To really struggle to get up at 6am

[OhNoNotPooAgain]

I know IABU as it's not really that early, but I really struggle! I have to be up at 6 to get myself and DS ready to go to school at 7:15 otherwise it's a disaster. However, despite numerous alarms I always always over sleep till 6:45 and it's a total nightmare. How do good early risers do it?

I try to be in bed by 10, but after the kids are finally quiet in bed by 8pm, but then I need to deal with dinner, housework, odd jobs, school for filling, admin, and I struggle to stick to it. I have a couple of health issues which the doctor has said means I absolutely need to make sure I get sufficient sleep. I've also been told I need to exercise for these health issues (diabetes and depression) but can't see how to fit it in.

If anyone has any tips I'm all ears!!! I'm sick of starting the morning running around stressed.

I used to put my alarm clocks or mobile phone with the alarm on the other side of my bedroom so that I had to physically get out of bed to turn the alarm off. I found that once I was out of bed it was easy not to get back into it

Can you delay jobs where possible till the weekend (and get them done on a Sat morning, maybe get a baby sitter or cleaner for a couple of hrs so that they get done quickly?)

Stop drinking caffeinated drinks - I find that I stay up trying to get stuff done if I've had non-decaf tea - if I don't drink it, I feel properly tired and go to bead at a reasonable hr.

Set your alarm just for the time you need to get up. Drink a pint of water before bed - you'll have to get up to pee once you are awake!

If you are having your dinner separately can you batch cook and freeze so that your dinner is defrosting in the microwave while you do bed and bath?

Oh, and do everything you can the night before (uniforms and underwear laid out, your own clothes on a hanger on the wardrobe door, all lunches made and in fridge ready to be dropped into schoolbags, schoolbags at the front door).

I have to be up at 6 so me and DS1 and 2 (and DH!) are out the door for just gone 7. The only way we manage is to make all lunches the night before, set out all our outfits (so no 'aaargh where's a pair of tights without a ladder?!' panics) and pack our bags the night before too. It's a faff but means I sleep better knowing it's done (well, I will when DS2 stops waking about 4 times a night!).

Do you mean you sleep through the alarms?

Get a clock like this one. It wakes you with daylight before the noise of the alarm. Works like a charm for me;
www.lumie.com/collections/all

Ooh fab suggestions! Yes, I sleep through the alarms. DH works till late (8/9pm) so the deal is he sleeps later and gets my DD ready and takes her to nursery on his way to work (he leaves at 9am). He gets really grumpy with any loud alarms waking him early. I've thought about sleeping in the DC's room with DS, and have DD in with him, but he's not keen at all on that idea.

Yanbu, I feel like a hangover, nauseous and really struggle with waking up early. I'm in awe of 'morning people'. I'm usually normal by 9am.

I wish. My alarm goes off at 6.30, but usually by that time I'm at the kitchen table with a cup of tea. I'm awake every day by about 5.30 since the clocks went forward. Even Saturdays and Sundays. It does my head in.

I'd quite like to be a night owl, but it seems I just ain't built that way.

I suggest getting really shit curtains so the sunrise wakes you. Works for me. Even with a dark sheet over them I'm still up by 6.15.

Sigh.

Do you have space for a piece of exercise equipment at home? I always find i sleep better (and therefore need less) when i'm regularily exercising but with DC it was hard to fit in a run or bike ride. I bought a foldable treadmill off eBay and have been able to get exercise whilst not leaving the kids home alone.

During the week i have a 6.45am alarm to make sure DD leaves for school at 7.30am. I'm wondering how you manage to fill 1¼ hours? Do you take your DS to school?

I try to make sure that the DD and DS have everything ready and by the door the night before so it's just a matter of breakfast, teeth cleaning, getting dressed and out the door. DS gets up at 7.30am and leaves for school at 8.15am.

In the end i've just learnt to cope with it though i'll never be a natural early riser. It doesn't help that that i never get to bed before midnight!

Try a Lumie light, and put it on the other side of the room. It gradually gets lighter and lighter, so wakes up up more gently. It gets really bright, and you'd struggle to sleep through it. It's made ALL the difference to me getting up at 6am every day for work. I actually feel like getting up now, where I've really struggled with it for years

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