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Our LO goes to bed around 6:30-7:00 but some nights as early as 6:00. We typically don't get home before 5:00 so we don't get a ton of time with him before bed. It is what it is.

We used to put LO down at 6:30 but he woke up at 5am and that made getting my stepdaughter to school rough on him because I couldn't nap him till we got back home. He might miss seeing DH some nights, but my husband's schedule had him home all day at least one day a week so he made up for missing him some nights. Now we do a later evening nap and put him to bed at 8.

eta: now he wakes up at 7 which gives us enough time to take stepdaughter to school and get back home before any meltdowns occur.

My daughter needed an early bedtime (asleep by 6:30) for a while, now it's closer to 7:30 (she's 1). I changed my work schedule to get home earlier, so I would have more time with her. I would start her bedtime routine and DH would race get home by 6/6:30 so he could finish the bedtime routine and put her to sleep.

C naturally does best with a bedtime around 7:30. Dh rarely gets home before 7, often after 7:30, so usually there are a few nights a week at least that he doesn't see her at night. It sucks but is actually better than when he ers there right before bedtime and wants to play instead of putting her down.

We tried keepin her bedtime on the later side but se was waking early either way and melting down at night- no fun. But Dh sees her for a while in the morning before to offset the missed evenings.

My son goes to bed by 8, we see each other on average 3 hours during the week. For a long time, he went to bed at 7. We make up for it on the weekends, but I firmly believe in quality of time over quantity.

LO2 (almost 8 months) goes down around 6:00pm give or take. DH gets home at 6:15 so 4 days out of the week he usually doesn't get to see her. It's a bummer.

My son usually goes to bed around 7:30. It is not at all unusual that my husband doesn't see him on weeknights because he is not home from work yet. It's not awesome but B is not that flexible about bedtime right now. So DH will usually take a MOTN wakeup or make sure to see the baby in the morning. And he spends a ton of time with him when he has the day off.

Both LOs go to bed early, usually around 6, no later than 6:30 pm. We don't get a ton of time after work with them and sometimes DH doesn't see them at all. but i honestly wouldn't change it for anything. Once in a while we get a later night in if we have something to do, but most of the time I protect bedtime like crazy and make the most of the weekends

Not the same type of situation, but my husband is gone out of town 4-5 days a week, so he only gets 2 days a week with our LO. We just make those days my errand/mommy's days out so they can spend most of the day together, and they both love every minute of it and have a ball. Like others said, capitalize on the weekends and enjoy the time at night together!

We have a unique situation in the sense that DH works out of town and doesn't get to see LO every day. This week he is gone until Thursday night. When that happens, we FaceTime every night or in the morning if he is working nights. When he is home, we get back right when school is done and he plays with her and gives her her sippy cups, and feeds her dinner. I usually do baths still. When he is home for his long weekends, we stay home and try to make the most of it. LO doesn't do well when she is tired, so she needs her sleep. She does best with 11 or 12 hours at night, if we can get it.

My husband usually gets home just in time to put LO to bed at 7, but she chose her own early bedtime. She doesn't nap well at daycare so she's pretty ready to pass out by 6:30-7.

Since you are SAH for now, you have a lot more flexibility with bedtimes and naps.

We get home between 6&6:30 -- so we have a later bedtime, in fact, my husband is putting LO down now (8:30)... That way we both get some time.... He also naps from 1-3 usually so that probably helps with the later bedtime.

I love him having an early bedtime. Both DH and I get home at 4:15 and I put LO to bed between 6:45-7:30 so that doesn't leave DH too much time with him on week days but it leaves a lot of alone time for DH and I as a couple which I think is more important for us. It seems like so much more than 2-3 hours each night with LO though, never paid attention to the actual amount! I would really not enjoy a late bedtime for LO

7/730 bedtime

Dh usually misses a couple nights a week due to work schedules and commuting (he travels locally) but he gets extra time in the am and takes days off during the wk to offset it.

Ds has always been a sleeper and loves his routine. We wouldn't change our schedule with him. And they still get lots of QT on the other days and winds!

Xander usually goes to bed around 7:00. But we both get home around 5:30, so we both have time to spend with him. I think our bedtime is based more on what time he needs to get up in the morning than anything else. If we worked later and he didn't have to get up by 7:00 a.m., then we'd probably have a later bedtime for him.

Occasionally Hubs will work late and then he won't see Xander before he goes to bed, but that's not the norm for us.