Ah, the MIL strikes again! Its your child, and you make the rules. You're doing a great job, regardless of what she says.

I'd say it depends on your schedule. My daughter's bedtime has and will most likely always be at 9-10pm. Her father doesn't see her in the mornings and he gets home from work until after 5pm, so she enjoys getting as much quality time as she can. She sleeps until 8:30-9:30am. I'm a stay at home mom and there's no reason for her to be up so early in the morning. I let her make her own schedule and that is the one she chose- I just try to stick to it as much as I possibly can.

There's no need to throw out her routine. It will only cause more problems for you all.

Talk to your husband and ask him to deal with her before you decide to. :o)

mine goes to sleep around 7:30pm ( he is 18 months now) but used to go to sleep at 7pm and sleep until 7 am with naps during the day. It just depends on the family and schedule. I'm out of the house with him around 8:30am to go to the gym so earlier waking time works better for us. You need to look at how much sleep they are getting total for the 24 hrs ( including day time naps) it should be around 12 - 15 hrs ( mine at 7 months sleep 15 hr total ) now he sleeps about 13 hrs total.

My DD is now 10 months but she has always been in bed by 7pm. 7.30pm latest but thats because her father goes to bed at 8.30pm and if I didnt put her to bed by 7pm I wouldnt get any time with my partner. He rises early and so does my DD, at around 6am so it works well for us. My MIL is the opposite, she keeps saying how I should put my DD to bed later but parents need time out and time together also... So what ever works for your family

My DD goes to bed between 10-11 and sleeps until we have to wake her in the morning between 6:30-7 am. She is up until 9ish and sleeps until 11ish. Then she'll take a nap around 2ish and again at 7ish. I've tried cutting the nap out at 7ish and if I do that then she goes down between 9-10 and then is up at 11 and awake until 12-1a.m. So we decided to just let her take that evening nap. She has been on this schedule since she was around 5 weeks old. On the weekends she'll go to bed between 10-11 and she'll sleep in until 8. I wonder sometimes if she is getting enough sleep. She always happy and hardly ever cries so I just figure that she doing well and she'll let me know if she needs more sleep.

She sleeps 13 hours at night, what more does your MIL want?! My daughter goes to sleep somewhere between 7:15-8pm, and usually sleeps until 6:30-7am. She's 11 months now, and has been on this schedule since about 3 months. This schedule is half based on her needs (she's tired by 7pm every day) and half based on ours (it gives us time to get stuff done and spend a few minutes together before we go to bed between 9-10pm.). I have never let her sleep as long as she wants in the morning, unless she is sick, because she does much better when she's on a schedule. So we wake her up some mornings, and others she's ready to get up. She tends to take about 2-3 hours worth of naps during the day, so on an average day she's getting 12-15 hours of sleep. I know it's more about cumulative sleep this young, anyway. Your daughter is getting plenty, as long as she's napping during the day as well.

On top of what she sleeps at night she sleeps from around noon until two and then from five until six....occasionally she skips the nap at five and sleeps until three in her afternoon nap. I'm trying to discourage the night nap and get her to take one in the morning...it just aint happening!