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clocks going back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

42 replies

purplehaze · 26/10/2004 09:47

Hi

Getting a bit scared about clocks this Sunday. As have only just got my little one in a good sleep routine.

has anyone got a good wat to tackle it????

I expect it will all go fine, but just a bit worried.

xxxx

OP posts:
marthamoo · 26/10/2004 09:48

I am so looking forward to getting up at 4am instead of 5....

MistressMary · 26/10/2004 09:51

Ohh yes! Good question. I am thinking the same thing.

MINIMAX · 26/10/2004 09:52

Yeah - me too!

I think they soon settle into the new times though. My eldest always used to go to bed after Cbeebies bedtime hour, so when the clocks go forward/backwards, he hasn't previously noticed too much because he just goes to bed after that...

Its better when the clocks go forward - at least you feel like they lay in for once!

Original poster
purplehaze · 26/10/2004 10:00

I'm glad I'm not te only one who's worried. My husband keeps telling me to stop going on about it, but he's not the one that will be getting up at 5am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good luck everyone.

XX

OP posts:
hermykne · 26/10/2004 10:09

push bed time forward 15mins every night this week, saw that tip on another thread

alibo · 26/10/2004 10:10

my ds is 9 months, how do you get round this as far as bedtime and getting up time??!!

welshmum · 26/10/2004 10:18

I seem to remember that we didn't do anything last time - had one early start and then after a day with meals/naps at the different time she was awake at the 'right' time the next day.

gothicmama · 26/10/2004 11:07

carry on with routine (ie ignore time but get to normal time in 10 mins stages over a couple of weeks

prefernot · 26/10/2004 14:17

I'm rubbish at mathematics. So we put our watches / clocks back an hour meaning that 7pm is now 6pm? In that case we put the little darlings to bed 15 minutes earlier than normal every evening this week?

WideWebWitch · 26/10/2004 14:24

cacking it meself. Expect dd will continue as normal so her 6am waking will now become 5am

gothicmama · 26/10/2004 15:06

ok 7pm now = 6pm soon so bed at 6
then two or so days later bed at 6:15 then two days or so bed 6:30 adn then bed 6:45 and so on to 7- THis seems to be the best way I have found with dd

KateandtheGirls · 26/10/2004 15:13

I have never tried to do anything about it. One hour really isn't much and I've found my kids get used to it as soon as the adults do.

So, yes, the little one will wake up at 5:30am instead of 6:30am on Sunday morning, but it will still feel like 6:30 to me anyway, IYSWIM. Also Sunday is Halloween, so it's not going to be a "normal" day anyway.

LunarSea · 26/10/2004 16:21

Well I'm quite looking forwards to getting ds asleep by between 8 and 8.30, rather than between 9 and 9.30. Might actually get some evening time left to ourselves for once!

Grommit · 26/10/2004 16:46

Purplehaze - why not get your dh to get up with the kids on Sunday? Hd and I always take turns - luckily my sleep in is Sundays!!

alibo · 29/10/2004 08:55

any more ideas for bed/getting up times on sunday?? ds has gone to bed at roughly same time this week leading up to the weekend, as if we don't leave enough space between tea and bedtime bottle, he won't have it(?)

Pebs · 29/10/2004 10:11

I plan to increase DS's bottles on the Saturday as he needs an extra ounce at each feed about now anyway and hope this will help him to get to nearer to 7am on Sunday morning. I'm sure that DS will have other ideas but it is worth a try.
Nice to know that everyone else is worried too. I thought that I was being ridiculous. Also worried about loud fireworks and trick or treaters. If anyone wakes DS I will not be a happy parent.

jampot · 29/10/2004 10:21

we never seemed to encounter any probs that lasted more than a day from what i remember but then we weren't completely regimented either. I imagine if there is a definite time slot for things then you may encounter some probs but nothing that cant be fixed - after all its just a number

prefernot · 30/10/2004 12:26

It is midnight tonight that they go back isn't it? So as of tomorrow morning 7am will be 6am? Sorry for being such a mathematical dope ...

My plan is to act like it's the old time and just stage things slightly later throughout the day until bedtime is roughly at dd's usual hour. It worked last year but then the difference between a 1 year old and a 2 year old is pretty huge ...

Cam · 30/10/2004 16:56

I think at 2 am they turn the clock back to 1 am at Greenwich

Cam · 30/10/2004 16:58

Or actually they just stop it for an hour at 2 am

mieow · 30/10/2004 17:01

I am really looking forward to getting up at 4am its hard enough at 5am

Lonelymum · 30/10/2004 17:21

All you new parents, welcome to the world of parenting! I hate all those TV / radio announcers saying "You can all have an extra hour in bed tonight!" I wish! Not for the last eight years! Don't have any advice except put your child to bed a bit later if you can and hope they sleep a bit longer as a consequence (they probably won't!)

zebra · 30/10/2004 17:43

DS2 has put himself on a routine (no doing of mine), which is sleeping roughly 6pm-5am. I have tried to shove him to sleeping later, not a chance! Heaven knows what he'll do after tonight...

Plus tomorrow we have a birthday party for DS1, 1pm start. HOW MANY parents do you suppose will turn up with their cherubs at noon, right as we're tucking into our Sunday roast? I really don't care if they sit outside with us (THANK YOU WEATHER GODS for providing suitable bouncy castle weather), but they're going to feel awkward.

prefernot · 31/10/2004 20:26

So how did you all get on?

Dd was up at her usual 6.30 (5.30 today ), then I just did her lunch a bit earlier according to new time scale, she had a mammoth nap which made up for the longer morning and I put her to bed at her usual 7.30 (8.30 today) and she was utterly exhausted ...

MrsMiaWallace · 31/10/2004 20:30

Hi Prefernot
Eve was up at 5.30(6.30 her time)
slept at 11.30 (normally gos about 12.30-2 ish)
been wingey and moany all day and had very 'soft'nappy tonight! gave 5ml medised at 4pm, she then told me she wanted to go in the bath and fell asleep 15 mins after i dressed her in jim jams......5.15!!!!!!!
am i in for a good night or what!!!
ill be walking the walls with her about 2 in the morn

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