In the Fall, I start getting Daylight Savings questions up to a month prior, but not in the Spring. Ironically, before you have kids, you look forward to Daylight Savings in the Fall because we gain an hour, but in reality, it only means your baby will wake an hour earlier (gasp!). This week Daylight Savings starts and we "Spring Forward" which means most of us are looking forward to our children sleeping in, even though we lose an hour. Unfortunately, it also means your baby's sleep can suffer.
daylight savings
How to Get Your Baby Through Daylight Savings 2010
The end of Daylight Savings, when we turn our clocks back one hour, is probably one of the biggest worries for parents of young babies. I start getting questions about the time change up to a month ahead of time and understandably so. If your baby is already waking too early, just the thought of your baby waking an hour earlier is enough to make the calmest parent have a few butterflies. If you're like me who obsesses about sleep (how else could I write about this every week?), it wouldn't be
How to Recover from Daylight Savings
Now that the time has changed and the time has moved forward one hour, some of you still might be struggling. This is most commonly due to baby being overtired from the time change. I'm not sure about you, but I was EXHAUSTED on Monday. When my husband's alarm went off at 6 a.m. (old 5 a.m.), I was so tired! I dragged the whole day. I ended up having to wake my boys at 8 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. to try to get back to an earlier bedtime that night. My older son (who inspired this site) was SO
Phew! Daylight Savings is Behind Us
The end of Daylight Savings is always the source of worry for many parents, especially when their baby is waking too early. I thought I'd take the time to tell you how ours went and see how yours went, too. Thankfully, our daylight savings went fairly smooth this year. I personally use option 3 when it comes to daylight savings in our house. My boys are just too unpredictable to use another option. On Saturday night, I put the boys to bed around 9:20 p.m. which was a little late for my 21
Your Baby’s Sleep and Daylight Savings 2009
The end of daylight savings is upon us when we will change our clocks back one hour. In Europe, the clocks change this weekend and for the United States (most of them), they will change on November 1st. For most people this means a baby, toddler, or child who wakes up a dreaded one hour earlier. This is especially painful when your child is already getting up at the crack of dawn! Most people don't even get why we even have to change the clocks (Note: Nowadays, it's to save energy). You have
Spring Forward Sleep Survival with Kids
Some of you just got over the fall time change and now in a few weeks, we spring forward one hour. Just when you think you were out, they pull you back in! :) Fortunately, many of you are hoping for good things to come out of this time change, if your baby is waking too early and are excited at the prospect of "sleeping in" (after kids that means, what? 8 a.m. Ha!). Here is your Spring Forward Sleep Survival Guide with Kids. In honor of Spring Forward, you can also use coupon code "SPRING25" to
Daylight Savings Follow-Up
So, how did your time change go? Have your babies adjusted yet? I, the sleep obsessed, messed up my own children's schedule on the day after the time change. D'oh! Here's what happened... As expected, my kids woke up "one hour early" with the time change. Not a surprise because their internal clock doesn't know what our digital clock says, right? So, we went about our day and my goal was to put the boys to bed 1/2 hour later than their internal clock and 1/2 hour early on the digital clock.