Clocks going forward, is there any way to avoid it disrupting 9wk old ds too much??

[MrsMc82]

Hi,

We've got our 9wk old ds who is our first baby, into a really good 4 hourly feeding routine which he fell into really easily and he's just started sleeping from his late night feed at about 11 through to half 6/7am ish. Just a bit anxious about how the clocks changing is likely to affect him... Should we maybe just do his late night feed later??

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Sad to say - I wouldn't worry about the clocks - it's really important not to be too sure that you're in a routine at this age. It could all change tomorrow, clocks or no clocks, and it's a hideous disappointment if you think you've got it sorted and it all goes wonky.

Just take a day at a time, get all the sleep you can and await developments!

Hear hear Seeker.

Very jealous impressed your 9wo is in a routine! When the clocks changed when ds was small, we did it gradually - moving everything by 10 mins, each day for 6 days, if that makes sense. Think he was a few months rather than weeks, but it went ok, IIRC.

I would just leave it as it is - he will hopefully sleep through until 7/8am instead

Perhaps change the last feed more slowly - ie on first day of clocks changing, do it at 11.45, then a few days later change it to 11.30, then a few days later 11.15 then finally 11pm (or leave it at a later time if you go to bed at that time anyway)

I'm planning to follow Bertie's / MamaChris's advice with my 12 week old DS's bedtime (the only stable part of our 'routine', and that only because he decided when bedtime is!)

But I agree with Seeker - up to 6 weeks, DS had a wonderful routine, we congratulated ourselves on having such an advanced baby, and it then went to pot and hasn't returned since. If it happened again I hope I'd be less worried by it!

Clocks changed and ds sucessfully went through from 7 till 7 for first time ever!
Has done for last 3 nights
Very chuffed
Fully aware it may not continue as babies are always changing so will enjoy and get sleep while it lasts...
However does annoy me when people on mumsnet are so scathing of anyone who dares to think they may have got their baby into a routine at a young age and that it seems to frowned upon rather than supported - mums that favour a routine seem to be looked down upon on here - find it quite unpleasant.
FWIW DS1 fell into a 4 hourly feeding routine from moment he was brought home, waking like clockwork and has remained like this for last 9 weeks,yes I know were lucky, and I'm very grateful.
itd be worth some posters bearing in mind that people occasionally do really have really good babies and shouldn't be made to be felt to be naive and be patronised
Sure I'm not alone in feeling that "routine" seems to be treated as a dirty word on here....