I am writing this post at 11:40 at night. I hate time
change. My sleepy toddler has been up since he was ready to go to bed. We
followed our regular bedtime routine, and if not for time change then we would
have been going to sleep at the right time. We laid down for HOURS and nothing.
We are now up watching Bambi, yawning like crazy and just not being able to sit
still. He is at this moment in time climbing up on the bed and sliding off of
it on his belly onto a pile of pillows – which he created all by himself. And what’s worst time change didn’t affect
our daily routine schedule at all.
I’ve been trying to find something online about helping my
baby to adapted to time change all day and it seems like there is nothing,
unless you start early on switching their internal clocks. But I didn’t do
that, because I forgot about time change an so now I will be helping him adjust
cold turkey.
I’m looking at no nap today, that way hopefully he will be
back on track. Hopefully tonight we will be asleep by 8:30 at the latest
instead of the 12:30 bedtime that we had last night. Instead of a full fledged
nap, I’ll just sit him down for a break at about 4pm and let him relax.
Earlier bath time, something nice and warm and comforting
for supper – like chicken noodle soup and crackers, followed by a warm muffin
that he just helped me finish baking this morning. Then maybe with a full belly
we can lay down at our usual bedtime with a warm blanket and a bottle of milk
and go to sleep and hopefully stay asleep for the night.
Here’s hoping for a better night. How did everyone else’s
kids adjust to time change? Any advice?
** I am happy to report going cold turkey worked. I had him skip his nap for two days and he went to bed earlier both days, by about 6:00pm he was ready to go to bed but I made him stay up till 7:30pm at the earliest. He continued to sleep all night, and had a couple of earlier mornings than usual. That’s not too bad seeing as his usual morning wake up is about 8:00am. And now he is completely back on track. Yay!!
** I am happy to report going cold turkey worked. I had him skip his nap for two days and he went to bed earlier both days, by about 6:00pm he was ready to go to bed but I made him stay up till 7:30pm at the earliest. He continued to sleep all night, and had a couple of earlier mornings than usual. That’s not too bad seeing as his usual morning wake up is about 8:00am. And now he is completely back on track. Yay!!
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