Upcoming Time change freaking me out!!

I literally said outloud “YOU AND ME BOTH!” when I read the title of your post! I am DREADING it! It was awful for us last year. Sarah went from waking at 7 to waking at 6am. I swear it’s taken a whole year just to get her to sleep in until 6:30 and now we’re back to square one! I am TERRIFIED that 6:00-6:45 is going to now be 5:00-5:45. UGH! I have been trying to push back her bedtime a little bit each night. I don’t know that it will make much difference but I’m trying to do SOMETHING. I guess I figure if we can get her to stay up a little later, then she’ll sleep in a little later…but she’s never followed along with that pattern. I swear the EARLIER she goes to bed the better and LONGER she’ll sleep in the morning. Nothing but sympathy and dread here! I hope it goes well for you guys!!!

Yikes! I never thought about it that way. I’ve actually been having the opposite problem. We usually do our time change the first weekend of October, but this year they decided to coordinate with the US, and we’re still waiting. It’s SO pitch black outside here at 7am, that it’s impossible to get the kids out of bed! I can’t wait for the time change so it will be lighter in the morning at wakeup time. I didn’t really think that if they usually wake at 7, now the clock will say 6. I actually have found that it’s only the first couple of days that this actually happens. Then their routines form around the new time schedule and the wakeups change with them. On the plus side, you can fool them for the first few days and put them down to bed an hour earlier!

I am in the same boat!

I don’t know what I’ll do about the time change? give him a bottle? I rather doubt that will work

hellbennt2007-10-16 19:05:42