Daylight Savings help please

**jenjen25** · September 29th, 2009, 04:49 PM

As daylight savings approaches firstly i'm thinking yay yay yay!!! secondly OMG what am i going to do with my 7 month old????

What do i do? because 6.30pm when his bed time is will really be 5.30pm to his body clock so do i keep him at his body clock time or do i try and stretch him out????

Very confused as to what to do and how to approach it, would really love some advice.

Thanks

**Astrolady** · September 29th, 2009, 05:11 PM

Put him to bed when he is tired. If that is his usual time then so be it. It will be darker in the mornings so he may not wake up till that little bit later anyway. I have never had any drama with my 3 kids.

**principessa76** · September 29th, 2009, 09:09 PM

If you still want him to go to bed at a set time then I've heard you move the bedtime back by 15mins per night until he's going to bed at the time you want.
Eg. You want him to go to bed at 6.30pm. When daylight saving starts it will be 7.30pm. So the first night you put him to bed at 7.30pm, the next night 7.15pm, the next night 7.00pm and so on.

**Mak** · September 30th, 2009, 08:25 AM

I agree with Astrolady - I have tried winding back but it never worked just upset the routine, especially with the clock moving forward. My girls have been waking up at 5.30am due to the light so we're pretending it will be a sleep in on Sunday! Good luck!

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · September 30th, 2009, 08:32 AM

I was going to ask the same about my nearly 1 yr old... i figure i will let her go until she is tired and then put her down, she's almost having 1 nap a day so daylight savings might work better for her if she sleeps a little longer in the morning?

Will watch this thread for other helpful hints...