Daylight Savings Time...????? Coming up soon!

[Jann]

My LO is 16 months and we are on 1 nap.  Our routine is this.

6:30ish up
12:30ish nap 1.5 - 2hrs
7ish bedtime

How do we handle it?

Will his routine look something like this

7:30ish up
1:30ish nap
8ish bed

And if so will it ever straighten out and go back to the original routine?  Just wondering

Jann

[speechie]

Hey- I'm excited for the later wakeup, myself! LOL to sleep until 7:30 AM would be bliss!
But, yeah, I do think you can gradually do an earlier wakeup if you want to! 15 mins each day or so to slowly adjust.

[Sarah - Enfys' Mum]

Oh gawd, is it this time ALREADY?

[speechie]

March 8th I think?

[Jann]

Cathie,  could you elaborate on the 15 min earlier thing....or maybe how DST and routines work?  I have no idea.

Yes March 8th it is.....and I just got my LO on a great routine about 1 week ago.

thanks

[Sarah - Enfys' Mum]

Personally, I'm not worried about this one.  Enfys tends to be an early bird anyway so it is very easy for her to move her day forward   The autumn is a different story!

You can either move an hour later by not actually changing anything or you can wake your lo up a few minutes earlier each day until they are waking the "right" time on the "new" time. 

[*~goldie~*]

Why do we have daylight savings still?? I think we're the only county to have it! Its daft!

I worked with the last clock change in autumn by starting one week before, with fifteen minute increments every couple of days to build up.

x

[anna*]

Remember everyone, UK and US changes at different times. Just to confuse us all. Change the last Saturday in March here (UK)

[speechie]

Jann- Goldie said what I was going to about the 15 mins earlier each day. If your LO is waking at 8:30 and you want a 7:30 wake up, you'd wake them at 8:15 one day, 8:00 the next, 7:45 the next till 7:30 is the natural wake time again.
TBH, I've never had this problem as Nick wakes at 6-6:30 like clockwork.

[Mama2boys]

we ahve varying wake-up times so i am listening in...I like the idea of a later start but a later bed time - no thank you!

[Jann]

thanks, I guess I'll play it by ear.  I like the later wake up but like pp later bedtime no thanks!!

[Lulu m]

Hi all. Instead of waking your LO earlier each day, can you put them to bed earlier each night instead? This will also work - right?