When did you start giving your LO a snack before bed? Right now DD has dinner, bath, milk, brush teeth, story, bed. Wondering what an appropriate age to introduce a small snack is?
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Why do you feel like you need to introduce one? I've never heard of doing a snack before bed...
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I've never heard of this. We've never done any food after dinner.
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Never? He gets dinner and that's it! Water before bed if he wants it.
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We have never done snacks before bed. She can take water to bed, but that's it.
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I remember having "dessert" as a kid. IF we give our almost 2 year old an after dinner snack, it is literally after dinner. Like before we leave the table.
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I have always given cereal/snack before bed so that (in theory) she won't wake up hungry. Started around 5 months lol
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@hilsy85: @Weagle: @scg00387: @Pancakes: huh. I thought it was fairly common. So did you guys give milk before bed when they were little (sorry, I don't know how old your kiddos are)? If so, when did you stop?
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@NurseMommy: She can drink as much as she wants whenever she wants. Milk or water. Usually she chooses milk since she drinks it at meals and she already has that cup available until bedtime. Since potty training, we've stopped letting her drink anything after bath. So, our evenings are dinner and play (she can drink whatever during this time) and then bath, family devotional, and bed (no drinks during this). She's 26 months.
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@NurseMommy: I haven't given snacks before bed yet either. After dinner, she gets a sippy cup with milk. Sometimes she finishes it, sometimes she doesn't. I guess once she requests one later on, I will probably give her cheese and crackers or fruits.
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I'd say once bedtime is not right after dinner. Then I'd give a small snack.
Here bedtime is right after dinner so no need for a snack. Growing up we always had a snack before bed.
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This thread reminded me of my nephew. He was staying with us earlier this month for a week and it drove me crazy that he NEEDED a snack before bed. What the...he's 13 years old, but I guess my parents (who are raising him) have gotten him and his sister into a routine that includes a snack before bed. He's been getting a snack before bed since he moved in with them (at 5 years old, his sister was 2). My dad works at a juvenile detention facility and they are also required to provide a snack before bed. The nutritionist strongly suggests it as part of the meal plan and they have to provide them with something. Usually it's fruit or cookies and milk. Sometimes a small serving of cereal.
We give LO (19 months old) a small snack if she asks. Usually a piece of fruit or string cheese, with a glass of water. I can't even remember when she started, maybe 17 months? I want to say right after we weaned her...she used to nurse to sleep so I'm sure we created the habit of eating before bed.
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I've never heard of eating A snack before bed. We eat dinner and then about an hour do bath, teeth brushing, and then the bedtime routine. If she's still hungry after dinner, I give her fruit or crackers or cereal, but that's only if she asks.
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we eat dinner within an hour, two at the most of her going to bed. so no snack before bed. she's 18 months.
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We have dinner two hours before bedtime, and by the time we're done eating, playing, bath time and jammies, there's no time for a snack. I've never heard of having a snack before bed for kids... Occasionally mama has a glass of wine, though
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I would just give it to her if she asks but don't make a habit of it.
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We do dinner bath and bed, so no snack.
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We don't do a snack either since bedtime is right after dinner and bath. My 18 month old still drinks some milk, though. My 4 year old just has water, if she asks for it.
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@NurseMommy: he's 21 months and gets dinner (with milk and water) around 630, bath at 730. No food after dinner but if he didn't finish milk he can have that until bathtime.
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No snack before bed. Not even milk since we do bath, brush teeth, bed.
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@NurseMommy: I've never heard of a kid having a bedtime snack! Maybe it's a regional thing. We eat around 6 and he goes to bed around 7:30 or 8 and typically sleeps until 8. He doesn't get anything to eat or drink but water after dinner and is 19 months. He used to nurse before bed but wasn't getting much at all after 14m and then turned me down Around 16m.
It was a weird adjustment from when he was young and I fed him as close to bed as possible so we got more sleep! But often he's not even hungry for breakfast until 9 or so.
I would think a bedtime snack would discourage good eating at dinner?
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@NurseMommy: We only have snack before bed sometimes. If N does get snack it usually fruit. He is 21 months.
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No snack before bed (never heard of it!). Dinner is 6/630 and he can have milk or water with dinner. Bath around 7, Jammie's brush teeth, books and bed (he can have water right before bed). Lights out by 745/8. He's 26 months and it's been this routine for a long time - since we ditched the bed time bottle. We used to offer a sippy of milk after bath but he never really drank it. If he told me he was hungry I would let him have a small snack before bed but I wouldn't make a habit of it. At this age, hunger has very little to do with sleep!
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@NurseMommy: I just started a snack before bed last night! She ate dinner a little early (like 4 something) and we were out and about so I gave her milk and snack at 7 or 8 and then more milk right before bed (at maybe 8 something. ..) She slept in an hour and a half longer...
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If D wants a snack, it has to be within an hour of finishing dinner and he has to have eaten his dinner well. He doesn't get anything besides water before bed. They make him stay awake too long when he's trying to get to sleep.
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Ah that makes sense, we eat dinner usually 2-3hrs before her bedtime so it made sense to me to give her cereal before bed lol. Although she nurses to sleep so that could probably count as smack before bed too
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No bedtime snacks here, either. My son will be two at the end of the month. We eat dinner somewhat late...6:30/7pm. Sometimes we will feed our son an earlier dinner around 5/5:30, depending on his daily schedule. But either way, we've never done a bedtime snack. Sometimes we'll have a little dessert after dinner...a little ice cream or a popsicle in the summertime, but other than that, dinner holds him over until the morning. (Bedtime is 8pm).
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If e doesn't eat well at dinner, I offer her a snack before bed. Usually nut butter on a spoon. Sometimes she eats great and sometimes not. Dinner is at 530, bed is at 645. She's almost 16 months. We don't really do a lot of milk because is so filling
I don't go more than 4 hours without food so I actually have a slice of Ezekiel bread and PB before bed. Not that weird to me, unless you eat a huge meal. My dinners are small, though
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