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Yeah but we have a 30 min plus routine and lately protests when we leave the room. He's in bed at 8, asleep by 830 (cries a little and plays a little) and is up at 630 or 7. He has always slept 10/10.5 hrs straight with random blips (sick or molars)since 9 months. He's 28 months.

we mostly have that, except the putting him to bed part. i spend up to an hour in his room putting him to bed. It is quite exhausting and i dream of shortening it to 30 minutes. and this is not counting the time we have with the lights on and read books. i start counting from when i turn the lights off. an average night is 45 minutes of me just holding him, talking/singing to him, nursing, trying to put him in the crib, then he has a fit when i try to leave so we do it all over again. and then he finally gets so sleepy he lets me leave the room or i have to let him cry for a minute or two (which i hate, but i know if i stay in his room, he will go to sleep too late and be overtired the next day). THEN he will sleep through the night and wake up pretty happy around 630am.

He is almost 23 months.

eta. he does have MOTN wake ups sometimes, but not often. either due to what we think was a nightmare, or he is sick etc. and we have to put him back to bed which can take up to 30 minutes again or longer. luckily that doesn't happen too often.

This is consistently us EXCEPT the wakeup time. LO only needs around 10 hrs of sleep so generally goes 7pm-5am and then is up for the day It's horrible.

We have the ideal here (thankfully!) Put her to bed at 8pm after bath, brush teeth, books. I put her in bed, say goodnight etc, she rolls over until she's comfortable and then don't hear a peep from her until 6.30am-8ish. She's 24 months and been like this since about 7 months

As a baby, she needed to be held, rocked, bounced, and nursed to sleep. It was driving me crazy. At about 5 months we sleep trained and she has been a great sleeper ever since. Granted, I think some kids are just naturally good sleepers and I got blessed with one.

This is our routine now at 28 months. Bath around 7:30. PJ's, brush teeth, and say good night to everyone. Around 8:00 read stories, cuddle, and talk. Put in crib around 8:30. Most nights she'll roll around, talk, sing for a while and is usually asleep by 9:00. She sleeps through until about 7:00, when she wakes and is perfectly happy playing in her bed til we come get her (sometimes we've even slept in til 8:30 because she's so happy just being in her bed).

When we move into our new house in 2 weeks we'll transition her to a toddler bed, so that whole routine may go to sh*t., though!

It's 50/50 whether there's a motn waking. Otherwise, they go down fine with maybe a single cry or two when we walk out but are asleep within 5 mins. Wake-up time in the morning varies but within 5 mins of being awake, they let us know, ha. As for sttn, sometimes yes (7:15 pm to anywhere from 5:00-6:30am), sometimes up between 3-4 am for a bottle of milk. It's not ideal but it's SO much better than what it was a few months ago, so I'm rolling with it. Mine are 16 months.

Yes, consistently. LO is 14 months and has been STTN since 12.5 months when I night-weaned. In bed and asleep by 7pm and sleeps through until around 7:30.

@BandDmommy: See, this is why I fear the toddler bed! LO's sleep is glorious, but we are expecting #2 in April, so realistically we need to work towards a move probably by Feb/March at the latest.

To answer the question, sleep has been pretty great since sleep training at 3 months, aside from setbacks with teething/illness.

My lo STTN after we sleep trained at 7 mos. She is 22 months and sleeps 8p-7:30a.

Nope! Not yet, anyways.

It was like this until the last few months DD is 22 months and now she has 8 teeth coming in and they have been taking their very sweet time. It has completely screwed her sleep up. It was 7pm-7am consistently with no wake ups. Now she goes down between 7:30-9 and wakes between 6:45-8am but there might be 1-4 wake ups at night. And at least one of those wakeups require picking her up and rocking her for a bit.

@meredithNYC: he was climbing out of crib so it was inevitable. He loves his bed though. It hasn't been nearly as bad as I thought. Naps have been fabulous though. He naps for 3 hours consistently.

Lo is 14 months. She must be teething or possessed because bedtime makes me want to die.

LO just turned 2, and he has consistent sleep. We'll take him up around 8pm to start his bedtime routine of bath and reading. He's in his crib by 9pm and will either fall right to sleep or will arrange his animals and fall asleep shortly afterwards. He sleeps consistently until 8am.

There are times when he's teething that he will wake up in the middle of the night and I'll have to get up to sooth him a bit, but for the most part, it's 9pm-8am.

@Cherrybee: How is your girl's sleep lately? Is she fighting bed time?

Yes, this is us except that she is an early riser in the morning. The past few days she has woken up after 6am (around 6:20), and it's been downright heavenly. If you have a kid who sleeps 12 horus per night, you are lucky.

My lo is 28 months and goes to bed at 8/ 8:30, we just tell her to go hop in bed and unless she is really sick she goes right to bed, sometimes she sits there and talks to her sister for a bit but usually just goes to sleep. She always stays in bed until around 6/6:30 unless something/someone wakes her up.

I voted yes, mostly. We sleep trained at 5 months after 6 weeks of sleep hell and since then DS has been a pretty great sleeper. At 16 mo he is sleeping 7pm - 7am. Usually doesn't wake up at all but if he does its usually due to teething. So we give motrin, rock him and put him back to bed without much resistance.

Yes, consistently. DS has always been a good sleeper. His bedtime is 7:30 (at 20 months), and he sleeps until anywhere between 7-8am. He almost always wakes up happy/talking/playing.

Yes , DD is 27 months. She has bath, lotion, pjs and books and then we put her in the crib with white noise and say goodnight. She goes down at 8.30 and wakes up anywhere between 6 and 7.30.

She used to wake up at 5am all the time, but seems to be better now thank goodness but she has always gone right to sleep usually talking and singing to herself and she has always STTN.

Naps on the other hand have become a total nightmare lately.