What are you doing for the time change?

[BabyBsMommy]

Just curious how you are going to handle the time change in terms of your toddler's night sleep (or stories on how you handled it in the past for your toddler).  I'm not quite sure how to tackle it - it was easy to move the bedtime last year when DS was 9 months old because he fell asleep differently but now, although we don't get him out of bed until 7:45, he wakes up at different times in the morning and he is in bed for 7:45-8 at night but again sometimes falls asleep right away and others, chatters for over a half hour.  I was going to just start moving the time we start bath at night up by 5 min every 2-3 nights and similarly, leaving him in bed and extra 5 min the next day but he has had some weird nap and wake up times lately so it hasn't really worked out.  Anyways, looking to see if there is any other advice/tips beyond the FAQ one in general sleep....

[Peek-a-boo]

Um, Stacy, isn't this the one where they need to go down earlier, not later?   

[Layla]

Well I don't have to do ANYTHING at all this time around cause we are going forward (so 6am is going to be 7)... so seeing that I was blessed with 2 early risers (6am-ers)... I thought "Yay.... they will be waking up at 7am ). Right???..... nooooo.... wrong!!!

The birds have started waking up at 5am & God only knows what causes them them to chirp away for 30mins that early... so they have done all the work for me & now my girls are waking up at 5am (& have been for the last few weeks). So I guess its back to 6am starts

With the last change when the clocks were going back I just put her to nap 20mins later, lunch, bedtime, everything 20mins later & then kept pushing every few days. It took her about a week to get from 5am to 6am

 

[BabyBsMommy]

Yeah, it is fall back so if they are waking at 7am right now, they'd be waking at 6am.  Thanks, Stacey - I hadn't really thought about how DS handles himself when we are vacationing....I usually try to keep him on his same routine when we go (everywhere we have been has been an hour ahead of us) and if we are only gone for a long weekend, he stays on track but if we go longer, he slowly starts to adjust to the change, too.  I think I'm going to try to bump bedtime/naps as he can handle it up to a half hour later before it changes and then just let him take care of things as he goes after it change.  It will also be dark until 8am around here for most of the winter which will probably help matters in terms of his sleep.

[mum6791]

Stressing about it as I have an early waker   Luckily her 5:30 waking has slowly been moving closer to 6:30, so I guess we get 5:30 wakings again!!!!  I think I'll start just moving everything by 15 min every few days and hope for the best.  I so wish the time change was the other way around - 7:30 would be such a dream!

[Mom to M&M]

My plan is the same as Stacy's!