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Anyone else suffering from the clock change?

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ballbaby · 29/10/2006 07:10

I'm in such a bad mood before I even start this morning - I've been up two and a half hours while the rest of the country is having an extra hour in bed this morning. Plus I have two ds's on my own today as dh is between night shifts. Why do they have to change the clocks it's really annoying!

Off to get some chocolate to help me face the day

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ledodgywizardrobespierre · 29/10/2006 11:10

No i'm quite happy due to the dark mornings lately dd and ds have been getting up an hour later anyway or sometimes more (ds has been waking up at 9.20 am!).

TS123 · 29/10/2006 13:22

I think I can make everyone feel better that they don't have it so bad. My DS, now 11 months old has ALWAYS woken at 5:30am. So, naturally this morning it became 4:30am. No amount of milk, co-sleeping etc could coax him back to sleep and finally he was literally hysterical. This is despite planning ahead and putting him to bed an hour later than usual for the last 4 nights. I have read old threads on this topic and most babies seem to adapt within a few days to the new bedtime. I am so frazzled I cannot even sleep well when DS is asleep. Sorry to hijack this thread but does anyone, ANYONE, have any advice for me. I am working and pregnant so I'm nearly in tears dealing with this.

Beakysmum · 29/10/2006 14:52

TS123 - totally totally sympathise with you. I had the worst time getting my ds to sleep at all for first 17 weeks of his life; he was just an incredibly hungry baby who wanted a b/f every 2.5 hours night and day. He went from 9th centile to nearly 75th, where he has been ever since.

BUT what a cost to me. I lost all my sleeping pattern (never had any problem before) and not helped by insomniac dh who wanted his unbroken sleep at any price. I think it is worse if you feel under pressure to get your sleep and you are cos you are pregnant. I tried all the herbal remedies to aid sleep, but in the end, went to GP and got sleeping tablets and anti-depressants. (Don't know where the line between plain tiredness and depression comes, but I don't car!) the tablets worked gradually over the next couple of months.

Still wouldn't say I'm totally back to normal sleep, but by comparison I feel great now.
Good luck, it's the worst thing I know

Beakysmum · 29/10/2006 15:01

Hi; realise that my last post may not sound that helpful in terms of tips on getting baby to sleep!

I just think that there are times when you cannot MAKE a baby sleep and if you are getting so frazzled that your own sleep patterns are being affected, then consider help for yourself as well as for baby.

Also, have you tried leaving baby to it for short periods at 4.30am? He might just drop off. I got the surprise of my life when I once walked our of ds room in despair and he was asleep in 10secs. I think he wanted peace, not constant rocking etc etc!!!!
Take care.

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ballbaby · 29/10/2006 20:11

Have just put ds's to bed and am completely shattered. Only staying up so I can watch the Royle family - sod it I'll tape it and get an early night!

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brightwell · 29/10/2006 21:25

giraffeski you have my sympathy, I work night's an 11 hour shift is plenty long enough for me. I requested this Saturday off for that very reason.

expatinscotland · 29/10/2006 21:32

YES!

Both bairns were crabbit and DD2 cried till she gave herself the boak.

Poor souls!

NastyNemo666 · 29/10/2006 21:35

definetely..I hate the change of clocks day with young children. Ds not too bad as he is 3 but DD was soo cranky and wanted to go to bed at 5.30pm as she is usually in between 6.30-7pm. Only probably with ds is have been working really hard to try and get him to sleep later but now back to square one.
Am also suffering myself I cant handle the throwing out of times even though I usually stay up late anyway.

SoMuchToBats · 29/10/2006 21:44

Not too bad as ds (aged 5 ) gets up about 7 and goes downstairs to play himself anyway. But this morning he was coming up, demanding breakfast. But t least it wasn't difficult geting him to bed on time tonight.

TS123 · 30/10/2006 11:58

NastyNemo666, when you say you have been working really hard to get dd to sleep later -- was it effective (before the time change)? I've tried and tried and for weeks to get ds to sleep later so we aren't faced with a 5am wake-up call but the only effect is that ds gets more and more sleep deprived until his naps suddenly get shorter and harder for him to take. Are some babies just really not that adaptable? Or is it that I am not persistent enough?

earlyriser · 30/10/2006 13:24

I too am having the same prioblem. my one yr old dd has been a 5.30 riser since she started sleeping through the night (about 8mo) which is fine if i've put her to bed at 6, but with the time change coming i tried to put her to bed later, this was no problem as she is happiest after her tea, but after 3 mornings of her sleeping 12 hours (in itself a miracle) and 2 naps of 1.5h each (and a rather smug mummy)she was back to 5.30am and v grumpy if i'd put her to bed at 7. Last night put her down at 6.30, fell asleep at 7 but woke up at 5am. Thinking it is going to be a looong winter until the clocks change back again. Anyone give me some hope?

Clary · 30/10/2006 13:36

Kids were up at 6.30 as usual yesterday .... of course it was really 5.30. Crabby by 5pm, grottissimo by 6pm, spooned them into bed by 10 to 7 (normal bedtime is 7-ish).

Then they started bouncing out of bed at 5.15 this am - again, all up by 6.15, unnecessarily early, even in this house. Ah well, it'll settle down today (I hope).

lol at all of you forgetting - I did too and we were clearing out the front garden at 9am - well, we all thought it was 10am!

IdrisTheDragon · 30/10/2006 13:37

It wasn't DS and DD who woke up too early this morning - it was me.

Piffle · 30/10/2006 13:39

thought we'd sail through as per last yr.
12 yr old ds never wakes before 10 on a weekend
DD (she was 3) sleeps through til 9 on weekends
I forgot one crucial thing...
DD was in nappies at night last year
Her body clock may be remarkable but her bladder is not...
6.30 on the DOT
[yawn]

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ballbaby · 30/10/2006 18:21

My ds (14 months) is an early waker but i only put him to bed at 8pm, and he only has a 1 hour nap during the day. So he only sleeps c 11 hours which is less than my 3.5 yo - unnatrual really! I've tried putting him to bed earlier as well as later and all the other "tricks" but nothing seems to work. I can count on one hand the number of nights since he was born that I've put them to bed and not had to get up before 7am. Oh well I think it's just a case of him growing out of it

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TS123 · 31/10/2006 12:01

Well, this morning it was 4:20am for us. Ds is clearly not adapting well to the time change. Frankly, I think it's not just the time change, because even he was still tired at that hour (so he clearly hadn't finished his sleep). Why is it that some nights he'll sleep 10.5 hours and others less than 9.5????

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