Sleep Baby Sleep
Just after Hadley's first birthday I realized that a bedtime routine was needed.
Before then, we were letting her stay up until she got tired.This was usually around 11pm. (Way too late for me!) I was getting nothing done, and was exhausted.
Since her birthday we decided that routine was the way to get her used to an earlier bedtime.
So with the same things happening around the same time every night including me taking her up to bed at roughly the same time each night (sometime between 8 and 8:30 depending the night) we have now gotten to the point where she actually goes to sleep at this time.
You see, when we first started this, I sat in her room with her for roughly two hours rocking, humming, feeding, whatever it took to not entertain, but relax her.
Now tonight, I am proud to say she went to sleep in 10 minutes! Hooray!
Of course things change every day so we have to work with life, but having Hadley in bed this much earlier allows me to get some of my own things accomplished. Even if it is just the laundry!