https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:46:12 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1533311 Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:54:53 +0000 Elderberrygin 1533311@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We read a bathbook at bath time and read whenever she picks a book up during the day. We had to cut reading out of her bedtime routine because it just riled her up. She wants to eat books and throw them around and gets cranky at bedtime when we try to read to her.</p> <p>ETA: She's 13 months old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1533291 Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:30:35 +0000 stargal 1533291@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lo #1 I think around 6 weeks old is when we started.</p> <p>Lo#2 in the womb ;) BC I'm reading to D's and baby sibling gets to hear!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1531062 Sat, 29 Mar 2014 01:06:33 +0000 shellio 1531062@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We actually brought books to the hospital with us, and read them to LO, and I swear he acted more interested in the same page every time so we knew that was his favorite :) Reading has been part of our bedtime routine since day one. And he has always loved it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1531052 Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:38:21 +0000 lamariniere 1531052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our actual nighttime routine with bedtime stories for our son started around 9 months. Now that our DD is here, she has been sitting in on DS's story time since she was conceived :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1531019 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:27:58 +0000 luckypenny 1531019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It became part of our nighttime "routine" at around 14 months when we took away her bottle. Before that, books mostly excited her and I was too tired. She was read to plenty during the day. Now it's the only way she can "wind down" from her activities enough to sleep </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530986 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:38:49 +0000 daniellemybelle 1530986@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started at the very beginning but did not keep up with it. Lately we have been reading books while the bath runs (she is 5 months old) but we are not consistent. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530945 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:48:41 +0000 BeachMama 1530945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She was super colicky and would in no way sit still long enough for a story for the first 5 months. We were constantly rocking and bouncing. So I'm guessing we started maybe around 6 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530913 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:23:29 +0000 Grace 1530913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started regularily at 3 months as part of the bedtime routine. At the beginning I had to read really fast to get through it before she got antsy. Then she would mainly try to eat the books. Now, at 6 months, she seems to be looking at the pictures and she grins at the stories she recognizes. We read The Going to Bed Book, Hungry Hungry Caterpiller, Brown Bear Brown Bear, It's Time for Bed and Goodnight Moon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530898 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:11:54 +0000 LovelyPlum 1530898@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know what our bedtime routine will look like yet, but we read to LO while still in my belly all the time :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530895 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:06:16 +0000 dolphin 1530895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Consistently 3 months, part of bedtime routine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530816 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 20:11:58 +0000 californiadreams 1530816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 5-6 months it became part of the bedtime routine </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530789 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:52:29 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1530789@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember taking a picture the first time we read a book at bedtime, he was 4 weeks old! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530775 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:46:30 +0000 NavyRN2012 1530775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started consistently at 12 months. She needed something to help her wind down before bed, so now we put her in her sleep sack, give her milk in a sippy and her lovey, and read 2-3 books. We also read to her throughout the day as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530573 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:45:43 +0000 Running Elley 1530573@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We read all the time and DS has always absolutely loved books. I started reading to him as a newborn and we've been going strong ever since.</p> <p>However, we didn't start reading at bedtime until he was 14 months old. Until then the last part of his bedtime routine had been a bottle. We weaned from the bedtime bottle by replacing it with 3 books. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530571 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:43:44 +0000 LittleFox 1530571@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>From the time we got home from the hospital, both at bedtime and at several other points throughout the day. We also just leave them within his reach, so he can flip through them as he likes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530536 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:25:20 +0000 Woolly Mammoth 1530536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO has loved books since he was a few weeks old, but we don't read them right before bed unless it's clear that he isn't ready to sleep yet. He gets really excited about books, so they don't really help to get him relaxed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530528 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:22:07 +0000 googly-eyes 1530528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lo loves books and it isn't a part our bedtime routine. I know she would just say "again!" and we may never sleep! :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530486 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:56:32 +0000 lemondrop 1530486@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started at around a year, he just would not sit still for even the shortest board book until then and it wasn't worth a war before bed to us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530466 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:44:43 +0000 Smurfette 1530466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We tried starting around 2-3 months but it was 10 months before she regularly would sit still and be interested. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530423 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:24:46 +0000 PurplePeony 1530423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Right now, we read at other times. Eventually, I'll add a book into her bedtime routine, but right now (almost 4 months old) she goes from playing happily to needing bed NOW in about 3.6 seconds. The second she shows tired signals, I'd better be whipping out the sleepsack and the boob...forcing her to sit through a book would be cruel. I'm sure this will evolve as she gets a little older, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530186 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:04:38 +0000 cmomma17 1530186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe 6 or 7 months? I added books to a bedtime routine. Made it a really consistent thing and never looked back! We just read one (sometimes two) short board book. Some nights I let LO pick which one he wants and it is so cute! :) He's 11 months now.<br /> We started with The Going to Bed Book, then added Pajama Time, On the Night You Were Born, and Goodnight Moon.<br /> I need to add a few more to the rotation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530178 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:02:08 +0000 Mrs. Blue 1530178@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Can I answer for when we started TRYING to read bed time stories?!?!? My boys just refuse to sit for books still, and they're a year old! They have started liking to look at them on their own, but they do not have even a tiny bit of interest in being read to. We keep trying, and I know one day it will click. It's so sad to me that they haven't got into books yet because reading to them is one of the things I most looked forward to doing as a mom. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530165 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:59:21 +0000 MrsF 1530165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>M is obsessed with books and asks to be read to all day long. We didn't start a bedtime book routine until she dropped her pre-bed bottle. Now there's no way she would let us forget her two books before bed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530164 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:59:14 +0000 heartonastring 1530164@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ever since we started a regular bedtime routine at around six weeks. </p> <p>She's 11 months now and the kid's obsessed with books. We read four books before bed every night and countless books all day long. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530150 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:56:45 +0000 bisous 1530150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6 months for bedtime stories when she moved to her bedroom. Before that we read often but it wasn't part of the bedtime routine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530148 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:56:00 +0000 mediagirl 1530148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 3 months we set a consistent routine and since then we have been doing the same thing:<br /> Sit down in the glider, nurse (when we were doing that), read three books, sing three songs and into bed. I love it. :) We also read throughout the day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530098 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:41:40 +0000 blackbird 1530098@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think when she was around 9 months, she was interested. I think it's only been 1-2 months. I always wanted to read to her, but until she was interested, it was just one of those things we never got around to doing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530073 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:33:07 +0000 septca 1530073@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started reading to my belly, but DD wasn't actually interested in listening to books until about a month ago (she is 14 mo). Now she will bring me a book and climb into my lap to read. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530063 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:30:44 +0000 fancyfunction 1530063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started reading to her from the day we brought her home. I wanted to make reading part of our routine. We do it everyday and now at 15 mo she's a bit more squirmy but she'll usually sit and listen to a story. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-reading-bedtime-stories-to-baby#post-1530057 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:28:43 +0000 rattles 1530057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've always read to DD. We even had a high-contrast picture book for newborns! That said, we didn't make stories part of her bedtime routine until just after a year when we changed things up to a more toddler routine (brushing teeth and reading books instead of nursing and rocking). </p>