Daylight Saving?Ideas?

[Wookie1]

Just wondering how others are dealing with daylight savings with their bubs?

What do you do or don't do?

How have you found it effects your bubs??

Ideas and thoughts welcome!

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[Bunnyhugs]

I don't remember daylight savings bothering DS :confused:

[em1984]

I'm actually looking forward to it....darker mornings so hopefully noah will sleep longer, well according to the actual time he will be anyway. I think the hardest will be their bedtime at night and slowly bringing that forward, but I dont think it will be too hard...

[TripleTime]

Im looking forward to it as well. Means the kids will be going to bed as its getting dark.

[Wookie1]

anyone? :)

[Hollywood]

DS has dropped day naps most days, so it's easy to just feed him to sleep at whatever time I choose (yes, he's nearly 3 and I still BF him to sleep! :D), he's always exhausted by evening.

[Nomsie]

I'm looking forward to it. It means it will be easier to have family meals in the evening (atm boys eat about 5:30, so it will change to 6:30 and DP and I can just adjust), their bedtime will change to around 7:30 (no big deal)

and they may even sleep in til 7am! Or, if they continue waking at their usual time, 6am starts sound a lot better than 5am starts! :)

[Beckybug]

My Mum made a blind out of special block out material she bought from a fabric shop for my sister. She was born 5 weeks prem. The blind made it almost totally dark.

[Areca]

It's never been an issue for us. Just put them to bed at normal time and within a couple of days they have adjusted without me having to do anything drastic.
I'm looking forward to it...my almost 4 year old is a walking zombie because her room is so light in the morning she's awake really early. Had to re-introduce naps for her which is easier said than done but I'm hoping that I myself can sleep past 5.10am and my kids can sleep past 6am (they don't usually wake up until 7am).

[MumNeedsCoffee]

I haven't experienced having to adjust a baby to daylight savings yet...

Although my sister who has two boys, 7 and 2, said that she would adjust the boys bedtime to be 15 mins later each day, so they were gradually introduced to the new times.

[lizzymcfizzy]

might be a bit late to mention now but:

from a baby whisperer website - if bubs is on a routine adjust it by 15 minutes the first day, then gradually adjust it by an extra 15 on top of that over the next few days.

That worked for me when bubs was little. Now she is 2 it doesn't really make much difference except she is sleeping 'later', her 6am is now 7am wohoo!

[FionaV]

It's never been an issue. I just put them to bed at the normal time.

[TripleTime]

We didnt have a problem, MIL did have the kids though.

[Boobycino]

I took to day light savings like ripping off a bandaid.

I continued to go by the clock for Jaspers routine, allowed for him to go down a little bit later on Sunday morning for his nap but as of Sunday night it was 7pm bedtime as usual.

I dont think he's noticed.

He's also worked out to wake up at 6am 'day light savings time' so, he's pretty clever... I was hoping MAYBE he'd continue to sleep till 7 and I'd get the luxury of a 12 hour sleep period (not a solid sleep by any means though!)

I just think you could spend a lot of time and energy fussing around gradually adjusting their routine and I dont know that bub would even noticed. I guess because his sleep que (sp) is very clear - dinner, bath, bottle, book, bed. And once he'd gone down at his normal sleep time he seemed to reset himself for day light savings time.

How'd everyone else go?

[~Temet Nosce~]

DD's bed time is usually 7pm, but that day she woke up at 6am so by 6pm she was dead on her feet and ready for bed (has recently dropped day sleeps too) so it worked out well, she just went to bed at 6 which was actually 7 iykwim.. and she woke up at 7am the next morning.

But basically all I used to do, was put her to bed half an hour early or so at the start of daylight savings, and keep her up an extra hour at the end of it.

[HollyHotLips]

no daylight savings for us this year unfortunately :(

last year we just did it over a couple of nights, put DD to bed half an hour earlier the first two nights then usual time after that and she got used to it straight away, no problems. We have always had blackout blind/curtains as well which I would draw before she went in the bedroom so she didnt know it was still light outside, and now the mornings are light so early they're a god send as they stop her waking up at silly o'clock and she still wakes about 8.30/9 :thumbsup: