jet lag and 8 month old... please reassure me...

[Scarlett175]

as per title I am taking DD to San Fran for Xmas, she will be 8 months at time of travel, and has for the last month started to sleep through, after a world of pain for 5 months.

Am posting this here and in Sleep, but are there any tips to getting her sleep back to normal once we return... this is our current routine at bedtime:

6pm- bottle feed downstairs with mum
6.20pm- dad arrives home takes upstairs for bath
6.45pm- dad lays her in cot, reads story
6.55pm- lights off, dad stays til she settles, stops fussing

usually asleep by 7pm ish

PS. Don't hate me!! took ages to get to this point. Prior to this have BF to sleep/co-slept, you name it, I have tried it!!

Any help or thoughts appreciated, I am looking forward to my first holiday since DD born but dreading the aftermath :(

Infants adapt to jetlag and time difference easier than adults. That's my experience anyway.

Don't think about it or say you will do this, that or the other as she's likely to do the complete opposite when you get back!

Enjoy your time away - when you get back what will be will be.

It took DS 2 nights to adjust when we moved back from Australia earlier this year. He's 2.5.

We took dd1 round the world when she was 9 months, she coped much better than we did. We took it easy on the rountine thing as we were eating out at night etc. Just tried to keep her awake at daytime and just cuddled quietly if she woke at night. She was still having 2 naps a day at that point and for the first few days they were slightly longer than normal. We also did all night flights and she slept through every one.

She went back to her normal routine within 3 days of being back home.