Hi there,

After dinner my boys play for an hour or so, then it's bathtime. After they have a bath, they both get a cup of warm milk.  Little one (2) goes to bed at 730 -8  and the older at (4) 8 - 830.  Depending on how tried they are.  They 2 year old finished=s his milk I give him a cuddle and he's down.  The older has to have his wees, has a cold drink, and a cuddle then off too bed.

They usually self settle, my older one sometimes puts up a nit of a fight, mum I want a drink, mum I want another blanket, mum my teddy is cold.  But I've found that some physical activity during the day helps for them to have a good nights sleep.

In our house, my boys (3 and 1) are told when it is 10 minutes till bedtime.  Then 5 minutes.  I have really found that this wind down and them knowing that it will be bedtime soon is what makes or breaks their going to bed.  Then it's brush teeth, go to the toilet (the 3yo) then 2 books, cuddles then bed.  They both then play by themselves quietly for a little while and just go to sleep.  They share a room and while they do sometimes interact, they very rarely ever keep each other awake.

my children are both different my two year old sleeps with me and can take hours to get to sleep my 1 year old sleeps in a cot. i learnt with my daughter haveing them in bed with you makes a rod for your own back as its hard to change that rutine

From the start and I mean day 1 it was the three B's and L. Bath, Bottle, Bed and Lullaby. Now they are older it is Bath,Bed, Books and Lullaby, alway's the same song,hehe.

They both slept from 7 weeks for 9hrs not including the growth spurts and teeth when every  wee while,  it felt that for a week or two, they would eat or grizzle 24hrs a day. However from about a year old they both settled to a min of 12hrs, heaven.

It was my Mother who set the routine during the first two weeks after Ruth was born,it was her legacy to me, the same one she had for us and the one she was given by her Mum.I wish she had lived long enough to see how well it worked for us.

Between Bath and Bed we alway's,alway's, always have a little quiet chat time about what tomorrow might bring alway's reiterating the sleep factor. I did this after bottle when they were Babies and the holding, cuddle's and soothing chat seemed to relax them down for bed. I stuck to the routine. Ruth is growing out of it now at 8yrs sniff,sniff, but Caty 3yrs still likes her Mummy or Daddy time then a tape to help her drift off. When we are chatting Caty likes me to gently stroke her back between her shoulders. Ruth likes to sit her head on my shoulder as we chat.

We start Caty's routine at about 6.00pm sleep at 7pm and Ruth's, when she wants the interaction, we start the routine at 7pm.

All Bubs are different though and I think it works for us because of the genetic factor, the girls in our family like sleeping heheheheheheh.

Best Wishes. Luv Winnie.xxxx

hey Steff !!    I used to hate getting Myah to sleep, it would always end up in tears and then me nursing her to sleep but nearly 4 weeks now and she will go to sleep herself!!!! We have a set routine and works wonders. She has her dinner (which she never eats) then allowed her sweets, then shower or bath time and brush teeth in the shower, then she is then wound down with a bottle of milk in front of the tv with her silky( snuggle rug) . When she has finished that i go to everyone in the house with her telling her its time for sleeping in her bed and we kiss EVERYONE good night, including the animals!! I place her into bed then but the big thing that is now keeping her laying down and getting herself to sleep is leaving the door open and not being quiet! She loves hearing the family move about and making noise! Weird huh, but it works!!!

hope that helps ya!

na xxxx

Hi there!

For both my girls its bath, milk (bottle for Caitlin and boob for Zara) and bed.

We all eat dinner together, and they get a small amount of time to play before their bath and then its straight into PJs and I will sit and feed Zara and Caitlin will lay on my legs with her bottle and then they go into bed. Zara (6 mo) is usually either already asleep or really milk drunk when I put her down but Caitlin (2) will put her bottle in the sink, give kisses then climbs into bed herself and we tuck her in and give her her piglet to cuddle.

my son is now 18mth and from a very early age about 6weeks (i think) we have done the same routine.  We always do bath, bottle, bed.   He goes to sleep easily on his own with his dummy and teddy.  These things are only for the cot.   Sometimes tho if he his not quite ready for sleep he will talk to himself then throw his teddy and dummy out of the cot and let us know about it.  After giving them back straight to sleep he goes.

B4 he was born we said that there would be no rocking, jiggling or patting etc... and no bringing him in to our bed of a night time to sleep. We have kept to this rule and it has worked well.   Although on the odd occasion I have slept in the spare bed with him.   I must say tho that he has always been a very good sleeper.   I doubt I could handle it if he wasn't LOL

Hey there. At first my son wouldn't sleep in his cot, he would only sleep in his pram. Then I tried putting him in to his cot when he fell asleep, only then realizing that if he woke up where he wasn't put before he would scream and sure enough he did. Then we tried rocking him and even got him a rocking swing, but then quickly realized he would pick up the habit of being rocked before going to sleep which could be annoying for some. So I tried controlled crying. I would put him down, pat him on the back, "shh shh shh" for a few minutes then leave the room. Leave him for a bit, then come back if he was still crying, do the same. On the third time if he was still crying, I'd pick him up, give him a little bit of a cuddle, put him back, do the same, leave etc.

We don't have any problems anymore. We put him in his cot and he goes straight to sleep. We change his bum, give him his bottle, have a little play, then he goes to bed.

Hi there,

With Amy who is 14 months old we give her a bottle while she is lying on either me or her daddy then we put her to bed awake and she falls asleep to some quite music. We don't hear from her until the morning.

With Joshua who is 3 years old, he usually falls asleep while having a cuddle with me while daddy is giving Amy her bottle. If he is still awake when we put Amy to bed then we put him down and some nights he will go straight to sleep but other nights he could get up a few times before he actually falls asleep.

Hope this helps

Juzzy xoxoxoxo

My boy we put him to bed straight after dinner with a bottle of milk or water and let him settle himself. He is 20 months so don't know if this helps. We basically lie him down in his cot give him a bottle and his teddy and say goodnight and let him sleep.