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I work out of the home and leave work at 5 on the button (used to work much later) - it's get LO from daycare, play with him for 20 minutes and start bedtime routine. He goes to bed at 7. I toyed with an earlier bedtime but ultimately knew that I could never keep up with it when I went back to work, so 7 it is. He started this bedtime around 4 months and he's almost 6 months.

I used to work until 6 (or later) every day; now I leave right at 5. We play with LO for a while, then she gets a bath, PJs and a bottle. It’s very rare that she falls asleep before 8:30pm; but she sleeps through the night and isn’t fussy at all, so I know she is getting enough sleep. She will NOT sleep at 6:30 or 7 like some babies.

I'm a SAHM, but my LO still has bath time at 8 and is in bed around 8:20. She's 15 months.

@Revel: i'm a lawyer too and I dropped to 75% time - have an extra day at home and can leave at 5 "guilt free" though I still do feel guilty. You'll get a sense of what your baby needs. For awhile my LO took longer naps and could sustain a later bedtime of like 9. Then around 4 months his naps shortened and he just could not stay up as late. Since my husband works later hours too, I would love a later bedtime but baby dictates otherwise!

@Revel: I 100% agree that it depends on the child, I have a friend who's baby goes to sleep super early but she's a SAHM so it isn't an issue for her. The healthy sleep habits, happy child book recommends a 7:30/8pm bed time so that's what our goal was when we started his routine before I went back to work.

I'm worried about this too! I go back to work in two weeks, and I don't get home until 6:30 pm.
DS is only 12 weeks, but he doesn't go to bed until 8:30-9 pm right now and is up at 6:30 am, which will be perfect if he is able to keep it up. I know people say babies need more sleep than that, but he seems to do just fine with that amount of sleep.

I worked it out with my boss that I leave work at 4pm every day. I know that may not work for you but they were very lenient about it. I work 7:30 to 4 with a half hour lunch. I get the baby, we get home by 5 and have dinner by 5:30. We do her bedtime routine starting at 6:10/6:15 and she is asleep by 7. Since she gets up so early, we have to get her down by 7 or she won't get enough sleep. We wake her up at 6:20 every morning.

That's another thing to consider - wakeup time. Will you be able to let your lo sleep in until 7 or later? Then they may have a later bedtime!

Our bedtime is not until around 9.30pm We get home around 6, I pump, change her, feed her and hold her while she naps for abour 2 hours. Then I play with her a little, feed her give her a bath around 8.30, feed her again and put her to bed.

My daughter is 15 months old and her bedtime is 5:30pm. I am able to pick her up by 4:30pm...She plays, eats dinner, has a bath, and then goes to bed. It's a little weird for most people that she goes to sleep so early but she loves her sleep and needs 12 hours of it - we all get up at 5:30am.

I work about 8:15-4:15, pick LO up around 5, and home at 5:30. DH gets home about 6:30. We don't really have a bedtime routine, just put her in PJs around 7, and nurse her for the last time around 7:30. She is in bed by 8 and sleeps until 7. She's 4.5 months old right now.