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Giving my children a nice warm bath, a cup of chocolate milk, and a nice hair brushing to get all the bath tangles out also i let them watch their shows during all this (after the bath)
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We have a bath, PJ’s, bottle/cuddle, read a book then off to bed with the lullaby CD playing. Works like a charm!

Every night we do a bath, massage, bottle, book and cuddle then off to dreamland.

After bath, warm milk and story, my daughter and I cuddle and give each either butterfly kisses.

Don’t have one yet, as the little gaffer is still sleeping inside my tummy!!

We change into jammies, brush teeth and hair, read books and then into bed.

For us, its a bath full of bubbles, jammies & sleep sack, teeth & hair brushing, Daddy reads a story while Mommy gets the bottle warmed up - then lots of kisses & lights out.

our bed time routine involves bath, story, milk and then ‘rudolph the red nose reindeer’ - this is a year round fav in our household.!

Our bedtime routine starts with a bath. The we read a story, say goodnight to all the friends in our room and a nurse. Last thing in a big squeeze with our lovey in the crib.

We have two bedtime rituals around here - one simple and one not so simple… For our youngest - the ritual is to nurse and then get sung a mommy-made lullabye. It works really well for her and she falls right off to sleep.

For our oldest - he picks books (or we pick and tell him “not to read these books” and he get super excited to read them), we say prayers, sing his special song and turn on his CD player with lullabyes he has listened to since birth. Of course, he is 3 going on 13 so you have to inject a couple snacks, requests for drinks and potty breaks too.

I give DD a bath if she needs one, change into jammies, brush teeth, read two stories of her choosing, say prayers, take a sip of water, she hops into her side-carred crib, I turn off the light and lay down next to her for awhile. Pretty much goes like that every night

We are still working on routines for the very little one, but it always involves snuggles! I am sure it would only feel snuggly-er with honeydumplings

Bath time, P.J’s, snuggle up with their blankey and bear and settle down for a great story. Then comes the abundance of kisses, hugs, ‘night, night’, ’sleep tight’, ’sweet dreams’, ‘love you’ and any other stall tactics that they can think of……Ha!!

We’ve mastered the routine with the 1st and the 2nd managed to fit right in!
Bath - Teeth - PJ’s - Book (or 2 or 3) - Snuggle
My oldest LOVES pillows in bed, this looks like a great addition.

At night I give my son a warm bath, put on his pj’s and curl up in our cushy rocker and read his favorite book (Where the wild Things Are) then it’s down with a teddy lovey.

For Bedtime, we have bath, read a book, last pottytunity, nurse, lie down to sleep, he snuggles up with his blankie and fav stuff lovey, and he goes to sleep!

My daughter JUST moved to her toddler bed last night! We kept her routine the same - bath, cream, diaper, pjs, brush teeth and hair, books, lights out, time to cuddle for prayers and a bedtime song. Then she pushes the button on her noise machine and I sing another song as I put her in bed.
The first night was a success - she stayed in bed! We’ll see WHEN she realizes she could come out of her room if she wanted.

Warm bath, followed by 3 bedtime books and then we lay down together and say how much we love each other. My 3 year old tells me every single night that I’m her best friend in the whole wide world. That’s my favourite part of our bedtime routine.

Our son recently trasitioned into a “big boy” bed and loves it! My husband and I take turns putting him to bed each night. First he brushes his teeth and we read a couple of books together. Then he takes a bubble bath and we cuddle and sing together while he’s drying off, his current favorite is the ABC song. Then he gets on his jammies, gets his binkie and bunny blanket and we look out his bedroom window at airplanes (this is his favorite part)! After we’ve seen a couple of airplanes, we say good night to everything outside (airplanes, trees, rocks, grass, birds, kitties) and we tuck him into his bed, turn on his music box and kiss good night.

We snuggle in a rocking chair and I tell her stories involving funny animal sounds. Once she’s done giggling, I rock her until she’s fast asleep!

A bath, with books after and tuck her in with her 3 soothers ( a must! ) and 3 stuffed animals of her choice : )

Sometimes we take a bath, but we always go potty now that he’s 2, we wash up, put on fresh jammies, and then snuggle up with a few books. We sing a few songs as a family and then it’s off to bed, lights out, perhaps some music on. His little brother is much easier: a nighttime nurse, a few snuggles, and then he will fall asleep once he’s in his crib, no matter what else is going on!

We clean up the toys, brush teeth and change into pj’s. we then read four little books and then clean up the bedroom toys that were brought out during storytime! then nursing with twinkle, twinkle little star being hummed and then to bed.

I have twins, so after the usual bedtime bath/massage routine, we used to swaddle them & then snuggle them into their crib together. I think they kept each other warm & they didn’t get lonely! They were amazing sleepers! Now they are 2 1/2 & they still sleep beside each other. It’s very cute.

