Comments on: Combined Toddler and Baby Bedtime Routine http://thedadjam.com/baby/combined-toddler-and-baby-bedtime-routine/ Fun, help, advice, tips and stories, all about parenting and being a dad. Wed, 09 May 2012 15:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Head Jammer http://thedadjam.com/baby/combined-toddler-and-baby-bedtime-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-1354 Head Jammer Tue, 24 May 2011 20:02:09 +0000 http://thedadjam.com/?p=730#comment-1354 Hi MommyC, thanks for your comment and sharing your situation. That is a really tough one. When mine were around that age, I usually put the older one to bed while my wife put our baby to bed. I think if you can follow a routine it will help things along. Perhaps you can combine their bath time - give them both a bath at the same time, and that way after the bath you can have them both in their jammies at the same time. Then, while you are feeding the baby and putting baby to sleep, your 2 yr old can watch a video and eat. Then, when the baby is asleep, you can then brush your 2 yr olds' teeth, wash his face, and read a bedtime story. That at least takes away the extra bath, which can be exhausting in itself. Let us know how it goes and all the best to you! Hi MommyC, thanks for your comment and sharing your situation. That is a really tough one. When mine were around that age, I usually put the older one to bed while my wife put our baby to bed. I think if you can follow a routine it will help things along.
Perhaps you can combine their bath time – give them both a bath at the same time, and that way after the bath you can have them both in their jammies at the same time. Then, while you are feeding the baby and putting baby to sleep, your 2 yr old can watch a video and eat.
Then, when the baby is asleep, you can then brush your 2 yr olds’ teeth, wash his face, and read a bedtime story.
That at least takes away the extra bath, which can be exhausting in itself.
Let us know how it goes and all the best to you!

]]> By: MommyC http://thedadjam.com/baby/combined-toddler-and-baby-bedtime-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 MommyC Tue, 24 May 2011 19:03:22 +0000 http://thedadjam.com/?p=730#comment-1353 I have 2 boys, one is 2 years 3months and the other 7 weeks. I am trying to impliment a sleeping routine that works for baby and toddler. 2 year old has a routine (set before baby came along) well to be honest it wasnt set in stone, but it was working. Now with baby, I am trying to get baby sorted before toddlers routine has to start. So that means I start babies bathing at 6pm, baby massage,jammies, fed and "hopefully" asleep by 6:30pm. While I am bust with baby, toddler watches Teletubies and eats,from about 6:30 - 6:45pm toddlers routine starts, bath (6:30pm), brush teeth, massage (quick one because you have to catch him most of the time, and he doesnt sit still!) jammies (7pm), story and "hopefully" asleep by 7:30pm - 8pm. My husband works night shift every 3rd week, so for that week I am alone with the kids, which makes this routine VERY difficult, I try get my mother-in-law over to help or my sister (which by the way was her first night tonight and I think I've scared her off kids for atleast the next 10 years!) but I am not always able to get someone over to help, then its very tricky and extremely tiring. Plus having "other" people help is also a mission abcause they dont know the routine (or in my mother-in-laws case: she just does her own thing) it takes long to get both kiddies down and properly asleep. I am exhausted. And I have to start working again as from next month. I dont know how I am going to do it?\ Any ideas for possibly making my life easier???? I'm desperate!\ (Just a note.... Drugging the kiddies did cross my mind for a split second! Tempting as it is... I would never do that!) I have 2 boys, one is 2 years 3months and the other 7 weeks. I am trying to impliment a sleeping routine that works for baby and toddler. 2 year old has a routine (set before baby came along) well to be honest it wasnt set in stone, but it was working. Now with baby, I am trying to get baby sorted before toddlers routine has to start.
So that means I start babies bathing at 6pm, baby massage,jammies, fed and “hopefully” asleep by 6:30pm. While I am bust with baby, toddler watches Teletubies and eats,from about 6:30 – 6:45pm toddlers routine starts, bath (6:30pm), brush teeth, massage (quick one because you have to catch him most of the time, and he doesnt sit still!) jammies (7pm), story and “hopefully” asleep by 7:30pm – 8pm.
My husband works night shift every 3rd week, so for that week I am alone with the kids, which makes this routine VERY difficult, I try get my mother-in-law over to help or my sister (which by the way was her first night tonight and I think I’ve scared her off kids for atleast the next 10 years!) but I am not always able to get someone over to help, then its very tricky and extremely tiring. Plus having “other” people help is also a mission abcause they dont know the routine (or in my mother-in-laws case: she just does her own thing) it takes long to get both kiddies down and properly asleep.

I am exhausted. And I have to start working again as from next month. I dont know how I am going to do it?\

Any ideas for possibly making my life easier???? I’m desperate!\
(Just a note…. Drugging the kiddies did cross my mind for a split second! Tempting as it is… I would never do that!)

]]> By: Getting Toddler to take a Bath or Shower | Parenting - The Dad Jam http://thedadjam.com/baby/combined-toddler-and-baby-bedtime-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-397 Getting Toddler to take a Bath or Shower | Parenting - The Dad Jam Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:31:07 +0000 http://thedadjam.com/?p=730#comment-397 [...] written a few Jams about toddler bedtime routines and a combined toddler and baby bedtime routine, and both of them include having your toddler take a bath or shower.  What if my toddler refuses [...] [...] written a few Jams about toddler bedtime routines and a combined toddler and baby bedtime routine, and both of them include having your toddler take a bath or shower.  What if my toddler refuses [...]

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