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Article Mum Reveals Baby’s Bedtime Is Midnight And Everyone Loses Their Minds

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Let’s face it, most of us count down the hours minutes until the kids go to bed. By the end of the day, we’re all frazzled and in desperate need of switching off. So why would anyone want to keep their baby up until midnight?

Before we all start clicking our tongues and clutching our pearls, we need to hear why a mum-of-two has decided that midnight is the perfect bedtime for her seven-month-old. Victoria Yavnyi has shared on her TikTok account that her baby daughter, named Grey, hits the hay at midnight, and she’s ‘never understood why parents would put their babies to bed at 7pm’.

“That just means when they have had their full 12 hours of sleep, they would wake up at 7am,” she explains. “And us being stay at home parents, this isn’t very necessary. As long as the baby has their needed amount of sleep, the time you put them to bed doesn’t matter. So this is a man made thing. She sleeps from 12am – 1pm, and that’s what works for our family.”

The video, which has been viewed more than a million times, has attracted both supportive and judgemental comments. “My baby sleeps at 12am too! It’s so much more convenient for many reasons,” writes hierkatie.

“What about when she starts school? You got it coming,” added laurellsims5. “It’s called circadian rhythm,” said another commenter. “It is biological, not man made.”

“So basically you’ve decided to give the baby the sleep cycle of an unhealthy teen so you don’t have to parent for the first six hours of the day,” commented duckpancakes1.

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The huge interest in her post, prompted Victoria to answer some of the most common questions, including when does she have time with her husband? “All night long,” she replies. “I usually fall asleep around 3am/4am.”

The 24 year-old also refuted claims that she’s setting her baby’s circadian rhythm now for the rest of her life. “Bedtime is a social construct,” Victoria says, “And ‘circadian rhythm’ only exists because of society. You don’t need to put your kids to bed at 8pm to be successful.”

Victoria also explains that she has an older daughter who is in grade three, so she does get up in the morning to help her get ready for school. And she says her school-aged daughter had the same sleep pattern when she was younger, and didn’t take long to adjust to getting up early for school.

In a series of TikToks Victoria shows her baby’s day, including having her first bottle at midday, and breakfast at 1pm. It’s followed by milk at 5pm and 8pm before dinner and another bottle at 11.30pm.

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Would you put your baby to bed at midnight? Let us know in the comments below.

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  • Not a healthy rhythm for our body. The pineal gland or epiphysis synthesizes and secretes melatonin, a structurally simple hormone that communicates information about environmental lighting to various parts of the body. Ultimately, melatonin has the ability to entrain biological rhythms.
    We know that work that alters natural sleep-wake cycles shortens or lifespam and impacts circadian rhythms, interfering with your body’s physiological rhythms.

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  • Each to their own I say

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  • This resonates with me SO MUCH! My kids bedtime is between 10-11pm and they wake up at 10am. I’m a stay at home mum and kids arent school aged. If i did the usual 7-7am routine that most parents do, my kids would never bond or spend time with their father who, by the time drives home from work in peak hour, would be about 6:30-7pm. It works for us. And i will adjust once she is school aged.

    • same as me , when kids start school they adjust as my son once he started school he would sleep by about 10-11pm and be up by 8am but before school most nights he was still awake at 2am due to him having autism and not wanting to sleep

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  • 12pm is pretty good. Mine goes to sleep after 1.30! Sometimes even 3!!! By that time I’m dead lol.
    No matter how hard I try with the rocking, singing, white noise etc. she still doesn’t sleep until it suits her.
    I’m on mat leave at the moment so it’s okay for now but I’ll be a walking zombie when I have to go back to work next year!

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  • Oh to be young and not need sleep! If she goes to bed at 3-4am and is up getting her daughter ready for school at 7ish in the morning? I’d love to know how they transitioned her older child into a proper routine when school came around.
    My kids are in bed between 7-7:30pm, with the youngest going down after the older two. We are usually in bed by 9:30-10pm most nights but are completely exhausted by 8pm!

    • i did it with my son once he started school and it wasn’t a big problem

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  • Why judge? If it works for their family then, good for them! Just gotta do what works for you, your baby and the family.

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  • Sounds OK in theory, but no way could I sit up til midnight and sleep til after lunch. Even harder when baby number 2 comes along

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  • Each to their own. I couldn’t do it but we all need to do what works for us, it’s no one else’s business.

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  • If it works for her I’m not going to criticise it, but I do think she’s wrong about the circadian rhythm thing and may be setting her daughter up for problems.

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  • I don’t know how she can sustain it?! Going to bed at 3 or 4 am every night & having one at school. I’d be exhausted! And what about being involved in her older daughters school life? Some of best advantages of being a SAHM is having the chance to attend all the school events, sports days, excursions & helping out with school plays/concerts. She is missing out on some wonderful experiences. Not to mention, what happens with the older child’s sleep pattern on the weekends or is she just left to fend for herself while the rest of the family sleep the morning away??

    • i dare say the older one would go to sleep later on friday-sat nights and wake up later when her family does ..

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  • Wow, I’d be worried it’s going to stuff up her internal body clock.

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  • Just wondering how they go out as family during the morning if need be….well probably they don’t. 🙁

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  • It is difficult to understand but I say whatever works for them! They will have difficulties down the track though.

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  • I’m a stay at home mum and I struggle to make it to midnight myself, I personally wouldn’t do it as bubs would be so used to it, it would take forever to change that routine to prepare for school

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