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I take Miss A up to her room at around 1930 each night and we usually spend 15-20 minutes nursing and snuggling on her big bed. A then climbs into her own cot and spends another 10-45 minutes chatting to her "babies" before going to sleep (she's still awake after almost an hour tonight!). Some nights I tuck her in when she gets in to bed, others I go back once she's asleep.

Most nights she sleeps through till DH gets up to get ready for work at 0600ish, occasionally she sleeps longer, occasionally she wakes in the early hours of the morning and I then nurse and cosleep with her. Some mornings she wakes happy, others she's a crabby mess

Chloe will 3 in two weeks, and bedtime is a two hour long battle of what pajamas to wear, how much iPad time she can have and whose bed she can sleep in.

Bedtime makes me want to crawl Into a hole and hide.

@Mrs. Jump Rope: this was us a few weeks ago but we put our foot down and started giving consequences. It actually worked.

So now we do a short bedtime routine (bathroom, book, story, prayers, song) and then we leave. That's usually it and she goes to sleep.

Very occasionally do we still have a MOtN wake up. Sometimes she just needs covered up, and sometimes she's scared from something.

Usually she's asleep until at least 6.

My dd is 25 months and her sleep has looked like your ideal since 11.5 months when we sleep trained. Bedtime routine consists of 3 books and a song while rocking in the glider. I lay her down, cover her up, and say I love you. She falls asleep within 10 minutes usually. Sleep training really changed our lives.

@Charm54: this is my son. It's amazing and I never want to lose it.

M is 11.5 months. Goes down at 7 after bath, book, bottle. Typically rolls to his belly and is out until 5:30-6:30am. On the weekends he drinks his morning bottle and goes back to sleep until 7:30-8:30. This is 6 out of 7 nights. When he wakes he talks until we get him at 6:30. However he goes to daycare full time and he rarely naps there. He goes all day without a nap or at most takes a 20 minute nap on the car ride home.

Important to add that he's on a structured schedule and he thrives in it. Mess with his day, he messes with your sleep.

After all of C's early sleep troubles, she actually is a good night sleeper now. Usually we do our short bedtime routine- 1-2 books, song, lay down in crib- then she rolls around for a few minutes and fall asleep. Usually this is a little before 8 pm, and she sleeps through until somewhere between 6 and 7 am. She's doesn't really chatter quietly in the morning, though, more like whine increasingly loudly until we come get her.

Our struggle is more with naps, which we really need since she only sleeps ten hours at night fairly frequently.

My son was the worst sleeper until he turned 1. After that, for about 2 months one of us would have to sit in his room until he fell asleep. After that, there was maybe another month where he would "sing" up to an hour before falling asleep. After that passed, we could put him to bed, leave and he would sleep 11-12 hours through.

Goes to bed pretty easily, sometimes she talks to herself a bit, but rarely any fussing. But she is an early riser. Usually right around 6, and a terrible napper, so she is often overtired. She gets about 11 hours overnight, but is happiest on days where she gets 12. Usually naps about 75 minutes, but is happiest on days where she gets at least 120. So those would be my ideals!

LO is 2 1/2 and her sleep has been consistent with your ideal since she was 5ish months. Now it's a 30 min routine with brushing teeth and 3 books. She is usually asleep from 8 and wakes for the day around 6.

R is 27 months and her sleep has been your ideal for most of her life. She goes down between 7 and 7:30 (7:30 if we have had a battle of the wills on her finally going to the bathroom) and sleeps until 7/8. She also takes a two hour nap. Recently she has had the occasional MOTN wake up because she has to pee. Her new thing is to stall about going #2, hence why bedtime is sometimes 7:30. We now account for that and start the routine around 6:30 or earlier if it is a bath night.

S is 5 months and goes to bed by 6:50/7 and wakes around 7/7:30. He gets up 1 to 2 times a night. His routine generally starts at 6:30 and includes massage, nurse, and story. I put him down and he may chat/whine for a couple of minutes and roll around but goes to sleep easily.

We did what @T.H.O.U.: did after we got tired of negotiating, etc. It's shower (not baths here!), book, a song (only for my youngest), and then straight to sleep. Usually not a peep after that unless my oldest has to pee, sometimes an hour later.

@T.H.O.U.: OMG, the covering up buuuugged me for a very long time. My oldest would wake up in the middle of the night to JUST ask me to "fix his blanket." If you count him needing to wake me up to pee in the MOTN, asking to be covered up in the MOTN, and then my old dog waking me to go pee (she sleeps in her crate), I felt like I had a newborn again! SO glad I cut it down to waking twice a night. I know, still feels like I have a newborn sometimes. LOL!

Yes, mostly.

I will say it was a long time coming. We didn't get to the point of putting him in bed and him falling asleep on his own until we sleep trained, and that was at 6 months old but we had to remain consistent to not go back to nursing/bottle feeding to sleep, and rocking to sleep.

There are also an awful lot of sleep regressions. They're not all miserable, some are just that he wakes up one or two times at night and won't go back to sleep unless I go in there to soothe and rock him in my arms.

But in general his routine is bath, pajamas, books, tucking in his toys, turning off the light and turning the noise on, then two songs and then we lay him down and he usually goes to sleep right away.
He goes to bed between 7-8pm and will wake up between 7-7:30am

@Mrs. Jump Rope: we started with no TV the next day. We only had to follow through and enforce it one night and she got the picture. We explained the consequence very calmly, took a late bath, and put her straight in bed. We also reward and praise good bed times a lot. We also talk a lot about the bedtime routine so she knows exactly what to expect.

I wish we had put our foot down sooner!

70% of the time provided we're home and he's in bed by 7: Your ideal BUT we are up by 5-5:30.
30% of the time who the hell knows multiple wakeups & won't put himself back to sleep. If we go out of town this is a guarantee for a day or two

@loveisstrange: ugh. I wish!! Even when she's great it's only about 10 hrs overnight.

Yes, consistent with the exception of some wake ups from LO 2 when her molars were coming in.

2 year old - never. He has always fought sleep. We'll see with 4 month old!

@Espion: yes! LO is exactly the same way! Our daytime naps are also erratic!

LO is 28 months old and bedtime and sleep are smooth sailing. Routine starts at 7:30- bath, teeth, potty, pajamas, prayers, rock for 5 min then she crawls in bed. She wakes up around 7:30. This morning we were all sleepy and the whole slept until 9:30!!! We had a couple if months of bad sleep from 24-26 months, but it finally got back on track.

Life is good in our house now

I don't have a toddler, D is 10m, but he does have your ideal sleep. He goes to bed around 8, we do a bedtime routine of bath, pjs, book and song. Sometimes we rock to sleep, sometimes we put him in the crib awake. He generally falls asleep within a few minutes and sleeps through the night until 7-8am. In the morning he wakes up happy unless I take too long to get him.

He sleeps like this every night, with very rare exceptions. I hope it continues into toddler-hood....