clock changes + routine

[Dozeyland]

Dd 16m goes to bed at 7:00. What's the best way round the clock change?

As her body is going to be telling her 6pm still?

Just stick to routine? See when she's tired? Or ?

DD is 14mo and goes to bed at 6.45pm, gets up about 6.45am generally.

She was up at her usual time at 645 today but obviously to us its 7.45am so..I'm gonna have a go at putting her meals and afternoon nap back an hour today (cos to her it will still be at the same time) to see if I can move her bedtime/wake up time a bit later.

you shouldnt really need to change bedtimes,
just do all the rest of your routine to the new time, eg. breakfast and nap.
if theyre hungry between or tired just try your best to drag it out that way they wont notice a change.. hopefully lol
good luck x

I'm kinda glad as we were on 6 til 6 so I want to switch to 7 til 7. I bet it doesn't work that way though!

We preempted yesterday. Went out all day so ds (2.4) missed his nap. Was knackered by 4pm. Early dinner. Early bath and early bed (by half hour or so) Woke at 7. Normally 6.30ish so not going to mess too much today. We'll just do normal times. Maybe wake earlier if nap time goes beyond 3pm.
DD is 9mths. She did a normal day yesterday, routine wise, other than not getting much physical excercise in the day, but obviously lots of stimulation and fresh air knocked her out too. She woke just after ds.

I'm back to work tomorrow after ML so hoping it seems to have worked ok.

Hi we change ds's routine by half an hour for two days. Or aim to. It generally gets fudged a bit and he can be a bit random in his times for a week or so but just be prepared for that.

stick to your usual routine.
they catch up really, really quickly, because everything in the day moves - meal times, groups etc. it's when you just want to change a bedtime/wake time that it's hard.

But late for this now, but we decided, as the clocks have gone forward, to keep DD (13mo) on 'old' time today, so she has just gone to bed at 'new' 8pm (normally 7pm) and we'll just wake her at 7am as usual in the morning when we get up for work. She will get slightly less sleep overnight, but it has meant that she has eaten/napped at all the normal times and we haven't had to manipulate anything.

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PS meant to say, I find it much harder to plan around the autumn one, when they're going to wake Sunday morning at their normal time (e.g. 6.30am) and it will still be 5.30 new time.

Today was a iffy day with naps as we were out at a farm all day. so she slep at 2:15-3:45. (usually between 11:30-12:30 she sleps for 1.5-2hrs after playgroup) so i gave her dinner at 5:30.. put her down at 7:30 as she looked tired. but she didnt go of until 8:40 ish...

had a lot go on this weekend so it kind of threw her i think along with time change.

she usually does 7pm-6:30am.

so... i just dont know what todo

Interesting as we're going through an overtired/not napping anymore in the day phase with my 2.5 year old. I decided to go with the clock change and put her to bed at 7pm new time (6pm old time) even though my partner was convinced she wouldn't settle. She fell asleep in his arms while he was reading her a story... :)

I would never have thought of putting her down at 6pm if the clocks hadn't changed, but maybe a few early nights is just what she needs.

Yeah I was thinking shall I put her down at 7 (usual time for her) but would be 6pm old time. I think she wanted to this evening but i just didnt know what to do! I think where I did the routine the same as usual (dinner, bath, relax time, then we waited until 7:30) so she maybe got confused.

Tomorrow I was thinking doing 7:30 again..

Or just 7?