Kids crying, tummies rumbling. What is wrong??.
Adjusting to the change in time to start/end Daylight Savings is not as easy as turning your clock forward/ back an hour. For this reason, I do not believe you should expect babies or children to adjust in a single day.
In my experience allow a week to adjust. Even better, if you have young children and minimal early morning commitments then a two week time frame is optimum.
Start by taking your family back/forward in time by five minutes a day if you have two weeks, or ten minutes per day if you only have a week available. Older children will adjust okay within a week but babies prefer a longer time period.
Focus on your wake up time and bedtime for the first few days. Adjust by five/ten minutes backwards/forwards accordingly. Then a few days later, as well as wake up and sleep times, adjust breakfast and lunch by five/ten minutes too. Finally, adkust lunch times and any snack times. And if there are any daytime naps they can be adjusted along the way with meal time adjustments.
So, day by day go forward/back by five/ten minutes in time on these various occasions. And then you will wake up on the morning where everyone else is totally in chaos with their routines life will continue oh so smoothly for you!!
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