wakes up at 2:30 pm... then I put him to bed at 6:30 pm.</p> <p>We both get home around 5-5:30 pm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183065 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:50:26 +0000 littlecasita1122 1183065@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband was able to shift his work schedule a little so he spends more time in the AM with our LO since he's always awake by 6:30am. They eat breakfast and play for a bit, then he leaves at 8:45pm and is back by 7pm, right before LO goes to bed for 7:15/7:30. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183052 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:46:44 +0000 Andrea 1183052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH is almost always home after the 2 kids are asleep. Such is life! I think their sleep is more important at this young age. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183016 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:32:53 +0000 shinymama 1183016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get home at 6:00 and his bedtime is 8:30.</p> <p>When he was younger we would let him take a short cat nap once we got home so that he wouldn't be fussy later. The nap never affected his night sleep, and he would sleep from 8:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. We did it this way so that we could spend more time with him at night, and so he wouldn't wake up too early in the morning. {I'm solo in the mornings, and this allows me to get ready and get things done around the house before leaving for the day.} </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183004 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:29:50 +0000 hilsy85 1183004@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Leo goes to bed between 7 and 730 now but it used to be around 630. Dh gets home around 6, so he used to only get like 10 min with him at night :( it sucked but baby sleep takes precedence! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1183003 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:28:30 +0000 LindsayInNY 1183003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't have a LO yet so bear with me here... How many naps does she take a day? Is there any way to shift her sleep schedule so she wakes up a little later in the morning? What about a later afternoon nap so she can stay up longer until DH comes home? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bed-time-and-getting-home-from-work-time#post-1182986 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:22:19 +0000 Foodnerd81 1182986@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What time is your LO's bedtime? What time do you and your SO get home from work?</p> <p>I am struggling with this right now- C seems to be wanting to move Her bedtime earlier- it was between 8-9 but lately by 7 she's ready for the wind down. I'm a sahm, but Dh gets home around 7 so it's tough and I know she will probably move it earlier. </p> <p>How do other people handle this? </p>