Tips for surviving the clock change

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Help! We’ve got a gorgeous pup who is such a good boy and super fast learner (cockerdor), he is almost 16 weeks and we’ve had him just over 7 weeks. He was just getting to sleeping until about 6-6.15 until the clocks changed and feel like we’re back at the start now! Yesterday was 4.30, today was a little better but his day started at 5am. Any tips? I feel like we’re doing everything the internet says. He is crate trained and sleeps in the bedroom with us. We let him out to the toilet but then he’ll go back down for maybe 5-10 mins before crying.

Our puppy is 9mo now and I feel your pain! After the first few weeks of having him, if he was unsettled in the night I’d come down and sleep on the sofa leaving him in his crate. That’s been my strategy for the last couple of mornings. I come down at 5:45 and just doze on the sofa until 6:30 when I make a song and dance about it being morning and let him out. I’m hoping he gets the hint sooner rather than later!

See I’d happily do that but our room is next to youngest DDs room and he’s woken her up a few times already!

This probably doesn’t help right now but we have an 18 month old Cavapoo and he has always been great at sleeping through the night but his day started at 5:30am - I tried everything to get him to sleep later. And then about 2 months ago - he just started sleeping till 7:30/8. Some weekends, he’ll happily snooze whilst we have coffee in bed and don’t properly move til 8:30/9. We didn’t do anything different, we’d just resigned ourselves to early starts for the foreseeable and then he decided he enjoyed a lie in. So perhaps just a waiting game!