The end of daylight saving time can be a curse for the working mom. You already have to get up earlier than your child to shower, prepare lunch/bottles/diaper bag, make breakfast, get everyone dressed and be to work on time. When the clock changes on November 1, your child will be waking one hour earlier, eating into your morning ritual and making it that much harder to get everything done. She’ll also be off her regular schedule and need your help to settle into the new time. And if she is already having sleep issues, there is no better time than now to get her sleeping on track.

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Why worry about sleep? Because lack of sleep jeopardizes your child’s and your health and can affect your productivity. A new report in Sleep suggests a relationship between short sleep and cardiovascular disease in women (more than in men) and shows that sleep deprivation during a mom’s postpartum period may develop into insomnia and depression. It can also have some of the same hazardous effects on driving as being drunk! For your child, sleep deprivation has been shown to lead to obesity, depression, behavioral problems, illnesses, and more difficulty learning.

So helping your baby to sleep better will actually help you both. Here are strategies to handle the time change and five techniques to help your child sleep better:

1.   Time Change – You have three options for handling the time change: First, you and your child can immediately follow the new time once the clock changes. You both will adjust in a few days. This option is good if your child can go with the flow. Second, you can start a few days earlier and move your child’s bedtime 15 minutes later every night for four days. By the day of the time change, he will be back to his normal schedule. This is great for early risers. Third, you can wait until the day of the time change and adjust your child’s schedule over the next few days, making bedtime gradually later so he has time to adjust. This option might take slightly longer, but it works well for children who don’t do well being too tired.