Daylight Savings Time Sleep Tips with Pampers #DDDivas #DivasSleep #sponsored
This review was made possible by Double Duty Divas and Pampers. I was provided the featured product free of charge to facilitate my review, but all opinions are 100% mine
This week was Daylight Savings!! Secretly it is us mommies favorite time. We get an extra sleep. I teamed up with Pampers to bring you some Daylight Saving Tips for your little one. Having a good night sleep depends on a lot of little things. Staying dry and worm is the main factors. Pampers sent me a pair of PJ’s from the Childrens Place and a package of their Pampers Baby Dry diapers. To make the time change a little easier. (You will get a chance to win a set too!)
About Pampers Baby Dry:
- Available in Sizes 1-6
- Ultra Absorb core to cover up to 95% of overnight loads
- Three layers of Absorbency
- A longer absorbent area
- Snug, Stretchy Sides, Colored Tabs and a Belted design to reassure parents that the diaper will hold!
10 Daylight Savings Sleep Tips for Baby by “The Sleep Lady”, Kim West:
- Many parents I have spoken to dread this time change as their children will be waking up even earlier, and previous early rising issues can become big problems. To help make ensure that your baby’s sleep doesn’t go completely off the rails, make a slow transition. Make a point to slowly adjust your child’s bedtime and naptimes an hour earlier, just 15-30 minutes a day for a few days before daylight savings ends. This way, your child will already be adjusted to the time change. While you’re adjusting naps and bedtime, make sure that you also adjust mealtimes in 10-15 minute increments to help ease the transition.
- For children under 4 years old, its essential that we make naps a priority this time change. Quality nighttime sleep is dependent upon good daytime sleep. Make sure that your children are well-napped during the day so that when the time change takes effect having a later-feeling bedtime isn’t as much of an issue. Between naps, make sure that your children are exposed to plenty of natural light; open the curtains, take an afternoon walk, or just play outside. To help your children adjust, about 30-45 minutes before naps and an hour before bedtime. Close the curtains, dim the lights and follow your soothing sleep routine. If you find that your baby is still having trouble with sleep even after a good day of naps, you may need to temporarily add a third late-afternoon nap, of no more than 45 minutes to help make sure that your baby isn’t overtired at bedtime.
- To help your baby sleep more soundly, consider installing blackout curtains and using a sound machine.Although the days are getting shorter, there may still be some natural light present, especially in the morning as well as noise when you put your baby to bed. To mitigate these, install blackout curtains and use a sound machine to help buffer outside light and sound. Black out shades are great for children with early rising issues, which is often a problem after the fall time change, especially if your child was already getting up before 6:00 a.m.
- While preparing for the time change (and after), use dramatic wake up to help your children adjust to the change. It’s entirely possible that after the change your baby may be waking earlier than normal. If this is the case, keep your baby’s room dark and quiet, and use a gentle method to encourage your child to go back to sleep; you may need to check on your baby and reassure that all is well, and remind them that it’s not quite time to wake up. At this point, you can either sit on a chair near the door or leave the room and do timed checks. If your child is over 2.5 years old, I recommend that you purchase a toddler clock or wake up alarm that signals them when its time to get up and start the day, as this will help your toddler stay in bed (and hopefully fall back asleep) until at least 6:00 a.m., at which time you open the blinds and make a big deal of “good morning”. Make sure that you expose your baby to lots of natural light first thing in the morning to help reset his circadian rhythm to coincide with the new time.
- Watch your baby’s wakefulness windows. Children have a limited window of wakefulness (the time that they can be awake and alert without meltdowns) between naps and bedtimes. Make sure that you watch your baby for sleepy cues carefully. Make sure that you’re changing your baby’s diaper right before your child goes into the crib for naps or bedtime. Keeping your child dry will help to prevent unnecessary night awakenings, and help to ensure a happy, well-rested baby the next day.
