Does anyone else use Fitbit to track their sleep?

[NameChangeyMcChangerson]

Just curious to see what it shows you and whether it matches with how you feel! I have an 8 week old who had a crap night last night and I'd have said I got about two/three hours broken sleep and then a nice little lie-in from 7 to 8 while DH took the baby - but Fitbit says I got (albeit it very broken!) 7+ hours! All the other mums of babies I know say they get less than 5 hours - are we all getting a bit more than we think? Or do I actually have a better sleeper than I think and should stop moaning?!

I use the Alta and find it surprisingly accurate. I agree with PP that you are feeling exhausted because it is such broken sleep.

I don’t want to put too much in this, but I’ve always been able to function better on less sleep than many people. After I started sleep tracking, I noticed that even if my overall sleep ranged quite a bit, my deep sleep was usually 1+ hr. Even if I only had four hours of sleep that night. I wonder if this is making me feel more well rested.

This is an average night for me, I am now chronically exhausted after sleeping like this for over a year and a half

I think after a while your body ‘forgets’ how to sleep normally- we’ve had 2 babies who wake every night, the oldest is 6, the youngest now nearly 3 and it’s only in the last few months that he has slept through even a couple of nights a week. It takes a while of believing they will sleep before the parents stop waking, listening, checking for them, so realistically we’ve had over 6 years of disturbed sleep. After so long of coping without much, I think i’ve had to retrain myself, and still have more work to do, to get more deep sleep.

Not as such, I do wear it in bed though so I can see the time if I wake up (can't see my alarm clock without glasses).

I mistrust it as pretty well every morning it says I have done 50-60 steps before waking (I go to bed before midnight and don't think I sleepwalk).

Mine was useless. It said i slept 8 hours one night with a couple of restless times.
I was awake vomiting for 3 hours. And I was on the phone to work at 4.30am but fitbit said I was asleep.

I was going to ask if there was anything that promoted deep sleep.

I am so exhausted some days that I don’t drive as the world appears to be tilting and spinning all at the same time.

Been to the doctors twice and all they do is print of a load of stuff that I had already read on the internet and I already do.

I swear this all started when I went through the menopause.
Used to sleep fantastically

That's interesting sock - yours seems to do 'restless' when mine does 'light sleep' and so it doesn't count it for you! Does yours measure heart rate? Because I think that's what mine mostly relies on.

Although definitely not 100% accurate, I find it gives me a pretty good indication. If I wake up exhausted, I know when I check it’s because very little deep sleep. I find it interesting to see how alcohol effects me too. And also my weight! As soon as I get over a certain weight I start waking up loads more.

Here’s a fairly typical night for me

@NameChangeyMcChangerson no, mine doesn't do heart rate. I think mine is quite basic Fitbit