Anyone else dreading the end of daylight savings?

I used to like daylight savings.....until I had a child.

DS is waking up early- 6am. Which means tomorrow its going to be 5AM. 5AM. :o

It doesn't seem to matter what time we put him to bed- up at the same time, no matter what. I am dreading the next week!

I just hope that if we keep his bedtime at the same time by the clock (ie, an hour later with daylight savings ending), he will eventually be tired enough to break through the normal waking him and sleep longer. Right? Please?

Anyone else developed a severe aversion to the whole daylight savings malarky?

I'm hoping to trick my two & keep them up a bit later than usual in the hope that they sleep longer. That said, they have been sleeping longer the last few weeks with it being darker in the morning.

I hope you can get through it ok :hug:

I'm hoping it will make my kids sleep longer. We get up at 5am most days. I refuse to get out of bed at 4am. They can kick and scream and cry, I don't care. I WILL NOT get out of bed at 4am. Hopefully they will realise this and sleep til at least 6am.....hopefully :crossfingers::pray:

YES! I am dreading it too! I think I've got weeks of DS waking up at 5am. These days it doesn't matter what time he goes to bed he still wakes up at 6am, so I'm thinking it might take us a while...

Dreading it here too... DD1 wakes anytime b/w 6 and 7.
Am also hoping i can keep her up til say 8pm and then she might sleep longer but normally it wont matter what time she's in bed.
Hopefully it stays nice and dark and cold and she will want to snuggle her blanket and go back to sleep.

Wont make too much dif with DD2 as she still just does her feed every 3hrs during the day so no routine yet, which is good.. no routine to stuff up... :rofl:

Yup. I am dreading it big time. Last winter, DD didn't adjust AT ALL. ALL normal time she got up at 0545... over Summer we can get 0645 - 0700. It didn't matter WHAT I tried, she still woke at the same time. I'm hoping that now she understands the sun is still asleep, she might stay in bed.... otherwise, I plan to seek revenge when she hits her teenage years ;)

Yes I am DREADING it!! I thought about eeking DS out with his dinner etc leading up to this weekend but he wouldn't have a bar of it :lol:
Lately he's been wanting his dinner between 4:30-5pm, will NOT wait any longer & it's been a stretch to hold him out for 5pm. Then he's been wanting bed really early too, 6pm at the latest. He still wakes at least once through the night then has been rising at 7am - no later eeeek!!
So I guess we're in for 3:30-4pm dinner, bed at 5pm then up at 6am? Oh no...

Yes as DD's sleeping is completely over the shop at the moment, and as much as I want DLS to end, it isn't going to help DD's wake up time :wall:

It doesnt matter what time my kids go to bed tehy always wake up at the same time, so Im guessing its not going to make much of a difference.

I personally hate daylight savings with a passion becuase my kids wont go to bed at night if its light. Its not so bad ATM but in the height of summer its a nightmare.

I wasn't so scared...but now I am! :lol:

My big two usually adjust pretty quickly but I'm worried about bub who isn't sleeping well these days :wall:

Yes, but for a completely different reason than anyone else - the cemetery closes three hours earlier when it's not daylight savings. Over the past month I've gotten used to dropping in at about 6ish - from tomorrow they'll close at 5 :(

Also, DH and I are going out tomorrow night, and we have to be in the city by 6. I bet we leave at the wrong time!

My theory didn't work :doh: DD has been awake since 4am. I refuse to let her out of bed though!

ouch sarah!

Uh huh! Took her til 5.30 to go back to sleep, but then I couldn't get back to sleep :rolleyes: However, at 7am they're both still in bed, so hopefully that was just a hiccup!

Another one here.... doesn't seem to matter what time she goes to bed she still wakes at 5.30... now it will be 4.30 she doesn't seem to care that it's still completely dark!
Thank god for Foxtel is all I can say.... buys me another hour of sleep.