Our bedtime routine consists of a bedtime snack and a glass of milk (otherwise our 3 year old will claim he is starving as a delay tactic in going to bed) we then change into jammies and read 3 stories in mom and dads bed. He then brushes his teeth and he gets one more story and then we race to see who gets to his bed first. We have a bed time prayer and our three year old always prays that God will bless Santa (smile) and then it is lights out.

We have a snack and brush teeth then put on pyjamas and let the kids each pick a book. Then we all read together and tuck them in.

always a bath, followed by many stories and a parent to fall asleep with.

My little guy is still being rocked to sleep, but one of our favorite bed time things is singing the ‘poopoo and peepee machine’ song. It is so ridiculous but he loves it! My favorite part about putting him down once he has fallen asleep is putting him on his wonderful sheerling, he’s comfortable and I dont have to worry about any chemicals harming him.

We start with brushing teeth and then PJ’s. We then cuddle and rock with a bottle while I tell the same story every night. It’s the cutest story called “Are you ready for bed?” about a bunny who isn’t ready to sleep yet. Before I know it my son is snoring and then into the crib he goes.

First we start with a bath or shower followed by teeth brushing. After a change in to PJs that DS gets to select we read 2 books then he gets to choose a few songs… then lights out, a few sips of water, the to sleep he goes.

Our 15-month old twin girls know it’s bedtime when we announce “time to go upstairs”. They (not-so-willingly) leave the playroom and make their way up the stairs to their room. The first thing they do as soon as they walk into the nursery is go directly to the bookshelf and pull every book off the shelf until they find the one they are looking for. We then put them in their cribs so they can flip through the books while Mommy & Daddy get the bath and the bottles ready. We like to bath them separately so that they each get some one-on-one time with Mommy & Daddy. While one is having a bath, the other gets to to have a story read to them. Once they are both ready for bed it’s time to say “night-night”. We take them around the room and say “night-night” to almost everything in the nursery. Then we say “night-night” to each other and exchange hugs and kisses. Finally, they get to spend some quiet cuddle time with either Mommy or Daddy (we make it a point to switch every night) until it’s time to lay down in their cribs with their pillows, blankies, gloworms, and of course, “suckies”. Sleep tight little ones.

Bedtime at my house starts with my three kids putting on their PJ’s and brushing their teeth. A little cuddle time with dad follows, a quick bathroom break, hugs and kisses all around and always “Don’t let the bed bugs bite.” Last but not least is mom’s orders for breakfast.

We just do pajamas, bottle, and then off to bed with lullaby’s playing on CD player.

With our 2 month old, we have a nice warm bath, then a fresh diaper, and rub Johnstons lavender lotion on her arms, legs and belly. Then daddy gives her a bottle of expressed milk (their bonding time) and she snuggles on his chest until she is almost asleep, then off to her crib.

Our family’s bedtime routine is fairly simple, but it works - we change our 17 month old’s diaper, put her in jammies, and then read at least one book to her. If it’s my husband putting her to bed it’s almost always 3 or 4 books. Then she gets to turn off the light and call for the other parent, who always pretends not to hear at first, and then comes rushing up to give hugs and kisses. She then lies down with her favorite blanket and usually doesn’t ever make a fuss!

It started with my son who would not leave our bed. Once we finally got him into his bed we maped out a bed time routine as outlined in “The No Cry Sleep Soloution” Well some of it still sticks like bath, teeth and books, but my favorite park is the part he added. When he is ready to go to sleep he rolls away from me and say “Rescue me mama” I put my arm around him and he is asleep in moments. It just melted my heart the first time I heard it, still does!

Lisa

Bedtimes are sometimes baths, always books, a song and a cuddle.

Well….I feel very lucky. I have two children and a very family oriented husband. I put my daughter to sleep because I am still nursing her so her routine is bath, booby, (prayers) bed! My husband puts our 2 year old son to bed. His routine is bath, a story from Thomas (the BIG book as he calls it!), a few other little stories, lights out and white noise machine on, talk about the solar system (hanging above his bed), talk about the different oceans, and then talk about how lucky Mommy and Daddy are to have the most special boy in the whole wide world. Daddy gets up to leave and they blow kisses to each other out the door! Dear daughter will most likely have a similar routine soon too! Thanks!

Bath, moisturizer, finish the last bottle in the dark quiet nursery. I do the bath part, the rest is usually done by my husband.

Our bedtime routine is short, simple and sweet. Nico has so much fun in the bath, he uses all the energy he had left after running around and exploring the world all day. After he takes his bottle, a lullaby in his room is all it takes to send him to dreamland for the night, and he sleeps for a good 10-11 hours.

Our routine always consists of everyone lining up like a train and “chugga chugga choo chooin” throughout the house on our way to the bedroom where the children are tucked in and read a bedtime story (after they’ve brushed their teeth, an absolute must).

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