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Phase shift baby's day

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em0000 · 04/12/2013 20:24

I'm going back to work at the end of January. DD is currently 10 months old and I still feed her to sleep (and feed mid-afternoon and morning too). We seem to have finally dropped the rest of the night feeds. At the moment her last feed is at about 6.45 and she's asleep by 7. However, I don't think I'm going to be able to get home from work by 6.45 and wondered if we could shift her bedtime so the feed was at 7.15 or thereabouts. I think we'd have to then shift her whole day, so her mornings and afternoon naps were later too. My worry is that she'd still wake up at the same time (currently 5.30-6ish) despite going to bed later. I wondered if anyone had any experience of trying to do this? Or any tips to make it work without her just losing 30-60 minutes of night sleep by not waking later...
PS she can go to sleep by herself, and does for naps and during the night when she wakes, so the feeding is really because I don't want to give up breastfeeding yet, not because she needs it to sleep...
TIA...

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SteamWisher · 04/12/2013 20:27

What are your childcare options? If a nursery you might have to be home early.

My dd needed an early bedtime - I used to get home at 6, which was hard especially when I had loads on. I just brought it home. Dd would want to be asleep by 6.30! It was a short phase - she goes down an hour later.
Basically I'm wondering if you can adjust your hours to suit your new lifestyle ie with a kid? So do early starts and early finish?

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