🍂 2025 Daylight Saving Guide 🍂

Here we go again!

It is almost time to ‘fall back’

and turn your clocks back 1 hour on 📆 Sunday, November 2nd

A friendly reminder that this daylight saving business, it’s a mini jet-leg event

which confuses everyone’s internal clock and takes some time to get used to.

🧸 Will something bad happen if you don’t do anything? Nope. 

🌙 Will there be lasting negative effects if you don’t do anything? Nope. 

💤 Will it make things a little easier on your babe if you transition things? Yes. 

When we “fall back” 1 hour we gain one hour.

7pm becomes 6pm, so when the 7pm new time

rolls around it will actually feel like 8pm. Mental gymnastics right?!

To help you scootch your child's schedule and make the jet-lag symptoms

a little easier to deal with --->

I've put together a step by step PDF with example schedules for you,

so I invite you to check out the plan below

(This is out early because there are a couple

different options and depending which one you want to do,

you can start a little earlier in the week).

🍂 CLICK HERE to download your 2025 Daylight Saving Guide

Plan #1  “Slow and steady start”

This one is very gradual, so you could start this

1 week ahead of time. If you can’t start for another

couple days, no worries this can still be effective if you

start at least by Thursday.

The plan is:

— you are simply pushing wake time, naps and

bedtimes 10 minutes LATER every day. Very small increments

each day until you reach your end-goal schedule by the last day-

so when we move back 1 hour, the next day’s schedule is no problem :)

If you give yourself the whole week… you move bedtime each

night by 10 minutes. Here is an example:

Plan #2 “Go with the flow”

This option is great for people with older children and allows

you to forget about the time change and just go with the flow of the new times.

This option only works for some families because it requires

a certain level of schedule flexibility throughout the day.

Your child will wake up an hour earlier and go to bed an hour earlier.

Here is an example:

Plan #3 “Split the Difference” 

This is a faster version of option #1 if you don’t have all week

to gradually move schedules and only want to work over the weekend!

So Saturday you do your normal schedule, Sunday you wake

your babe half an hour later (it’ll look like half an hour earlier).

Then if you keep wake windows the same, everything else

through the day shifts, with a half an hour later bedtime.

Then the next day, you stick to your old schedule times

(even though they are an hour earlier). This gives your babe some

time to adjust but it’s not as drawn out as option #1.

Remember you can download the important bits from this blog HERE

(and it's done up in a nice PDF doc you can put on the fridge)

Again, it’s not the end of the world if you don’t end up doing any of this.

The jet lag effects don’t last super long - we get used to

it and so will your child. These are just some options if you feel

like trying it out.

🚨 Friendly reminder!

Time changes are like any other change that will effect sleep -- they can cause frustrations and tension. Lead with grace and patience with yourself and your family. Once everyone’s schedule and routines get back into the swing of things it will all fall back into place.

I hope you have a great rest of your day and PLEASE don't hesitate to reach out if you need any support putting this plan into action.

Your Paediatric Sleep Consultant

💚 Marina