Change is not easy

If any of you had followed us in changing your baby's schedule, I hope it went well for you =)

It was definitely not easy for us -- there were tense moments when we wanted to blame each other, when we questioned the usefulness of the change, and when we wanted to give up.

Jan was not used to the schedule during the first few days, and after we put her to bed at 7:30pm, she would wake up exactly half-an-hour later, thinking that she just had her usual 3rd nap of the day.  She would then be ALL READY to play...and it was very difficult getting her back to sleep again; it took an hour or more before she relented.

Thank God, now she has gotten used to the new schedule!  The good of this new arrangement is that we are free to do our stuff after 7:30pm, and we can eat our dinner at leisure.  The bad is something we have not tackled head-on yet--how will it be when we have to be out till late and she won't get home till about 10 or 11pm?  Will she be able to start her sleep outside?  Or will she be super-cranky through the night?  *sigh* don't worry too much lah, let's do it one step at a time.  The bottomline is that we are happy that she is getting more sleep, and already we are seeing that she is less cranky during daytime now.

Can this work for you?  It's really for you, your spouse and all the care-takers to decide.  I think what is important is for all to agree that it is something that you want to do, and expect a rough transition period during the first week.