Sentences with phrase «for hours before bed»

And I didn't worry about waking him to eat because he was nursing like crazy for hours before bed and gaining tons of weight.

I try to stop doing stuff by 11 pm so that I can read or watch TV for an hour before bed.

I used to read for an hour before bed, now I listen to audio books.

While I could tell you to avoid all of those things for an hour before bed, that's crazy to me since you could use that hour very effectively.

Not exact matches

We've been sleeping more than usual (I actually went to bed with Matthew at 7 pm earlier this week, waking only long enough to scarf down a tiny bowl of pasta for dinner before drifting off to la - la - land again), eating our collective weight in local ice cream, and touring small, nearby towns in the afternoons before heading back to the cottage for happy hour snack time.

At the time, I was coming home from work to an always empty house, laying on the floor for an hour to re-calibrate from my day, working myself into a 30 minute or so run, and then reading a couple food blogs over dinner (usually a sweet potato, roasted during that run, with black beans, salsa, and a pile of greens), working another couple hours just to survive the next school day, and falling into bed into a deep and dreamless sleep before my alarm clock wrenched me out and up and into another day that was much the same.

Just give it a larger feeding and turn the temperature down to 80F or so before putting it to bed for an 8 - hour night.

Now this fresh bircher muesli recipe can be made as little as an hour ahead of time, but we like to throw it in the fridge before bed and it's ready for a yummy breakfast in the morning.

All you do is make your coffee as you like it (cream, milk, sugar, almond milk, etc) and stick it in the fridge for an hour or so (you could do this before bed too in order to have it ready when you wake up).

When I can't sleep or need some help winding down after a rough day, I like to make a big pot of potent ginger tea with fresh ginger that a can sip on for an hour or two before bed.

Menu highlights also include Hot Catfish, fried and covered with hot spice and chili oil and served on a bed of collard greens with tartar sauce; Grilled Shrimp & Grits, served with charred scallion - jalapeño butter and fresh scallions; Smoked Pulled Pork, smoked for 17 hours before being pulled, seasoned and coated with BBQ sauce; and Bacon N Biscuits, smoked and braised in onion and celery, chilled, cut thick and grilled three times, then served with buttermilk biscuits, grilled onions and pimento relish.

Sometimes the things that are hardest are the most intimate — a first - grader's secret fear of going on the sports overnight because he still wets his bed, a freshman just looking at himself in the gym mirror that first day of high school wrestling tryouts, or years later lying awake and breathing in for hours before rolling out of bed to get on a flight to Helmand province.

The fact is, my child screams for 30 minutes before bed if I hold her and rock her to sleep (ending in tears for both of us after three false starts, 1 hour of night time sleep, and me going to bed at 8 pm for the 2nd MONTH in a row) or if she's SAFE, WARM, HAPPY, WELL FED (from the breast, I might add) and surrounded by the company of her favorite little animals in her crib.

If there's ever a time for constancy and harmony, it's the half hour before bed.

Dedicate yourself an hour of «quiet time» before bed — especially quiet for your eyes.

Turn off electronic devices at least one hour before bed Electronic devices such as video game systems, I - Pads, and televisions can be stimulating, making it harder for children to wind down at bedtime.

You can, of course, restrict your child's liquid intake somewhat for a couple of hours before he goes to bed, and encourage him to use the toilet before he brushes his teeth.

The study by Durham University found that mothers who shared their bed with their babies for at least an hour a week were more likely to continue breastfeeding past six months but mothers who go to their baby's cot to breastfeed are more likely to give up before six months.

I think there might be a causal relationship both ways with sleep and depression in teenagers (speaking as a qualified software engineer)-- and one of the first things the psychiatrist had us / the teenager do was make sure that he had good sleep habits (e.g. your bed is only for sleeping, go to bed at a decent hour, watch out for caffeine in the hours before bedtime, regular stuff).

If you want your children to... MORE fall asleep faster and sleep better, you'll need to enforce a strict «no electronics» policy for at least one hour before bed.

We woke up with wet mornings because although he no longer nurses and sleeps right through his full 12 hours, he has his milk before bed and that's it for the night.

