Early waking and the clocks going forward

[artifarti]

DS, seven months, has just mostly dropped the night feeding - hurrah! But now likes to start the day at 5.40 - and is then knackered two hours later and sleeps for half the morning.

I've heard some people say that the clocks moving can have a positive (going forward) or a negative (going backward) effect on sleep patterns but can't see that this would work in the long term. Sure, the first morning the clock would say 6.40 but then surely the next night, if I put him to bed at the normal time, we would be back to square one (5.40) the next morning!

So, am I right, is it a load of old nonsense?

It had no effect on any of mine.

Although when it fell in school holidays, I did omit to change the clocks in the DSs bedrooms - that fooled them for almost a week

Well for us I assume it will be positive - he'll be up an hour later and then go to bed an hour later, and as he goes to bed early at the moment, that's great. But yes if you still want them to go to bed at the 'normal' time it's not going to work is it? They'll take the same total amount of sleep.

Aha - yes! I can fool him into going to bed an hour later, good plan! [Artifarti wonders why she didn't think of that...then realises it's because she's been up since 5.40!]

in my experience dd takes just over a week to adjust I think it is the same with any other change to the normal routine, like holidays etc.
I just get ready to go with the flow and not stress