Bedtime routine was never important with our first daughter. Yes, we have had tantrums on occasion when she didn’t want to go to bed but on the whole she was generally quite good. Our youngest however has been fighting sleep since birth and in the end it became a bit of a problem. The child would never sleep and it left mum and dad with no evening.
After talking it out with family and friends, we just decided to follow the advise of a fellow photographer and it was such a simple advise… get a bedtime routine and stick to it. So that is what we did, we sat our little girl down and talked her through the routine. We explained why she needed to sleep and how her body needed to rest all in tone and language that a child will understand yet also realising that she understand more then we give her credit for.
So now we do have our little bedtime routine and if I miss one part of it, I will be reminded as our girl will not go to bed without following each step.
Picking her bedtime story is very important and one night I decided to snap a couple of images during our bedtime routine.