Then our midwife tended to me and Callum, and finally packed us all to bed for a couple of hours before my family visited.

In the hours before bed, prime your child's mood with upbeat, nonviolent stories or movies (even seemingly low - key books and movies may be too much for a child going through an extra fearful period).

Then I could even go to bed alone for an hour before my husband would bring her to me for the night.

Three my daughter now four months old goes to bed at 7 in our bed I put her In her crib before I go to sleep for the night at ten she gets up to eat at three am now personally at three in the morningiI would rather go back to sleep for a few more hours taking her to bed and letting her eat lets me do that and she goes back to sleep.

Putting her to sleep in my bed involved feeding her to sleep for about 2 hours before I could try and slip away.

For a 6 - 7 month old baby, a 4 hour interval before bed is WAY too long.

It was well past his first birthday before he would sleep for more than a few hours at a time, and even that was only while he was docked at my boob and sleeping in my bed.

We cut up fresh apples into little chunks and added it the rice cooker one (but that only cooked for about an hour) I wonder if it'd be okay to add the apples before bed or wait until morning?

«Whether that's a warm bath, a bedtime story, singing a song, getting changed into pajamas, or cuddles in bed, following the same steps every night and sticking to it can help immensely when winding down a toddler for bed,» she says, adding that she also works to include a bit of physical activity about an hour before starting a bedtime routine «to get the last of their energy out.»

What's scary about that is that I put it on before Emily went to bed at night and she sleeps for 12 straight hours.

I'm not sure if she's getting too much waketime before that first nap... I usually go walking with her in the morning and often she'll fall asleep in the stroller and when I get home I'll put her in bed, but I've also tried nixing the walk and scheduling just an hour or so of waketime so she won't be as sleepy going down for a nap and she still rises early.

I spent many months lying in bed with a blanket over my head, reading fanfiction on my smartphone for hours before my husband came to bed.

I still to this day co-sleep for at least a few hours before bed, or in the morning.

The bottles then stay sterile for a full 24 hours as long as the lid remains closed — so you could turn it on before bed, and have clean bottles at the ready in the morning.

Instead, I'd lie in bed for a few hours feeling panicked about still being awake hour after hour before dozing off around my usual time.

We still have difficutly sometimes after a month and some nights I am up feeding every hour and still wonder if maybe formula before bed would be better for both of us.

He usually sleeps between 8 - 12 hours at night before needing a feeding (ie: goes to bed at seven and he will either wake up at 3 am for a feed or just sleep until 7 am.

The easiest methods for promoting more restful sleep for everyone include not having too many fluids before bed, keeping the room temperature at or below 68F, not sleeping with too much clothing or blankets on, giving a before - bed massage, and no screen time within two hours of bedtime.

We discussed the importance of not allowing her baby to go longer than 8 - 10 hours at night without nursing, and gave her ideas of how to manage that by waking her baby for one last nursing before mom went to bed for the night.

My partner is a Guardian reporter and he's rarely home before 9 pm during the week so we share the same bed for about three hours a night, and we don't fall asleep or wake up together.

«These potentially modifiable adverse events of esophagectomy may be mitigated by proper counseling of patients to avoid meals for two - three hours before bedtime and sleeping with the head of the bed elevated,» advised Dr. Stiles.

And in a two - week trial at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, published in 2014, volunteers who read on an iPad for four hours before bed reported feeling less sleepy, took an average of 10 minutes longer to fall asleep and slept less deeply compared with those who read paper books at night.

• Use the hour before bed for quiet time.

HOW: Avoid caffeine for four to six hours before bed (some new research indicates that the best time for coffee is between 2 pm and 5 pm, when its effect on our circadian rhythms is basically neutral).

Eating big and heavy before bed will result in body fat gains, but snacking on the right type of food about an hour before you go to sleep brings good news for your muscles.

Leave a few hours for winding down before you go to bed.

The protocol for weight loss is to stop eating at least 3 hours prior to bedtime, and then consume at least 1 tablespoon of gelatin powder right before bed.

Dine at least four hours before bed for better digestion and to lower your chance of heartburn.

Many people take these medications before going to bed, but you should be taking them an hour or two before a meal, on an empty stomach, for optimum benefit.