At 2am on Sunday, November 3, 2013, Americans will be turning their clocks back 1 hour marking the end of Daylight Savings Time.
This has been a day that I have looked forward to for as long as I can remember.
Until I got pregnant.
I remember savoring that extra hour of sleep last year as a sleepy, sick preggo mommy to be.
At the same time, I was grieving over my last year of getting an hour of extra sleep.
Well, friends, I'm doing my very best to make that NOT be true!
Although our schedule is sometimes more of a "routine", we do do our best to have a consistent, set bedtime for Christian. He has went to bed at about 9pm ever since he was about 1 month old.
After Daylight Savings Time, 8pm will really feel like 9pm.
Since our hope is to keep Christian's bedtime at about 9pm (so he can have more awake time with Daddy after he is home from work), we are attempting to slowly shift Christian's bedtime to 10pm pre-Daylight Savings and turning our clocks back. That way, 9pm will still be his right bedtime after Daylight Savings. Or, who knows, the kid may always end up deciding that he is ready for bed at 8pm anyway! Babies sure keep you on your toes!
So basically our attempt is to shift Christian's bedtime by 15 minutes every week leading up to November 3rd.
Week of October 7th - Bedtime 9:15pm
Week of October 14th - Bedtime 9:30pm
Week of October 21 - Bedtime 9:45pm
Week of October 28 - Bedtime 10pm
This has been working great for us so far! However, a later bedtime works for Christian since I stay home with him and we don't have to worry about him getting woke up in the morning to get to day care. As his bedtime has been moving later he is now sleeping until almost 11am most days. But this works for us.
Keep in mind, you could also slowly shift the bedtime AFTER Daylight Savings as well!
Fingers crossed that this will work and I won't be surprised with a baby up at the crack of dawn! :)
Here's to an extra hour of sleep!
But maybe not...
But maybe not...
Are you doing anything to get ready for Daylight Savings Times? Do you have any tips?
