Well as the title suggests, my LO is 10 months and we are having a nightmare at bedtime with him…
Has anyone ever found that a bath time at bedtime makes their LO hyper when they go to bed? I know all the sleep routines i have read include a bath, but he enjpys it so much and if sleepy before the bath, seems to hype up after and when i put him in the cot.
Also, i don;t understand why at nap times int eh day he goes down for his naps with no or very little fuss and puts himself to sleep, but at night time it can take an hour and a half for him to settle and there is lots of crying etc and then we have to settle him eventually by patting him to get him to fall asleep, when he is finally ready to lie down ans stop thrashing around and moving around in the cot.
Our bedtime routine is this at the moment:
6.30 - Milk
6.45 - Bath, PJ's on…
7.00 - Story, into sleeping bag, Bedtime
I did try and change the milk to after the bath as someone suggested it might make him more sleepy (we never did this from early on as we wanted to break the sleep/eat association!) but he was just as hyper!!!
I just don;t know if this is a developmental phase that he will grow out of or if i could change something to make things easier on all of us. I get very stressed out once ive put him down to bed

as i just can't relax until i know he is nicely asleep.