What to do/say at night instead of "you can nurse when the sun comes up"

[sparklett]

DS is 2 1/2 and we night weaned a few months ago. Our golden rule since that time has been that DS can nurse in the morning as soon as the sun comes up. Well, since yesterday's time change, the sun now comes up an hour early! oops.

Is there some sort of clock that lights up or something similar that DS can use as his new cue? Any other ideas??

[sparklett]

Anyone?

[GoBecGo]

Slightly different but when i was a toddler i would get u at like 5am every morning and when i was about your kid's age my mum go me an alarm clock (which was a rosster and had a volume control) and told me i could get up when the rooster crowed. Then she set it and since i wasn't really able to read the time for another 18months or so i never realised that she set it forward an hour for the weekends

Maybe you could get him a cute, not-too-loud boobie alarm that lets him know when he can nurse? I'm SURE there are alarm clocks which just light up as an option to the noisy alarm too, maybe you can google?

[ishyfishie]

I was expecting a battle with nightweaning my dd (who was nursing every 2 hours all night!), but I phrased it as, "The nursies are going night-night, just like you," and then if she asked during the night, "No, it's not time for nursies yet, it's not morning." At first, "morning" was 4 am. Then I was able to slowly push it back to 5, then 6, then 7...maybe a change every few days, I think. She was 23 months at the time and accepted it really easily, so I guess she was ready! She wasn't able to tell the time and we keep our room very dark, so it's hard to tell when the sun is up anyway, so me just soothing her back to sleep and saying "not morning yet!" was enough to keep it until a time when I was willing to start waking up.

[Meems]

Yeah, the whole "in the morning" thing didn't work so great w/ DD. i ended up telling her she couldn't nurse in the morning until mommy was awake and had a cup of coffee You know what? It worked!

[pbjmama]

When the night light turns off. When the clock points at the 7. When mom gets out of bed. Tune into what your lo responds to, something in her natural process of the day.

[LeahG]

We have a night light and kids alarm clock that has a sleeping bunny and an awake bunny. You can set the time the bunny wakes up. The light basically moves from the sleeping side to the awake side. We are planning to use it when we night wean as we have block out blinds. I think it is made in Europe by a company called Kid Sleep. So it might not work in the states.

[Baby_Cakes]

Originally Posted by Meems

Yeah, the whole "in the morning" thing didn't work so great w/ DD. i ended up telling her she couldn't nurse in the morning until mommy was awake and had a cup of coffee You know what? It worked!

I like this!

[kcovert]

I haven't tried these myself, but I've heard that these work well - or even just a nightlight on a timer. (I'm researching nightweaning options myself)

http://www.goodnitelite.com/index.php

http://www.amazon.com/My-Tot-Clock-C...7682768&sr=8-1

[blizzard_babe]

I'm running into the opposite problem... We're fast approaching the time of year when it gets light at... um... 11 am? And the sun goes down again at about 4. "No mum-mums when it's dark" seems a bit draconian.

[Owen'nZoe]

We do an alarm clock here, too. It is actually my alarm clock that I set 20 minutes before I need to get DS1 up for school. DS2 wakes up when it goes off, we nurse 20 minutes, then I get up. Works perfectly. And I, too, set it later on the weekend - he doesn't notice.

[sparklett]

Originally Posted by blizzard_babe

I'm running into the opposite problem... We're fast approaching the time of year when it gets light at... um... 11 am? And the sun goes down again at about 4. "No mum-mums when it's dark" seems a bit draconian.

Now THAT'S funny!

Thanks, everyone, for your ideas! I think we'll give some sort of clock a try...

I think toddlers and their families should be officially exempted from time changes!

[mommy2two babes]

I just got blackout blinds for our room.

[Shanny2032]

The good nite lite is good but very brite so I suggest setting the "moon" to actually go off when you want to get up and the sun one minute later so you can sleep without a bright light all night. HTH

[blueridgewoman]

I cardboarded the windows in my daughter's room last week.

[blizzard_babe]

Originally Posted by sparklett

Now THAT'S funny!

'Specially because I WOH during the day. Unless DH (SAHD) spontaneously begins lactating, he wouldn't get ANY mum-mums at all.

[spirit4ever]

Originally Posted by Meems

Yeah, the whole "in the morning" thing didn't work so great w/ DD. i ended up telling her she couldn't nurse in the morning until mommy was awake and had a cup of coffee You know what? It worked!

oh so funny!!!!