It's confusing enough for adults to go through a 7 hour time change, for babies it's total chaos. We had a whole plan for how we would adjust our son's schedule and get him to sleep through the night. It didn't work, at all. The first night he woke up to play in the middle of the night, thinking he had just taken a nap and wasn't ready for another one for 4 hours. Then in the morning he slept for 6 hours.
The second night we put him to sleep a bit later, hoping he's be tired and sleep for longer. Didn't work. He woke up screaming at 2:45AM. After playing with him for an hour we were so tired that we decided to take him for a walk so he'd fall asleep. That didn't work. After walking for an hour, we gave up and took him to the park to play. It was kind of fun playing in the park at 5AM, I hope we didn't wake up any of the neighbors. We hoped the playing would tire him out and then we walked for about another hour and went home. He still didn't go to sleep until 6:45.
The next few days we got desperate and started keeping him up until midnight, which worked ok and gave us a good 6 hours of sleep. Every day we moved his bedtime forward a bit and finally on Wednesday he slept from 8:30-8:00. Last night he went to sleep at 7 and woke up at 6 this morning, which is a good sleep for him, but too early for us to wake up, so once again we're exhausted. Thank G-d for Shabbos!
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