Dreading clocks changing.

[TerrifiedMothertobe]

11 month old and 3 year old early riser. Maybe extra long naps tomorrow and a later bedtime?

DS1 was a chronicly early riser (5.20 now, and he's 5). We tried the shift the time slightly every day, and in the end, we just go with
a) trying for a slightly later bedtime tonight
b) switching the clocks, and tomorrow, doing everything at the "right" time - ie if lunch is at 12o'clock, it is when the clocks say 12, not when your tummy says lunchtime.
Makes for a tired child late afternoon, so have a bit of a slob in the middle of the afternoon (blankets and film - we didn't do naps after 2yrs old)
Good luck! Thank fcuk it only happens twice a year.

Amen to that sugar......I dread it . But thankfully one day just one long day!!

We had a lie in this morning- 550! Usually a 530 riser.hell.

Monday will be the worst...!

What about the adults I suffer from insomnia anyway and I know for the next week I will be suffering from lack of sleep and won't really know what time it is and I have trouble knowing what day it is so I will be like a zombie !

I hate it. Dreary dark at 5pm for bloody months on end. I don't have babies any more so can't help on that one OP but if it's any consolation it's also very hard dragging secondary school-age kids out of bed at 7.30am when it's still friffing dark... Bluergh. Roll on summer.

Ugh I forgot about the clocks and gave made the ultimate error in not letting DS sleep after his nap refusal thus afternoon.

Now he's conked out already and will probably be up at 4am

Dreading it. DS (0.9) up since 4.30 with one short nap and a lot if standing up in his cot screaming today. I had more naps than he did

So, how early was everyone up today? A lovely 4.23am start from my early riser DS (13 months) here this morning

For the last 4 nights we've been putting him to bed at 7.30-7.45 instead of 7-7.15 to try and prep for it. In the past this tactic has never made the tiniest difference to when he wakes, and this week has been no different. He just gets slightly less sleep at night!

At just after 5am I took him downstairs and DP gave him his milk while I crawled back to bed for a while. DP and DS are now both asleep on the sofa! Heaven knows what's going to happen with his naps for the rest of the day now.

Kept dd up till 8, she woke at 4.55 on the new time although 5.55 in terms of how much sleep. shouldnt have bothered keeping her up late she just got less sleep, and found a long day today very hard! Can't wait for tomorrow morning ...

We didn't try to change times until nap time today. Enough age extra long sleeps. Baby is really struggling, now awake for 3rd time since bed at 6pm (7old time). He was too third for tea. Going to be a bumpy night.

OMG 4.15 start for me this morning! I did not effing sign up for this when I had kids!

DD2's (9mo) body clock thinks that 5.50 - so now 4.50 - is waking up time. This morning DD1 had a bad dream at 4.15 and woke us both up. DD1 went back to sleep but that was it for DD2. She was also up at 11pm for an hour for no apparent reason.

And to make matters worse we're staying at my parents as we're having repairs done on our house. So that means me and both DDs in one room. My younger sister and her boyfriend are also staying so I feel like I have to keep DD2 quiet, which means if she's up I kind of feel I have to get up so that she doesn't scream the house down.

Please tell me this is going to get better coz right now I can barely look at the little rascal!

Just shift the day to the new routine. They'll get it eventually

We've been up since 5am but hopefully by weds it'll be OK.

For us, food was the trigger. So if we caved, and did tea early, we got an early wake up.
Yes, it will get better and then it will be March, and suddenly they will get it straight away when the clocks go in the other direction

A 4am start here this morning... which does make sense, I guess, given that she's usually up for the day at 5am and then of course screaming with tiredness by 7.30am

Anyone with experience of this know how long it lasts?? I have a work deadline so need to work late into the evenings and I can't really cope if I have to start the day at 4am for a couple of months weeks.

So how did everyone do today? I thought that DD2 was up at 4.30 but left her to chat in her cot and when I looked again (ie when I couldn't ignore her any longer) it was 5.30, so that feels like an improvement. Worried that I might just be reappraising what's an acceptable wake-up time rather than DD2 actually sleeping any later! Both DDs have got full on colds too so I was up several times in the night. Zzzzzzz

My two woke at 630am but probably because they were exhausted and we shifted straight to the new time for meals etc even though they'd been up early.

4.40 again here today :(

Does anyone know, by the way, or have any personal experience of whether a lot of tv early in the mornings can actuallly perpetuate the early waking cycle?

I only ask as all i can face doing with DD at stupid o'clock is sticking on Peppa pig... she watched 2 hours of tv y'day morning before 7am and I think she's slughtly addicted. Could this be perpetuating the problem, does anyone know? and if so what the actual fuck else am I meant to do with her at 4.45am when she WILL. NOT. GO.BACK. TO. SLEEP?

Oh and she won't be left chatting/playing in her cot either. she will scream like a banshee, wake the neighbours (literally; we have v thin walls) and put me in an even worse mood to start the day :(

Emerald, poor you. I imagine the experts would say to keep things as low-key as possible in the very early mornings but also you gotta do what you gotta do!

We seem to slowly we creeping forward. I didn't get DD out of her cot this am til 5.50. I'm BFing her straight away, which I probably shouldn't do but it gives me another 20 mins in bed!

Oh dear, back to 5am today. Shouldn't it have got better by now?

It is getting quite cold in the mornings which wakes mine up early. When I end up sleeping in their rooms, by the early hours I feel cold and find it hard to settle. If I remember to stick the heating on to come on from 3am then it is usually a better wake up time!

5.15am here and an EPIC meltdown just before her nap... heating thing is good advice but I have a suspicion we're beyond that :( fuzzywig, sorry, maybe it takes a week or so...?