I’m back! I don’t know why but my blog was blocked again in the last few weeks of my stay in China so I couldn’t write any random thoughts.
Anyways, we’ve been back for a couple days now and eegh! – it is always a pain to adjust jetlag coming this way. It’s just harder. My husband and I debated how to do it again, like we do every year. Do we adjust backwards or forwards? IE: do we let them sleep later everyday, or wake them up earlier everyday. So I point him to my blog entry that I wrote last time about adjusting jetlag: http://pj.moretang.com/2009/02/09/adjusting-your-babies-jet-lag/ and we agree to do it my way. We’ll wake them up one hour early each day and pray they sleep an hour early that night.
So far it’s going pretty well. I think partly because we know what to expect and partly because the kids are older now. First night my 2 year old slept from 2 am until 10 am. My 1 year old son has not done as well, waking up in the middle of then night for several hours and breaking up his sleep patterns into several long naps. Finally I decided he needed one long sleep cycle, a good 9 hours and made sure he got that.
I think because I’m not as worried about them not adjusting, I’m also letting them sleep more during the day. I remember part of the worry before is “what if they sleep too much and don’t sleep at night?”. And we push off their nap and push off and push off, until either 1) they can’t take it anymore and crash too early just to wake up in the middle of the night or 2) they are too jittery to have a good nights sleep. So this time it appears they are sleeping the right amount and still sleeping well at night.
A fun chat I had with my husband this morning:
