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Time Change and babies

Did the time change mess with anyone else's kid? He has been a pill both nights since the change. Right around 6:00 which would have been 7:00 (his bed time) he starts crying for no reason. I feed him and try to put him to bed, and he screams. I hold him and try to keep him awake, and he screams. Nothing will make him happy. It's so completely not normal for him. 

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Re: Time Change and babies

  • yup, they know when bedtime is.   And it's not when the little hand hits the 8.  

    Try adjusting him by 15 minutes a night.

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  • Ian did fine with this time change, but last spring he had a tough time.  I tried to keep his schedule the same even though the actual hours were off, which it sounds like you're doing.  He went to bed late Sunday, but by last night was right back on track.
  • Oh, Miles has been a nightmare the past two nights.  He normally goes to bed betw 8 and 8:30 and even before 7 yesterday he started flipping out.  I'm trying to just stretch him a little each night as Sam said, but it's tough when he's writhing on the floor and screaming because he's just so damned tired.
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  • Last year was bad and right after we got him back on his normal schedule we hit the 4 month wakeful. FUN!
  • Both kids magically adjusted their schedules on their own. This is the first time Will has done so.

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  • Ethan has been fine for waking up, all meals and naps. It's just been the going to bed at night part that's been off. I just feel so bad for him because I can't help him.
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  • I still haven't adjusted my own bedtime and wake up times, so I can imagine babies have an even harder time. Being awake before 5 am on the weekend is just so awesome!
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  • The time changes totally effs me up for days, and I can understand what's going on so I can imagine for a baby it has to suck.
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  • Ugh. It's been awful. And both my chickadees are waking up earlier too. T hate it.
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  • M has a real hard time understanding the concept of time (he even has a problem with yesterday, today, tomorrow), so we didn't tell him about the time change.

    The one thing he does do, though, is judge time by the sun, because Peru is close enough to the Equator that summer and winter days don't differ too much in the number of hours of sunlight they get.  So when it's dark, it's late, and when it's light out, it's day.  This makes it hard for him to sleep in the summer and for the last several weeks, it's been hard to get him up because he thinks I've been waking him in the middle of the night.

    This morning, he knocked on my door while I was getting ready to shower and asked if school was cancelled.  It was light out, and I hadn't woken him yet, and he was worried we'd be late. 

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