Which would you rather, broken nights or ridiculously early mornings?

[TheGoddessBlossom]

Both my kids go to bed early, and sleep very solidly, but are both up at 5.30am, sometimes 6am. I think I prefer this to getting up in the night, but sometimes, when I have been up for 2 hours already, brekkie is done and cleared away and my sons have already watched two hours of TV and it's still only 8am, I wonder............

[Hilllary]

oh early mornings

[Hulababy]

Broken nights, or later nights, are better for me. Hate getting up early.

DD tends to sleep for 11-12 hurs ragrless of when she goes to bed. So if I fancy a lie in at the weekend, she goes to bed later

[missgriss]

Broken nights for me. Waking up at 5.30am would be hellish for me

[ScottishThistle]

Early mornings! < says she who was up at 1am & 5am!>

[KTeePee]

Early mornings here too - I'm not actually a morning person by nature (but my kids seem to be ) so I've had to force myself to go to bed earlier than I really want to in order to cope - but being woken in the night is worse (well when it's been going on for 3 years it is)

[kittypants]

id prefer early morning.we have both here.
dd gets up at 5am
ds1-8am
ds2 up all night then up for day at 6am

[fryalot]

Always hated getting up early, but dd2 is a v. bad sleeper and we've had all three for nearly three years.

She recently slept through the night about five times, and I had some totally unbroken nights sleep, and I felt absolutely fab the next day (even though it was after midnight before I went to bed, and I was up at 6 - sometimes earlier)

She's started waking up again, so am back to late nights, broken nights and early mornings

[WednesdayAdams]

I truly feel for you girls when I read this kind of post. My little one is 1 year old and has slept from the last 6 months from 8pm to 7 am.uninterrupted.

Is this normal?

[beansprout]

We have 5am start but at least you can work round that by going to bed early. I can't always get back to sleep so broken sleep is a killer for me!

[kittypants]

wednesday adams!my ds slept brilliantly till 8 months then stopped with a big fat full stop.
hes currently in cot supposedly napping but i can hear him chatting.

[WednesdayAdams]

Wednesday Adams- a cinematic reference here.

It is the daughter's name in the film "The Adams family" played by Christina Ricci.

a bit dark, a bit gothic... a bit like me!

[shonaspurtle]

Broken nights - I can always get back to sleep but I've never been an early morning person, even as a child. When ds was new I used to feed, go back to bed with him, feed go back to bed with him sometimes until midday.

Wednesday. Are you deliberately winding us up

[fryalot]

dd1 always slept fine, from about 7pm to about 7am from quite early, and had no problems with her at all.

ds sleeps fine, he'll go a good 12 hours in his cot, on his own - no problem.

dd2 sleeps with us, she won't go in her own bed, if we put her there after she's asleep, she wakes up and screams (thereby waking up dd1 and ds). So we put her in our bed, where she only wakes up two or three times a night (she has nightmares and night terrors)

So, yes, wednesday, your dc is normal, or as normal as 2 out of my 3

[moopymoo]

well ideally id sleep from about now till next weekned, but failing that..would raterh get up early, its broken sleep that the killer imo. and going to bed about 10mins after kids means plenty sleep really. (ten mins requisite adult time, can fit a lot in

[WednesdayAdams]

No I would never do that to anyone. Not in my temperament to be like that!

I sometimes feel compelled to read your stories as it is soooo different to my reality. Sometimes i miss that my dd does not need me to go down to sleep... i just plonk her in the cot and that's it ... she's gone....

FYI- i did CC when she was 5 months!

in anwer to the opening question I woudld say EARLY MORNINGS!

[BikeBug]

early mornings. It's the broken sleep that's the killer for me, not the amount. I feel so much better even getting up at 5.30 if ds has managed a decent block of sleep in the night. Sadly, he usually only sleeps in 2-3 hour blocks, so I do too

[chocolatte]

lol moopy! Early mornings for me. Cant get back to sleep easily when I wake. Use the time to Worry about everything

There is a breastfeeding curfew btwn the hours of 8pm and 6am in our house so dd wakes up at 6am on the dot.

[belgo]

Broken nights can be solved a lot easier then early mornings.

[TootyFrooty]

We have both. I'd take early mornings any day. Our mornings generally start at 4.30/5 but I'd give anything to get rid of the night wakings.

[yomellamoHelly]

Have early mornings at mo despite all my best efforts at blackout, night feed to make sure he's not desperately hungry etc.... Seems like ds2's clock is just set differently Wakes up ds1 (who shares a room) every morning. Am hoping he'll grow out of it one day. Ds2 is miserable by 8am.

[gillhowe]

Think that i would prefer early mornings - with possibly the option for someone else to deal with them once in a while...

We have both at the moment, but i used to get up early for work.

[Tortington]

i would rather do a feed around 12 - 1am than get up early

i hate morning.

[Tortington]

and then the day is soooooooo long, lonley and monotanous.

[maisym]

early mornings - broken nights you feel rubbish all the time.

[cruisemum1]

i've jsut recoverd from monthgs of broken nights which were utterly miserable. being awake when everyone else in the house is sleeping soundly . now I am faced with ridiculously early mornings whcih are yukky too but not as yukky. i just get resentful when i look at the clock and i have been up, had breakfast, got ds and i washed and dressed and it is only 6:30am . I am hoping it is just a phase......