Time change

[konapoppy]

How did your babies do?

I just watched the clock change from 2 am back to 1 am and cried a little while holding one of the girls 😢

[thoseareradishes]

E got up at 6, which is equivalent to her usual 7. I was hoping she'd sleep a little longer since she had crap naps yesterday, but no go.

Her napping has totally gone to crap - 20-30 minutes each. I'm so frustrated and worried that it's going to start to affect her night sleep (which is still great, thankfully). It really throws our routine off when her naps are so short - we do eat, play, sleep, but when her nap are only 30 minutes, she's not hungry to eat again so soon. So she ends up being awake longer than she should, just to get her next bottle in before napping again. I feel like I'm missing something or maybe doing something wrong. She naps in a dark room, in her sleep sack, with wave sounds. She does have a pacifier, that I know is part of the issue, but we are not ready to drop it. Oh, and she is cutting two teeth. Ok so writing that out makes me feel like it's just something we have to push through and hopefully with consistency it will get better? H is getting annoyed with me because I worry about it so much, but he's not home during the week to deal with it, and wouldn't be getting up with her at night should her night sleep start to go downhill.

[pooh8402]

Woke up at 5, even though we put him to bed an hour late.

[Chrysanthemum]

C went to bed at his normal time and woke up at about his normal time. We brought him into bed with us to cuddle for a while because getting up before 7 on a Sunday didn’t seem right.

[lms]

We put C to bed later than normal to get him to sleep in a little bit. It sorta worked. He got up around 5:30 which to him would have been the equivalent of 6:30.

[loira]

A is pretty adaptable when it comes to this stuff. I also tend to leave her playing in her crib until 7am no matter when she wakes up, so it's never a problem (for my sleep, lol). I don't do gradual transitions - I treat it like jet lag. Best get on the current time as soon as possible and her body will figure out the rest.

That being said, if she doesn't figure it out today, I'll leave it to daycare to get her on schedule. #lazy

[King26]

J slept a lot yesterday and had a late nap so he went to bed 30 minutes later then normal and woke up around 629 instead of 7 so not bad.

Today his naps have been total crap. Like 20 or 30 minutes. I'm holding him as he sleeps in hope he takes a longer nap. I'm worried about tonight.

[oneslybookworm]

Eh, pretty typical. He went to bed a little earlier than he normally would (I swear, we can't keep that kid up past 7pm), but he woke up at the normal time (according to the clock...so around 5:15, which would be 6:15, but he normally wakes up at 5:15 most days). So, he just seems to be going down a little earlier than he normally would, but that will adjust in the next few days.

[shauni27]

well Saturday night, S had an epic meltdown. His first ever, and it was awful. He screamed from about 7-9 pm, looked like he was so uncomfortable. Finally went down to sleep at 10-10:30 and was up every 2-3 hours. He woke for the day at 7, which would have been 8. Even though he slept in a bit (as is normal for him), I was still just so exhausted.

[knx9211]

Pretty well, actually. He woke up at 5 yesterday but I could tell he's still tired so he whined and was in and out of sleep until 6, when he went back to sleep for an hour. This morning, he was up at 6 and really ready to get up after 6:30. So about an hour earlier than normal, but luckily he sleeps in so an hour earlier isn't killer.

[cactuscookie]

So far, so good. H slept in a bit on Saturday morning, so then we moved her nap later and ended up putting her to bed at night almost an hour later than normal. Sunday morning, she woke up at 6:45am instead of her normal 7:00/7:15am, so that wasn't too bad. Today she woke up just after 7am, like usual. We'll see if it lasts.

[mpc]

Our schedule was so thrown off this weekend because we took a quick trip up to NJ. DD actually slept pretty "late" sunday morning but got up earlier than I would've liked this morning.

[G22]

Nov 5, 2017 17:41:08 GMT -5 loira said:

A is pretty adaptable when it comes to this stuff. I also tend to leave her playing in her crib until 7am no matter when she wakes up, so it's never a problem (for my sleep, lol). I don't do gradual transitions - I treat it like jet lag. Best get on the current time as soon as possible and her body will figure out the rest.

That being said, if she doesn't figure it out today, I'll leave it to daycare to get her on schedule. #lazy

This is Z to a tee. Time change didn't affect him, but he routinely sleeps til between 8-9am, so even a 7am wake up isn't too bad.

Jetlag screws his sleep up worse than DST. I hate jetlag and 3am wakes ups more...

[cherryvalance]

Can a three month old be affected by DST? Because DS was OFF yesterday. He wasn't horrible, but just crabby and off his usual schedule. It was either DST or he knew today was my first day of work and just wanted to screw with me, lol.

[King26]

Nov 6, 2017 21:15:51 GMT -5 cherryvalance said:

Can a three month old be affected by DST? Because DS was OFF yesterday. He wasn't horrible, but just crabby and off his usual schedule. It was either DST or he knew today was my first day of work and just wanted to screw with me, lol.

