Daylight Savings and Baby Schedules

Slowly put her to bed earlier and earlier until you get her back to a good routine. This is the first year with the time change in all these years that my kids have been off. It's annoying but you can only slowly shift them back.

K. B
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She should be going to bed an hour early b/c of the time change, so she won't be losing any sleep if you wake her. My boys are 5 and 7 years old and still sleep later (I think b/c it's darker in the morning) for the first 2-3 weeks after day light savings starts.

Rolinda has it exactly! Fifteen minutes earlier to bed and 15 minutes earlier to wake gradually will do it! If you follow the same bedtime routine, she will not even realize that anything is different. Good luck!

I agree with the previous poster - just gradually put her to bed earlier and earlier.

D.,

For now, I would work it a week at a time, adjusting her SLEEP times by 15 minutes per week.

In the future, like the fall ... I would begin about month out and do the same, but this time finishing up at the time when the clocks change so that she's already re-adjusted that very morning.

In the spring, you would do this 15 minutes earlier each week. In the fall, 15 minutes later.

We do this in our home and it works great. Even my husband and I follow this pattern.

Hope that helps.

Argh, I have a 4 yo girl and 1 yo boy, and me and my kids struggle with it every year! If anyone wants to start a petition, I'll gladly sign it! I finally took what works for us and wrote it down... Maybe this will help?

http://factoidz.com/how-to-help-your-child-adjust-to-dayl...

I think if you wake her earlier then she will eventually go to bed a little earlier also. So that would put her back on the right schedule.