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Plushie 
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 8:12am |
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This is going to sound a bit silly but does it mess with their heads?
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MrsEmma
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 8:18am |
Lol, it will mess with their sleeping pattern. www.thesleepstore.co.nz has great info on how to 'prepare' them for it and ideas on how to change their routine over a few days beforehand to make it easier to deal with 
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 8:46am |
bowie check this out, it may help sleep
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 12:55pm |
Yes its sleep that becomes a problem.
We get up some days at 530am, im really dreading next week 
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 2:04pm |
What, i thought it was going back? So 5.30am would become 6.30am?
Thanks for the links guys, only occured to me this morning that it might get messy 
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 2:27pm |
Do the clocks go forward? i just thought they went back because that article said waking at 7am then they wake at 6am  Guess id better find out. 
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 2:51pm |
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Not sure what happens, I am pretty sure it goes forward?
DD was maybe less than 6 weeks old I think this time last year and we didn't notice any change! But roll on summer starting day light savings and 6.30/7am wake ups became 5am wake ups - 6am wake ups lol but after maybe a month or less she changed it and decided to sleep until 7.30-8am and has been doing that since maybe Dec/January?!
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 2:55pm |
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We are going into 'fall' so we Fall back
no Idea on the baby front, but I know it messes with the dogs & their feeding times (well when they think they are going to be fed!), so no doubt will do to babies as well - Good Luck!
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 2:58pm |
Yep and in spring we "spring" forward What date does it change?
I'm with you on the dog thing CrazyCass!
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 3:03pm |
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I honestly never noticed a difference with our pets!
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Plushie
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 3:17pm |
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I do with the dog! I was actually hopefully as DS doesnt seem capable of staying up past 5 - thats bedtime as far as he is concerned and can't be swayed from it! Was hoping that would move back to 6 but now you're saying its going to move foward to 4? POO!
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 3:22pm |
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High9
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 3:42pm |
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Nope, it's going to go back?? Hence why it gets darker earlier...? And goes forward for summer hence it getting darker later...
You may not even notice a change but you may, guess you'll have to wait and see!
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 4:04pm |
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It never ever messed with my kids sleeping! They just went to bed as normal.
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 6:58pm |
we're the same as Sheza- never done anything to prepare them for it and never had a problem.
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Posted: 31 March 2011 at 7:31pm |
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Clocks go back, so usually bedtime becomes an hour earlier and wake time is an hour earlier. A good idea is to start now with pushing everything later by 15mins each week or even day if they can cope.
I've always had a problem with DD and daylight savings, last winter I could not for the life of me make her stay up any later than 6/6:30pm. Hopefully now she's a bit older it may be easier. I am lucky though that she sleeps 12 hours+ at night. Have to admit, it's quite nice having her go to bed so early. We have to get up at 6:30am anyway.
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Posted: 01 April 2011 at 2:58am |
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oh right i see what i did there - i thought fall back so time would go from 1 - 2, back being later in my head. Duh. I blame baby brain...i can still use that excuse right?
Might start working on it, DS put himself out for the night at 3 (!?) and despite me waking him at 5 for food and bath etc resisted the process so had a very early bedtime hence me awake and online at 3am!
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Posted: 01 April 2011 at 7:31am |
I can see that pushing bedtime back will be easy enough - I'm not sure how I'm going to push waketime back though! Ah well, I'm just going to play it by ear, see what happens
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