bedtime

Routine ch-ch-ch-changes from Joanna79 ^Pro 47 days old

The house move has had an impact on the girls' routine. In the old house, the bathroom was downstairs and we had R and G's day pretty much nailed. The ...

Pj and duvet (Let’s get ready for bedtime) from Joanna79 ^Pro 74 days old

G has spoken (actually, she started doing her impression of an eel trapped in a handbag every time I tried to wrestle her into her baby sleeping bag) ...

Sixteen month update from Joanna79 ^Pro 216 days old

[ ... ] We’ve moved bedtime to 7pm. G has (touch wood) been sleeping better since she discovered and adopted a small cuddly Pingu as her bedtime companion. ...

Duelling banshees from Joanna79 ^Pro 309 days old

[ ... ] and gave her bedtime bottle. I did the same with R. I walked into the bathroom, shut the door and counted to “Five and twenty” (anyone who watched ...

A day in the life of G, age 1 year and 3 weeks from Joanna79 ^Pro 317 days old

[ ... ] 6.35pm – bedtime. Mummy or Daddy zips me up in my lovely snuggly grobag and they both kiss me goodnight. I set my special alarm, which generates ...

Don’t let the Gracie stay up late! from Joanna79 ^Pro 350 days old

For nearly 10 months, the girls have been in a strict bedtime routine. Once they go upstairs to bed, they don’t go downstairs until the next morning. ...

Bedtime stories and a little girl that wants to emulate a fictional pigeon from Joanna79 ^Pro 354 days old

Being the smug middle-class parents that we are, we read the girls a bedtime story every night. Dh and I consider ourselves to be fairly competent at ...

Surviving a sleepover from Joanna79 ^Pro 383 days old

[ ... ] settle at bedtime? What if they screamed in the night? I imagined every nightmare scenario beforehand. I needn’t have worried. We replicated ...

From their point of view… from Joanna79 ^Pro 479 days old

I’ve been trying to analyse why the girls are so fed-up at bedtime at the moment. Their routine has been stable for ages. They are clearly tired. They ...