Daylight Time

ended today 4th of Nov, 2007.

The result?
Almost whole of United States set their clocks back by one hour their local time

The Implications?
Chinipie, who gets up at six each morning still and had her biological clock set the same way very obviously unaware of these manual changes in the clocks and the times, got up at five o'clock this morning and started kicking and chirping happily announcing that it was the perfect time to wake up. Dad with a happy smile on his face wrapped himself pulling the comforter up to his head and almost immediately started snoring. That meant it was me who had to start the 25-hour day at 5 o'clock. Almost as soon as she got up, Chinipie moved her bowels and started crying to be cleaned up, making sure that mom doesn't have any remnants of sleep left in her eyes. Momma got up and made a mental note to herself not to let Chinipie sleep early this evening so as to set her clock per the new local timings here. She didn't want Chinipie to get up at 5 every morning for very obvious reasons - first of all, 5?? Please! 6 is a good time but 5 every day is, let's say, too good a time to get up. And second of all, per her DST routine, she used to have her bath at 8:30 every morning because by that time there would be sufficient(i should add golden, for the beautiful winter mornings) sunlight pouring in from our windows. So I had figured out that it was the best time to give her bath and let her enjoy playing in the sun for a while. So, if she gets up at 5 now, it would mean giving her bath quite early, which again would upset her routine. Third of all, as it is she sleeps so less, unlike the other babies, which always keeps me worrying about her proper growth( I have read that for babies over-all, and especially brain, development lots of sleep is required); I do not want her to lose on whatever little time she sleeps soundly. Lastly, we are planning to go on a trip to India where both sets of grandparents and uncles and aunts and not to mention the extended family are waiting eagerly to meet her. Again, in both the journeys when we will lose and gain time and I will have to try to schedule her wake and sleep times so as to get adjusted to the two different countries and two different timezones altogether. So, this is sort of a rehearsal for then. Foolish, it might seem but I want to check how difficult or how easy it's going to be to keep her awake when actually she would just want to nurse herself to sleep

So, in an attempt to reset her routine, I kept my tired and hungry child awake this evening, distracting her with toys, talks, dad's funny faces and every other thing that you can imagine would make a baby happy. As the baby sleeps tonight, momma is keeping her fingers crossed that she gets up at six per the new timings..

wish me all the best!