https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:37:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2756072 Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:25:15 +0000 maddyz 2756072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Or bedtime naturally got a little later in the summer, I would try spending time outside when it's still light and moving everything in the evening a bit later.</p> <p>Or whole routine has shifted 45 minutes to an hour later.</p> <p>That being said, sometimes the baby passes out early. Depends on his naps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755906 Fri, 07 Jul 2017 08:47:05 +0000 MrsADS 2755906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, I have a love/hate relationship with my 22mo's early bedtime. He is in bed usually between 6:30 and 7. People who I tell this are like "WHAT?! It's so early!" Yeah. Well, he wakes up at the same time no matter when I put him to bed, and he's a wreck with not enough sleep. It would be nice to be able to stay out later or do something in the evening, spend more time with him after work/daycare, and sleep past 5:45am. On the flip side, it is nice for me and husband to get time to do stuff after bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755812 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:24:09 +0000 Grace 2755812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pretend it's a time change. Shift everything - wakeup, naps, meal times, bedtime by 15 min a day until you get the right time. And if they wake early, treat it as a MOTN wakeup. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755490 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 06:44:35 +0000 KayKay 2755490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd just go for it on the sleep front -- maybe even trying to push the afternoon nap back a bit if you can to help them make it til a later bedtime? Depends on how flexible your kids are with that sort of thing.</p> <p>With my kids, it seems like eating times are more set than sleep times (esp if we are doing something fun that entertains them instead of just sitting around), so you may need to more slowly push back the dinner! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755480 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 06:19:03 +0000 danda 2755480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do you have any summer vacation plans? The one thing that has shifted my kids bedtimes later was being completely out of the normal routine, and it took a few days...but both a Disney trip last fall and a beach trip this summer have pushed bedtimes later, and a few days into it wake up times were later as well. We tried to keep to the later schedule once we got home, and we're now somewhat later than we used to be.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755477 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 05:44:55 +0000 meadow 2755477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lady baltimore: we haven't done special occasions much. We at least aim to be in the car at bedtime so they start sleeping then.</p> <p>@mdf106: they've only had 2 time changes. Last fall 2as about 2 weeks before I returned to work and I needed them to move the routine an hour earlier anyway......so that's a bad huge. Spring wasn't too bad....took maybe a week to align?</p> <p>@sauerkraut: that's good to hear.......maybe I'll try to push them in this direction next week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755435 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 21:11:21 +0000 ALV91711 2755435@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we've changed bed time it's been by half an hour and we always just go to the new bedtime. </p> <p>i wouldn't expect sleep in results the first night but after s few days I would. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755339 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:34:45 +0000 sauerkraut 2755339@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd try a 7:00 bedtime. My LO (12mos) is quite happy waking up between 5:30 and 6:30 with a bedtime around then. We're not on a super tight schedule, but that works for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755261 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 14:44:17 +0000 SweetiePie 2755261@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I also agree that you just won't know what will happen till you try.<br /> My 3yo for a long time had 7/7:30 bedtime, 7am wake up and 1-3/3:30 nap. He just started needing his nap to be pushed back to 1:30/2 which means bedtime is now more like 8pm. He still doesn't sleep past 7 and has actually even been waking a little earlier. 6am some mornings. I know that SOMEDAY he will sleep in and I'll have to drag his butt out of bed :silly: </p> <p>As for how to attempt it, I would see if you can manipulate nap to be a little later to try and get a slightly later bedtime and maybe you'll then be lucky to get a later wake up in the morning. I would do it 15 mins every couple of days and keep adjusting. See how it goes and if it's working, decide how late you want to go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755258 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 14:42:18 +0000 mdf106 2755258@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have found changing bedtime later once doesn't lead to a later sleep time, but if a change it perfectly, after a week or so, they start sleeping an hour later. What happens during time changes? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755246 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 14:32:40 +0000 lady baltimore 2755246@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How do your kids do when you do keep them up later for a special occasion? Do they sleep in at all the next day? That may give you a little clue as to how well they will adapt to a later bedtime/wake time.</p> <p>DD has a late bedtime and sleeps in pretty late, too. We may have to start her in school in the fall, and the earlier bedtime is the part I am dreading most! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755109 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:54:35 +0000 bhbee 2755109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I usually just try cold turkey and accept any fussiness but you could also try moving it 15m a night for a few days. All kids are different with sleep so I think you just have to see how they react! And adjust nap times as needed until the new routine gets where you want it. </p> <p>My 2yo will not sleep in later unless he is sick, no matter what time he goes to bed (he does best with early bedtime). But my 5yo has always been more flexible on sleep, even though she needs more than he does relative to age. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/bedtime-changing-it#post-2755087 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 11:19:55 +0000 meadow 2755087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Morning wake up during the school year was 5am and bedtime around 6:30. (Note - they don't SSTN, but this is when I began nursing them to sleep for the night.)</p> <p>I'd love to push both those back a bit for the summer. In September, we won't need the kids to wakeup until about 5:45 anyway. It would be nice, at least for summer, for their bedtime to be a little later so that we could 1) eat dinner as a family instead of my husband and I cooking and eating after they go to bed. 2) have time as a family since my DH usually gets home as they are 5 minutes from nursing or after they fall asleep.</p> <p>So my question...how the heck do you do that? I've always read kids will sleep later with an earlier bedtime. But I don't want an earlier bedtime :(</p> <p>Help! Thanks!! </p>