I say yes. J was up for an hour longer then usual Sunday plus with the added hour I guess he was up 2 extra hours. Then Monday he slept all freaking dat. Now we are up for his first motn feed and he s been wide awake over an hour. I truly think it's the time change!

On another note..how was going back to work

[cherryvalance]

Nov 7, 2017 2:16:26 GMT -5 King26 said:

Nov 6, 2017 21:15:51 GMT -5 cherryvalance said:

Can a three month old be affected by DST? Because DS was OFF yesterday. He wasn't horrible, but just crabby and off his usual schedule. It was either DST or he knew today was my first day of work and just wanted to screw with me, lol.

I say yes. J was up for an hour longer then usual Sunday plus with the added hour I guess he was up 2 extra hours. Then Monday he slept all freaking dat. Now we are up for his first motn feed and he s been wide awake over an hour. I truly think it's the time change!

On another note..how was going back to work

Oh mam, poor J and poor you!

Thanks for asking! Work was fine, but the morning routine and commute were rough. We did as much as we could the night before, obviously, but there's just so many little things to grab and remember. H forgot my pump parts today . Leaving the baby was surprisingly easy, but he's at my mom's so it felt like other times she's babysat. I think I was too busy to really miss him, but it hit me hard at the end of the day.

[shauni27]

cherryvalance, I found it to be worse by the end of the day (still do) because I just miss him so much by the end. Our plan was for G to do drop off and pick up 90% of the time and I would go to the gym most days after work. HAHA I miss him so much, I just want to be home with him. I do pickup half the time now just so I can spend a little more time with him. But I am glad your return to work went well!

I agree with you, @daylily--the spring time change is WAY worse. WAY.

[cherryvalance]

shauni27, yes! That's exactly it. I snuggled him this morning after his MOTN wakeup and got in some good time, but after this full day away, I just want him NOW.

[cherryvalance]

@daylily, everyone kept telling me I'd be so glad to have a boy because they're alllll about Mommy, so I hope they're right because I want to snuggle him forever.

[shauni27]

Nov 7, 2017 16:02:04 GMT -5 @daylily said:

Nov 7, 2017 15:49:27 GMT -5 cherryvalance said:

@daylily , everyone kept telling me I'd be so glad to have a boy because they're alllll about Mommy, so I hope they're right because I want to snuggle him forever.

I wish I could put the little heart eyes emoji here because yes its the best! At 5, he is slowwwly growing out of it but he definitely still calls me Mama when its just us and loves his cuddle time at the end of a long day.

Its just that now its interspersed with fart jokes and him putting stickers on my butt while my back is turned. 

my goddaughter is 7 and she does this too, lol.

[loira]

You people are making me jealous. I have a total mama's girl with all of the cling and none of the snuggles. She'll only sit on my lap for a bottle. She doesn't even want to sit in my lap to read anymore - hell, half the time she pulls the book away and finishes reading it herself.

[thoseareradishes]

loira, E's not much of a cuddler either. Today I was trying to snuggle with her, and she bit me. Ha!

[shauni27]

Sage doesn't cuddle yet either, unless he is asleep, lol. But I am still holding out hope that he will cuddle when he gets a bit older.

[knx9211]

P is a monster snuggler, mostly when tired. I was whining last week that he never wanted to snuggle in and nap on me anymore. Turns out that was temporary. He napped on me for 90 minutes yesterday and only stopped because I had to get up to pee. It was awesome.

[thoseareradishes]

Ugh E is still getting up at 6am, instead of her usual 7-7:30. I tried ignoring her this morning, she lasted until 6:45 before she was like, um, Mommy, I'm done, get me up. We are going to try her in the pack and play in our room tonight, instead of the Halo. I'm hoping I can get a little more sleep that way, since she won't be right next to my head. If that doesn't work we may need to consider putting her in her room. She sleeps there for naps and the beginning of the night, but I'm so nervous to have her in there all night. But we all need more sleep.

[loira]

thoseareradishes, I was nervous about moving A to her own room at first, too. But I have to say, everyone slept SO much better! I was that person who bought an Angelcare monitor, and it definitely allowed me to relax and sleep - but I know it might have the opposite effect on others (in case of false alarms).

[thoseareradishes]

loira, we have a snuza, and it has false alarmed but it didn't really scare me since she always had alarms going off in the NICU. She sleeps on her belly now so I'm not sure how accurate it is.

We put her in the pack and play last night and it went okay until around 3:30. I got her up to feed her since I knew I would just keep waking up to see if she was ready. She went back to sleep without much issue, but around 5 she kept whining and wiggling around (I think she was gassy) so I put her in her crib, and she slept until 7. So. She may be deciding on her own she is ready for a change. Still makes me super nervous because she occasionally still chokes a little in her sleep - either on a bit of spit-up or excess saliva.