- Get outside. It’s getting colder, so bundle everyone up and take a morning walk, just 20 or 30 minutes to make sure that you and your baby get some sunshine, which will help your circadian rhythm adjust to the time change. If you can’t manage a morning walk, make sure that the blinds are open as you start your day, and keep them open up to 45 minutes before nap and bedtimes to help your child adjust to the time change.
- Stick to your flexible schedule. If you always have breakfast at 8:00 a.m., then keep your schedule, but make sure that you are following it according to the time change. You can start slowly adjusting your daily schedule forward in 10-15 minute increments 4-5 days before the time change. So if you normally have lunch at 11:30, on Wednesday, have lunch at 11:40, on Thursday, move lunch to 11:50 and so on. The same goes for naps and bedtimes. The idea is that when the time change takes effect your child’s circadian rhythm, or internal clock will already be in sync with the change.
- The end of daylight savings is a good time to make sure that your child’s bedtime is age-appropriate.Infants and babies do best with a bedtime between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. Later bedtimes have shown to have a negative effect on children’s attitudes and their ability to focus, and can result in instances of early rising. If you find that your baby has been going to bed too early or too late, take advantage of the time change to gradually shift bedtime (back or forward in 15-30 minute increments over the next week).
- To ensure that your children know when it’s time to sleep, rely on your established soothing bedtime routine. Routines are comforting for children, so make sure that you keep your baby’s routine the same, although you will be starting it a bit later due to the time change. Make sure that you are changing your baby’s diaper right before you tuck them into the crib to help prevent wet diapers at night and unnecessary nighttime awakenings. If your baby often has diapers that leak during the night and require a change, please make sure to use overnight diapers that can keep your baby dry for up to 12 hours to help limit your baby’s sleep disturbances.
- If you do have a child who is getting up before 6:00 a.m., make sure that you respond to early risings quickly and consistently. Although you may sail through the time change, some babies will have trouble with early rising for a few days. Respond to these awakenings quickly, gently resettling your baby so that sleep comes easier. Be careful to make sure that your baby is actually awake before you go help, however, as you don’t want to create a new sleep crutch which would cause your baby to rely on you to get back to sleep. Remember to utilize dramatic wake up once 6:30 a.m. rolls around!
My Thoughts:
Just a couple of days before I got my package from Pampers I had a surprise visitor in the middle of the night. It was 1 am to be exact! I picked her up to only discovered she was wet through. Her clothes were wet and her diaper was heavy. No wonder she woke up. I would have too!! Can you imagine how miserable that was. I changed her and put her back in bed. Now with pampers she sleeps through the night again. All dry and warm! Just what she needed to get through the night that was an hour longer!
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I worked
I slept 🙂
I did wash
I slept.
I honestly didn’t do anything with it. I should have gotten some more sleep.
Thanks for the giveaway! =)
We were vacationing in Vegas so we used it well!
I had a newborn so I didn’t even get to sleep. boo
I read some the end of my book.
I tried to sleep, but instead baby and me had some extra snuggle time in the morning. 🙂
I slept.
I got some additional sleep with my extra hour!
this pregnant mama sleeps! although my toddler had other ideas. thankfully dad was home 🙂
I slept for that extra hour!
i slept for that extra hour
We slept in for our extra hour
Went to sleep cuz my kids dont quite go along with the extra hour thing!
had an extra long day! LOL
Sleep longer.
Sleep!
I slept in for my extra hour
I chatted with a friend
Slept, of course! 🙂
I wanted to sleep with my extra hour but instead I woke up with my natural body clock and watched tv!
I took a nice long walk with my dogs.
Change the clocks
I slept in for my extra hour.
I used my extra hour to sleep and then I had to go to work!
I took advantage of the daylight savings time change and slept an extra hour.
We slept an hour more. 🙂
No extra hour my Boys woke up at 6 instead of 7 lol
I slept and relaxed with my extra hour – loved it!
Oh I SLEPT that extra hour! =)
I slept my extra hour!
Miraculously – I slept!!!!
I slept the extra hour.