Time Change

Is she going to bed earlier? That may be the only way for her to get the sleep she was getting before the time change. As time goes on, she will probably slowly creep back to waking a little later...

I am in the same boat as you. My boys are waking up between 5 and 530 now and they want to get out of their rooms right away. I don't have any advice since nothing has worked for us either, but you're not alone! Good luck!

It sounds like it would be counter productive, but try putting her to bed earlier. Most kids sleep better when they are better rested. It will also take a good three weeks for her to fully adjust to the time change. My kids would get messed up for weeks after DST changes and I just hated it! I couldn't believe that one hour could mess them up so much for so long. (My boys are now older and adjust quickly to DST, but I have two old dogs who are waking me up before 6 because they haven't adjusted yet!!) Mary Sheedy Kurcinka's book, "Sleepless in America" might have suggestions in it for adapting to time changes. Good luck.

We have the same issue. My only advice is to move to Hawaii or Arizona. Mabey I'll take my own advice :)

My kids are doing the same thing. For my daughter (20 months) I've been leaving her in her room until normal wake up time. I'm hoping she'll just figure out that I won't go get her and just sleep later. With my son (4 years) I tell him to go back to sleep but he usually just gets up on his own and doesn't want to stay in bed. I'm sure it will take a little time but they'll go back to their old schedules. I hate daylight savings because it messes up the kids' schedules. Good luck!

I must say my son is 7 months old and the change didnt really bother him. he did wake up an hour early (6:30) but i slipped him an extra long nap and he was back on the normal schedule. Generally he only takes 2 30-60 min naps in a day but on Sunday afternoon i held him for his afternoon nap and got him to sleep for two and a half hours. then he went to bed at his normal time 7:30 pm, woke up once in the night and got up for good at 7:45 am. I dont know if that idea helps anyone, but it worked for me.

You have to remember that her body is telling her that it's 6:15. I might take a little while for her to adjust. My kids are doing the same thing. We're having problems in the evening. My middle child is having a really hard time with bed time. She is so tired and crabby.

This too shall pass. Unfortunately, it will happen again :)

Hi A.,
Before daylight savings began this spring, my then 15 month old son went to bed at 7 pm. Then, when we 'sprang forward' we just naturally moved it to 8. We thought it would stay that way, but since we've 'fallen back,' he is exhausted by 7:30. I'm putting him down "earlier," since it's 7, not 8, but he actually sleeps to the same time (between 7 or 8). I've heard that the earlier they go to bed, the longer they sleep. Also, don't get your daughter out of bed right when she cries. Let her go for awhile, and she'll get used to you coming in to get her when it's lighter outside. Make sure she has some snugglies or other things to keep her busy. She will get used to that if you stick with it, I promise.
Good luck!
Amy K

Hi A.! I hope it is going better for you! This year the time change seemed to sneek up on us. Once I realized it was coming (only a week in advance), I started keeping my daughter up later and later through the week, so that when the time change came, it really worked out for the best. Not that it helps now, but maybe doing this next time will help you, too! Like we need one more thing to think about!!!

Our daughter does the same thing. I notice it takes about a week for her to fall back into her normal routine, give it some time, her natural clock will kick back in. For future reference before a time change, I have heard of some parents moving the bedtime to accomidate the change --this usually helps. I have never done it but they claim success with it.

I am also having the same problem. My 18 month old twin girls are getting up between 6-6:30. It didn't seem to matter that I kept them up later. They are still getting up that early. The only good thing is that 1 of them did sleep until 7:30 this morning. She is my good sleeper though. I think the other mornings her sister was waking her up earlier. I don't know what to do either, but like some of the other Moms I wanted to let you know you are not alone. Thanks for posting the question!
Good luck to us all!
Jenn

I'm dealing with the same thing with my son. He usually wakes up around 7:30, but has been waking between 5:45 and 6:15 all week. I've been trying to tell him its too early and he has to go back to sleeping, but its tough. He keeps getting up every 15-20 min and trying again to be up for the day. I've tried putting him to bed earlier as some mothers have suggested, but it hasn't done any good yet.

I agree with some of the other mothers, that it is just going to be a matter of time before they settle back into the new schedule. But what a tiring week!!

Good luck to you! And to me :)

i had this EXACT same problem! :D

well, say my son goes to nap predictibly around 12. so ... with the time change, he wants to go nap around 11. so what ive been doing then is trying to keep him up until 1 pm. it seems to be working. he is still a bit off in the morning, he still wants to be up at 630 instead of 730 - and thats possible for us, but lately ive been sick, so ive been extra tired. we try to all get to bed by 9 pm instead of 10. and this week, we have been trying to get our son to stay up until 9 with us. he actually slept till 730 one morning this week, so it seems to be working.

its rough though! what a bummer the time change has !