Time Changes Suck!

[cwolff]

Today I was up from 4:00am sometime doing the whole pacifier routine, and then she finally got up at 6:15am.  Usually it's well past 7am when she gets up.  Also, she slept horribly.  The past few nights we have been keeping her up and hour later, and she's been napping late in the afternoon.  Well, I don't think this worked out as we intended because she has a harder time going to sleep and is restless.  Last night we put her down around 8pm instead of 7pm, and it was up and down all night.  I don't know if it's the time change or what, but now it's bad napping all day and I think she's overtired.  Why oh why does the time have to change anyway.  I certainly don't care about it, wish I could just vote not to do it.  I hope this straightens itself out soon.

[Beata]

I hear you!!! My dd is having the same problems...lsa tnight went to bed at 8:30 (7:30) was up until 10 the 12 4 up at 6:15!!! I tried to feed and get her back down at 6:15, but she was happy and wide awake!!!  I just put her down to sleep - 6:30 (she would not take her usual cat nap to keep her up  until 7:30-8...so we'll see how long it takes to get back to normal!!!

[ashersmom]

Aaahhhh!  We put DS down at regular time last night (7PM) and he woke at 2:30 AM and was awake until 5:45, only to go back to bed for another 45 minutes!  He had been sleeping SO well!  I think it's the time change, too.  I was JUST complaining about the time change to my husband this morning...WHY do we have to have it??!!!  UUgghhh.

[kendallnangie]

Hi,
I feel bad for all you guys
I must say that I haven't had this problem,(i live in Arizona-no time changes here) but I have something that might help out...
We went to TX for a month when my DD was 6 months old and she did very well, never skipped a beat, anyhow I don't have a real TRICK or anything just try to look at it as traveling...it might take a day or two of travel but the adjustments will come....
for us I know that the first couple of days she took a more nap than usual, I think the last one was a  little catnap but whatever it took to get her on that time zone was ok with me.....ya know in baby land sometimes a nap as short as 10-15 minutes can help keep them going for quite a long time.
I wish I had some real advice.
what about a family outing....I know sometimes when we go out and the day gets all thrown off, it sometimes helps us fix a problem....maybe because our DD is so tired at the end of the day, she can do nothing else but sleep....it helps to start the next day off (fingers crossed) if they were able to sleep all night.
I hope that made sense....
Good luck to all of you,
Angie

[TayTay'smummy]

There must be something in the air, because what you're describing is exactly what we have been going through here. My lo has been sleeping horribly during the day, she was up for five hours yesterday, she was completely exhausted, we tried everything to get her to sleep but she kept waking up time and time again . . and the nights . . . just awful. I am so sleep deprived.  Today instead of being up at seven a.m., we started our day at six, gotta love that time change! :?

[Jamasco]

OK, so there is no magic answer then, right?  I was thinking maybe I should have started out 2 weeks ago putting her to bed a little later?  she went to bed at 8 last night and slept straight through (even with a cold) but she got up at 5:15 a.m.!  Not at the normal 6:30-6:45 a.m.  How long does it take their little bodies to adjust to this time change?  Just in time to put the clocks ahead!   :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

[jennc123]

yep, having the same issue, I always loved the time change but am hating right now ...I have to throw in an extra nap because she is so cranky!

[GG]

It's recommended that you start 2-4 weeks before the time change by putting them to bed 15 minutes later at a time.  So add 15 minutes at the end of the day until they get used to it (usually 3-4 days) and then adding 15 minutes more, so forth, until it's about an hour later. Even though it's now past the time change it's still the best thing to do to get them back to where they were.  Add 15 minutes past the baby's bedtime (so if it was 7:30 PM in the past, now it's 6:30 PM) for a few days and keep adding 15 minutes every few days until you get to the old bedtime. (I hope that makes sense.)

Trying to rush this by adding an hour right away will only make the baby cranky and will mess up their routine (as it seems some of you have already found out).

I started this in mid-September in anticipation of the time change but my saving grace was that we went on a trip to Europe and, when we got back, I basically picked 8:30 PM as the time to get him to bed so now that's 7:30 PM with the time change.  (Don't be too envious about that trip because it brought on a whole slew of other problems!!!)

Jennc123 is right... I certainly used to look forward to that extra hour of sleep until I had ds and realized that the babies don't see it a wonderful extra hour of sleep and just end up waking up their usual time (which is now an hour earlier!).

[cwolff]

I am shocked to say this but last night we were going to put dd to bed at 7pm.  So I did, but she decided it was playtime (I wrote another long post about how frustrated that makes me).  So it took her 1 hour to fall asleep.  So 8pm.  Then she was up around 2:30am for a bottle and back down till 6am.  I thought she was up for the day, but decided to pick her up and hold her for a few and she seemed to go back to sleep.  She slept till 7:30am!  So now we are back on normal time!  I'm thrilled, hope it lasts and isn't a fluke.