Time Zones x Short Travel x Baby Routine Changes

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Anonymous User

1 month ago

My wife and I are flying for the first time with our 4-month-old. We're going from California to the east coast on a Thursday (leave midday PT, but land after 9pm ET), spending all day Fri/Sat out there, and then flying home Sunday morning (home by midday PT). Our LO is very structured already. 11+ hours of sleep overnight, 4 x 4 hour feeding with 7+oz bottles, consistent nap windows, etc. We know the airplane days will be a mess and are going to change up feed patterns, but what would others do on Friday + Saturday? Keep him on west coast time (which would be better for us during and after...)? Rip the bandaid off and flip to ET?

Anonymous

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1 month ago

First off,@Dan Eidell

amazing that your boy is getting 11 hours of sleep. I would have killed for that!! We’ve never done the CA to east coast flight but we did take our two kids from NYC to London and we kept them on an NYC schedule which was actually perfect becuase we could do fun late dinners in London with our kids, put them down at midnight and then they would sleep till noon. We ended up getting more sleep doing that too because we could sleep in (but it did completely kill the mornings). After three years of sleep deprivation, it was worth it! Good luck with the travel! And let us know if you need any airplane tips. At 4 months, it shouldn’t be too bad. It’s when they start crawling when it becomes a real disaster 😅

Anonymous

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1 month ago

Hah thanks! Yeah we are now evangelists for the sleep book we used. Fast, early, and not traumatic for us or the baby! Keeping times in place is clubhouse leader right now for sure...

Anonymous

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1 month ago

I found that once we successfully sleep trained our baby we became so rigid around sleep schedules because we were traumatized by the months of sleep deprivation. So doing a big trip was super anxiety inducing. But we always found that it was never that bad.