https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:39:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023819 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:34:56 +0000 lawbee11 2023819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I changed my schedule around to come in earlier so that I can leave earlier. If your DH can't get your LO til 6 or 7 maybe ask that your MIL feed LO dinner before he gets there so that he can start bedtime routine as soon as they get home? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023818 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:34:24 +0000 MrsH 2023818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We feed her, she gets to chill/play, gets a bath and then bedtime. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023816 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:32:48 +0000 Charm54 2023816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Daycare days are easy - I'm lucky I'm able to pick her up around 3:30/4 and we go right home to play, make supper, bath and in bed by 7.</p> <p>My mom takes her one day a week though and those days are trickier. I take advantage of grandma care by staying later at work - usually 5:30. I then go pick her up, my mom has dinner ready for us and insists we stay. On those nights we eat at my moms, rush home, skip bath and put her right to bed - usually by 8. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023811 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:29:25 +0000 BadgerMom 2023811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't. But I don't have to be at work until 9, so LO sleeps from 8pm to 7/8am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023809 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:28:28 +0000 psw27 2023809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I leave work, get LO and get home around 5:45-6 p.m. He goes to bed at 7 so we really just eat, hang out, play and take a bath for an hour before bed. I can't push it any later because he is really ready to go to bed at 7 and gets cranky if we make him late. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023804 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:26:36 +0000 looch 2023804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: so our situation is that my husband and I drop off our son at my mother's house at 6:30 am. We pick him up sometime after 4, but on the nights when I have my long commute (1.5 hours) we all eat dinner at my parent's house, then we all head home. Last night was my long commute night, we were home by 6:30 which was early for that night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023798 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:24:39 +0000 blackbird 2023798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>As long as you don't have to be at work at 7am, it shouldn't be a problem! You can just have a later schedule overall, right? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023796 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:24:06 +0000 Mamasig 2023796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't. I did adjust my work hours a bit so I could get home by 5. DS1 goes to bed between 9 and 10. I try for earlier but it doesn't work most of the time. He has low sleep needs. DS2 is down between 7:30 and 8:30 usually. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023790 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:21:24 +0000 Bluebonnet 2023790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Meridian: I WAH now, but when I was a WOHM, I left the office no later than 5pm, which put me home at 5:15 (I would work after bedtime if needed). At that time my husband worked at home, so he'd pick up LO at 5pm and would also be home by 5:15. We'd immediately do dinner, play, bath, and bed by 6:30 or 7pm. </p> <p>LO has high sleep needs and slept 12 hours a night as an infant. She would be a fussy mess if she wasn't in bed by 7pm, so we did what we had to do to make that happen. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023788 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:20:22 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 2023788@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have stuff ready pre-made for their dinner on late nights. It's not unusual for all of us to get home until between 6-7... so quick and ready made dinner is key! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023782 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:15:53 +0000 jetsa 2023782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@raspberries: you should be ok, because lo will be able to sleep in. We have to leave the house by 6:45ish </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023778 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:14:24 +0000 jetsa 2023778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We intended to have a late bedtime but our son is ready by 7/7:30 and we just make do. Normally one of us is home by 6 to do the dinner and bedtime routines. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023777 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:13:16 +0000 Cherrybee 2023777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, I leave work early (4pm but I have an hour long commute) Tues and Weds and DH leaves a little early Thurs and Fri so we have E home by 5.30pm. She's a crap-napper so needs a super early bedtime - 6pm until very recently. We would get her home, give her some milk and get her into bed. It meant we had no time with her but to be fair she was so tired and grumpy we didn't mind that!</p> <p>FYI - daycare does dinner. We give her a bit of porridge for supper but that's a new thing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023776 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:12:15 +0000 Madison43 2023776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use in home child care, but she doesn't put LO to bed, so I think my experience is still relevant. Basically, I had to reduce my in office hours in order to get home in time to spend some time with LO, give her dinner and put her to bed. On the occasions that I need to work late, my husband leaves his office early. Neither of us were winning employee of the year this year, but it is what it is. :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023774 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:11:15 +0000 wheres_c 2023774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah we don't either. I pick LO up at 5, dinner at 5:30 and on a good day he's in bed by 8:30 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023773 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:11:07 +0000 rachiecakes 2023773@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: just curious - does your daycare/preschool do dinner? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023768 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:09:45 +0000 raspberries 2023768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Following - my standard work hours are 9-6, and I don't usually get home until 6:45 or so, so something's gotta give when this LO comes along. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023765 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:09:21 +0000 looch 2023765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do, but the way I manage that is to leave the office at 4. Some days I am home by 5 others, not until 6:30-7 so we literally go straight into the bathroom to begin the bath.</p> <p>The problem is the morning wakeup, my son gets up really early, so I feel as though I have to get him in bed early otherwise it's just not enough sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023760 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:07:28 +0000 rachiecakes 2023760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't. </p> <p>J is a night owl so it probably would be hard just based on his personality. But it would be impossible.<br /> As it is, I pick him up by 5, get home by 5:30, make dinner, finish by 6:30/7, give him a bath, read some books, get the lunches together for the next day, clothes for the next day, etc.<br /> On a good night he's in bed by 8:30/9, but more often than not it's later. </p> <p>And my DH works nights so my evenings are solo-parenting through the school year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-woth-how-do-you-do-early-bedtimes#post-2023747 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:59:08 +0000 Meridian 2023747@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm self employed, and slowly easing back into work starting this week about 2 days a week for the next month or two, and eventually 3 days a week in a few months. The majority of the time, LO will be with my MIL at her home which is about 15 mins away. I will often have 1 - 2 nights a week where I have client meetings, work events, and other work-related stuff. I'm a wedding planner, so a lot of my clients need to have meetings after regular work hours. </p> <p>So on those days, if DH isn't able to pick up LO until 6 or 7, that's pretty much bedtime. (And I know MIL will insist that they stay for dinner, which would stretch it to 8PM before they could leave). How do those of you who work outside the home and send your LO(s) to outside childcare manage to do an early-ish bedtime? Is it even possible? </p>