How do babies usually do with time differences?

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Visiting home in Scotland next month from Canada with dd who will be 11 months. There is a 6 hr time difference. How much will this disrupt her eating/sleeping? Not really so much worried for coming back again but as she has 2 sets of grandparents desperate to see her I'm a little concerned I'll have a grumpy/stroppy little madam due to tiredness! We have a night flight into London, so hope she'll sleep then, then arrive in Scotland around 6is, so will feed, play bath and hopefully bed then up in the morning as usual. Too optomistic?

Absolutely not too optimistic. We've flown to various time zones at various ages with DD and DS(youngest was 6 months) and they were amazing. Most recently to New Zealand (12 hour difference) and they were into their usual routine immediately (we felt exhausted, but they were fine!). They did wake a little earlier than usual the first day, but after that absolutely fine. Good luck!

Thanks, thars very reassuring

Think she will be fine, when we travelled to america, after 1 day dd was fine - took us about 3-4 days to sort ourselves out.

ditto!
We flew to Oz, when ds was 7 mths, he was great, adapted straight away (different story coming home!), although needed an extra snooze in the afternoon for the 1st few days.

I think babies are far more adaptable as they have no real sense of time

Have fun!

Took DS to Beijing (8 hour difference, I think) when he was 7 months and that was a nightmare -- took at least a week before we could get him back into a decent stretch of nighttime sleep. He was teething as well, though, which probably didn't help. I'd been stressing in advance about the flight (10 hours but was fine) and hadn't even thought about jetlag, but that was a much bigger problem. Coming back from Beijing to the UK was fine, though.

I guess it just depends somewhat on the baby. I traveled with my 8 month old to a 7-hour time difference. We got in in the evening and she went to bed and that was that. We were up at 4am watching the news! She woke but never needed us and always managed to go back to sleep. She did wake a little earlier than usual (but again, we were up so not terribly bothered) and did require a good amount of napping.

I was so worked up about it.....but just try to stick with your schedule and watch them closely for signs. Good luck!