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CurlyQ
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
We do with both my 3 month and 3 year old. Their bedtime is 9/930 so usually we are home in time. Last night we had a special party and didnt get home until 10. Both kids got bathed and were in bed by 1030. They slept until 915 this morning which is the time they wake up every morning. A little less sleep, but not a big deal. We have a later schedule in my house but we like it that way. It works for us.
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jax1
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
She is 3 months and we do. It's not something we do all the time, but she will sleep anywhere at this point and will sleep when everyone is loud and talking. I just bring her rock and play and pjs.
She's not really on a strict schedule right now, but I think it's good we got her used to noises now. She slept during most of her baptism party with 80 people talking loudly and music! LOL
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| Posted 12/18/11 1:49 PM |
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BriBri2u
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
I don't do it often and I much prefer to do it in the warmer months.
If we do go to friends houses after his bedtime, we just bring a pnp and put him to sleep in there until we are ready to leave.
I feel guilty doing this in the cooler months - shocking him with the cold air from transferring him into the car and than out.
So we don't really mess with his bedtime routine in the winter months.
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| Posted 12/19/11 11:46 AM |
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dpli
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
Posted by Shelleybean11
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I guess it depends on the kid - some are able to adjust to how their parent's lives were before they arrived  and some are not!
ITA with this. DS just doesn't adjust well to change. He won't sleep anywhere other than his crib- and believe me we tried! We will push his bedtime a little bit to stay out but he won't go to sleep out.
This was us too. We would do it occasionally and sometimes DS would fall asleep on me, but would fuss in the carrier and only slept in that if he was in a moving car.
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| Posted 12/19/11 12:03 PM |
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EricaAlt
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
Depends, but we usually do it. My toddler is ok as long as he has some stimulation... other kids to play with, toys and/or some TV.
Usually the people's homes we go to have other kids so he's fine.
My baby is 5 months and a pretty good sleeper.
They both go to bed around 7PM. I'll keep the toddler up and let him play and usually bring PJ's for the baby, put him in the carseat with a blanket in the corner and he falls asleep. Easy to transport since he's already in the carseat and then put him in the crib. Sometimes I give him a bottle if he wakes up moving him to a crib then he goes back to sleep
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| Posted 12/19/11 12:11 PM |
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GioiaMia
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
If you don't do it - then you are never going to be able to do it, if that makes sense LOL
From the start we always kept DD out until whenever we wanted to stay out. Not all the time, but we never turned down invitations because of her bedtime AND I am STRICT with it when we are home and it is convenient.
If she is out and occupied she will stay in a good mood for long passed her bedtime. . . and we get to enjoy ourselves too!
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| Posted 12/19/11 12:21 PM |
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labonnevie
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
Posted by Hofstra26
No, I don't. My DD is now 3 and we still make sure she's home in time for bed at 8pm. I personally think it's important to keep her on her routine, she's exhausted by her bedtime and ready to knock out so I feel like it's only fair we be home to get her into bed rather than torture her all night.
Obviously there are times when it's unavoidable, weddings or special parties, but when we make plans with friends we always make sure we're home for her to get to bed on schedule. Honestly, if we don't, she's just a wreck that night and then it makes our lives more difficult.
Edit - I don't feel like I have no life, I feel like I have a different life. We've just had to adjust how we hang out with friends. I may have been able to hang out until all hours before having my DD but life changes and I'm okay with that. I've adjusted my socializing to make it work for us. In actuality, it's pretty easy because all my friends have children and they feel the same way, it makes it get togethers simple since we're all on the same page! 
ITA. DD is 20months old and I can count on one hand how many times she hasn't been in bed by her bedtime. She is a great sleeper and I don't do anything to affect that. If she slept later in the morning to accomodate, I might be more willing, but she doesn't so it's not a thought. And by 7:30 she's so tired, even with her great naps, and it's just not worth it to me to torture my DD.
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| Posted 12/19/11 12:38 PM |
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BBmaking
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
We haven't yet and DD is 6 months old. To avoid bringing her out pass her bedtime, we've been having people come over to hang out.
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| Posted 12/19/11 12:42 PM |
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nycgirl
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
That time period (around 3-4 mos) was a sweet spot.
We'd go out for dinners with baby sleeping in the snap n go.
It ends soon though & going out becomes very different.
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| Posted 12/19/11 1:37 PM |
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Annie91606
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
Posted by labonnevie
Posted by Hofstra26
No, I don't. My DD is now 3 and we still make sure she's home in time for bed at 8pm. I personally think it's important to keep her on her routine, she's exhausted by her bedtime and ready to knock out so I feel like it's only fair we be home to get her into bed rather than torture her all night.
Obviously there are times when it's unavoidable, weddings or special parties, but when we make plans with friends we always make sure we're home for her to get to bed on schedule. Honestly, if we don't, she's just a wreck that night and then it makes our lives more difficult.
Edit - I don't feel like I have no life, I feel like I have a different life. We've just had to adjust how we hang out with friends. I may have been able to hang out until all hours before having my DD but life changes and I'm okay with that. I've adjusted my socializing to make it work for us. In actuality, it's pretty easy because all my friends have children and they feel the same way, it makes it get togethers simple since we're all on the same page!
ITA. DD is 20months old and I can count on one hand how many times she hasn't been in bed by her bedtime. She is a great sleeper and I don't do anything to affect that. If she slept later in the morning to accomodate, I might be more willing, but she doesn't so it's not a thought. And by 7:30 she's so tired, even with her great naps, and it's just not worth it to me to torture my DD.
ITA as well. My sons (ages 3 and 19 mos) are never ones to sleep in if they stay up late. I only keep them out rarely, like for a holiday or special reason like while on vacation. They are both great sleepers and like their sleep. We get a sitter for nights out, and let the kids get their rest at home, in their own rooms where they are comfortable.
I don't mind the lifestyle change at all. I waited until I was 35 to have kids. I had many many years of late nights, doing whatever I wanted.
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| Posted 12/19/11 1:38 PM |
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TheDivineMrsM
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
Posted by jamiemarie12
I really don't like doing it at all. I feel like it messes everything up the next day.
Same here. One of us would go and the other would stay with the baby. Or we'd both stay home. DD's needs come before our social calendar.
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| Posted 12/19/11 2:21 PM |
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Alli06
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
At 4 months, I would for sure go past the bedtime. My DS was 4-5 months during the summer, so we where always taking him out to someones house and letting him sleep in the stroller. He didn't really have a strict schedule at that point and we didn't do it often.
I didn't start keeping him home for his bedtime till about 6-7 months. Then I got really strict.I felt after 7 months, he really couldn't be taken off his schedule, plus he really won't sleep anywhere but his crib.
DS will be 3 in March and he is finally fine to stay up past his bedtime again. I don't do it often, but now when we are at a party, we are able to stay an extra hour or two.
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| Posted 12/19/11 2:25 PM |
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NYchic
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Re: keeping baby up/out past bed time
Posted by skinny
We don't. The boys sleep for 12 hours and I don't want to mess w/ it!
Ditto to this.
My life revolves around DD's sleep schedule still and she's 18 mos. Many don't understand it but it works for us.
On holidays we stay out past her bedtime...I'm not about to leave Christmas with my family for bedtime. I pay for it the next day though. She doesn't sleep well out at someone else's house and never did even as an infant.
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| Posted 12/19/11 2:37 PM |
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