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Mother & Baby
Daylight Savings Transition - Starting
- When daylight savings starts, it pays to gradually accustom your baby into the new times over the few days before the change. As with anything, babies respond best to gradual changes, and you may find it takes up to a week before they settle right into the new times for feeding and sleeping.
- Beging on the Thursday before daylight savings starts, so that you can gradually move their feeds and sleeps by 15 mins a day rather than the whole hour at once.
- On the Thursday morning try to start the first morning milk by 15 mins earlier than when they would usually have it, and carry on with starting everything 15 mins earlier (feeds and sleeps) for the whole day (Thursday).
- On Friday you would move everything by half and hour so the morning milk feed would be 6.30am
- Saturday you would try to move everything by 45 mins, so if your baby usually has his milk at 7am, you would try and give it as close to 6.15am as possible.
- This way by Sunday morning, your baby will already be almost at the new times, and when you put your clock forward they only have another 15 mins to adjust by, instead of a whole hour.
- For some babies, even the 15 minutes extra stretch can prove difficult, for these babies, the whole process may just take a few days longer and you could adjust their routine by 10 mins a day instead.
|
Day |
Daily
Routine |
Bedtime |
|
Wednesday
|
Usual sleep
& feed times |
7.00pm |
|
Thursday
|
Sleep
& feed times 15 mins earlier, e.g first feed at 6.45am not 7am. |
6.45pm |
|
Friday |
Sleep
& feed times 30 mins earlier, e.g first feed at 6.30am not 7am. |
6.30pm |
|
Saturday |
Sleep
& feed times 45 mins earlier, e.g first feed at 6.15am not 7am. |
6.15pm |
|
Sunday |
Wake your child at 7am (new
time), then back to your usual routine for sleeps & feeds |
7.00pm
(new time) |
We have permission from Katie Kilgour to publish this information.
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