No way, I'm thrilled it's over. It's going to be sooo much easier to get them into bed at night and I'm a morning person anyway!

I'm surprised... cos it worked here! I kept the kids up the extra hour and they woke at 6 this morning. I was dreading the 5am wakeup as well. I think it was a fluke tho LOL. We'll see how this week pans out.

I think most of our early morning wakeups are due to waking up cold. Have to get the kids used to using blankets again. Warm jarmies aren't cutting it any more hehe.

Worked for us today, too! Thankgoodness. DS woke at 4am, had some boo and went back to sleep with a little tossing and turning, but slept til 6.15am! That's a sleep in in our house!

i'm excited.... i've got a 3 year old and an 11 week old asleep by 7pm!!!! its heaven... tomorrow i might even try for 6.45pm.....
i can never really guarantee what time i am going to be up in the mornings with an 11 week old, so its the bedtimes at night that i need to get a good deal with.... that said i do not plan on letting either of them up until 7am, maybe 6.45am at the earliest... not sure how it will go, but i could jump for joy, we usually have bed times of between 8pm-9pm, and for them to actually be asleep at 7pm, its like a dream come true...

i don't know how its going to work when the in laws drop around at 6.30pm or later constantly... do you think i can say something, like somehow say the kids go to bed EARLY now...?

Worked ok here for us too... DD1 was too busy running amock with her cousin and had such a full on day, she went down prob around the normal time but slept in til 7 this morning... she never used to sleep til 8... see even with the time dif she's up by 7... :rofl:

DD2 doesn't really affect yet, she still did her night time stuff around (albeit a little earlier) but she will hopefully sleep 6-8hrs then go every 3hrs from there.

No hiccups here either - they woke at the normal time which was actually 6.40am (would normally have been around 7.30am but I can live with that! Expecting them to wake around 7.30am tomorrow as normal...fingers crossed! I must admit, I much prefer putting them to bed at 7pm and it being dark :)

Ugh, we were up at 5:30, despite putting DS to bed LATE.

5:30 is not a nice time.

Jess, 4.45.
We managed to wrestle her back into bed until 6.00 but she didn't sleep much.
It's going to be a looooooooooooooooong winter.....

Bit me in the butt this morning....4.40am. OMG, I didn't think I could hate getting up any more than I did at 5am, but 4.40....it should be illegal! DD slept til about 5.45 though. Yay :rolleyes: The upside is they have had a 1 3/4 hour sleep this arvo and still going! DS took 2 seconds to get into bed for his arvo nap but wanted to go back to bed at 10am! I stretched him out til 11 but couldn't stand his whining and grumpiness any longer! They're going to bed at 7pm, but it's the mornings that are all over the shop! I hope they sort themselves out a bit tonight, I have to go to work tomorrow!

DD1 went to bed at 6:30 last night (unheard of here) after a HUGE day i guess and slept in til 7 :o i swear this kid is up by 7 - 7:30 at the latest every day, even with the time change.. why couldn't she sleep til 8am previously?

Wonder how she will go today, she was up at 7, went to bed just after 11am and is still asleep.. 2hrs and counting.

Crappy sleeping for all of us here, battling to get her to go back to sleep, we are all feeling sleep deprived.... :rolleyes:

Well, the positive is that we got an almost 3 hour nap out of DS today, which was awesome.

And even more awesome....DS is staying at my mum's tonight!!! Super yay! Hello sleep in.... (ie- anything beyond 6am).

well i was awake before any of the kids, and bubs woke at 6am so thought i may as well 'let him get up' after his feed.... 3 year old dd didn't surface until about 7.20am.... it was quite nice watching the morning news shows just with the bub, uninterupted cuddles etc.... aaaaaagh babies seem so easy at the moment compared to toddlers.... in a weird kinda way, even though they are so utterly dependent... they don't make as much noise (when they are content!)
oh and they don't demand ABCkids on the tele in the mornings.