To ask: Following your dc when did you get your nights sleep back again?

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Just that tbh. At what age were your dc when you were not exhausted and managed to get a nights sleep and how did your mornings go especially if you worked and had to get everyone dressed, showered and fed?
I'd also appreciate if you mentioned if you had a H or DP that did their bit or not?

Pretty much always done mornings myself.

Good nights sleep from toddlers upwards really. They're 10&8 now and I nag them, but they basically get themselves ready in the mornings/pack their own bags/make bed etc.

About now - DS is 4, DD is 2. DS is a notoriously early riser though, always has been. So we're usually all awake by 6.30am. However, coupled with excellent bedtime routine, and early-ish bed times for me and DH, we are finally coming up for air. DH works abroad now but up until very recently was very hands-on and we split morning duties equally. These days I have to be a bit more organised and don't get much down time in the evening as it's largely cleaning up and prepping for the next day.

I think DC1 was about 1 to 1.5yr when I started to feel like we were in a good routine. Showered before he woke, he had breakfast at nursery and I had everything ready in advance. Also silly things like picking out my own clothes the night before and always leaving keys/phone etc in the same place!

Now, more kids down the line, we have periods of things going well and periods of total carnage for a month or so. DH was often already gone when I got out of bed (much earlier riser than the rest of us!).

Mamaduckling, what’s your amazing bedtime routine?

Around about now (DC is 2), though another on the way

I have one who is just three. I get pretty good sleep now but he has never slept past about 7. Mornings are ok but I don’t have any time for me. I just throw on clothes and so I generally look shit all the time.

DS was always a great sleeper, from 8 weeks he slept from 12am-6am which was heaven, could of put him down earlier but Then that would of broke my sleep for a night feed 😂so I just gradually put him to bed earlier. Eventually got him to sleep 8pm-7am I’d say maybe from he was about 1 , this is when he went in his own room. He would sleep in longer so I could get up showered and prep for the day. So ages 1-5yo were fine. He did of course have some weird phases of waking up at 4.30 ready for the daybut these only lasted about 2 weeks at a time. Now he’s 6 and an absolute nightmare to get to bed and then again to wake up in the mornings!

Forgot to add, that mornings are shit now. He doesn’t want to get out of bed. So very rushed breakfast and getting him dressed/ washed off to school. Looking back the earlier years were easier and I do didn’t realise it at the time.

My dc are 4 and 2.6 and they were both going to bed at 7.30 and sleeping until at least 6.30 am by the time they were one (via different paths though!)so we've had evenings and nights for the last year and a half. I'm a SAHM so no advice on busy mornings I'm afraid. Yes, my dp does his fair share and always has, he does far more mornings than me so he can have some time with them before work.

Ds1 is 10, ds2 is 8 and ds3 is four. There was a point, about for about 6 months when I could guarantee a good night's sleep but I was pregnant with ds3 so up all night to pee.

So, if I was being dramatic I would say 10 years and counting but actually getting up now is just toilet runs and the occasional nightmare with ds3 and it's not much disruption.

On the up side, everyone gets up at 6am so we don't have any problem with getting everyone to work and school on time.

DC1 was a good sleeper and I was fine working full time from when he was about 14m. I did all the morning stuff as DP leaves about 7am most days.

DC2 didn't sleep through until she was over two and a half (she was still breastfeeding as well). I was working part-time from when she was 12m. DC1 was at preschool by this point so I was doing school run everyday and dropping the younger child into childcare on my working days. I still did all mornings, unless DP wasn't at work.

I have a two week old 3rd and am not expecting to have a good night's sleep anytime soon

My two are 3 and 5. Both slept through from about 2 years. DS1 has always been a nightmare to get to sleep, still is. He also goes through phases of night waking and crawling into our bed. DS2 is a great little sleeper. He loves his bed and on the rare occasion he wakes in the night, he goes back to sleep no trouble. Both are hard to get up in the morning despite a 7pm bedtime. I get up and ready at around 6.30, then wake the kids. DH and I take a child each and supervise them dressing etc, then all down for breakfast at 7.30 before we leave for the school run. On days that I work, in DS2's nursery, so he comes with me, I get up earlier and he and I leave the house at 7am. He has his breakfast there before the other children arrive, whilst I'm setting up my class for the day.

5 month old twins. They sleep from 7:30pm to 4am (very earliest) or 7am (very latest). Mostly 6am. We have a solid evening routine but mornings are crap and seem to do everything a different way every day. I always look rubbish but am just grateful for the sleep! Husband is really helpful though, just wish he could dress me and put my make up on for me

When DD2 was 18 months I think. She slept through from then. Now DD1 is 7 and DD2 is 3 and they go to bed at 7 and I often have wake them at 7 for school! I've done everything alone since DD2 born as DH died.

One DS, 20m. He's slept through a handful of times but usually he wakes around 12/1 has a quick bf then sleeps with us the rest of the night.
Usually wakes up around 7.30. I'm a SAHM so no rush to get up. My uni day I tend to sneak out before he wakes up (my DM stays round the night before).
He's starting nursery soon so I'm going to have to start getting up early

Each child from around 18mo/2yo.

I’m a SAHM so even though he leaves before they wake up we’ve a decent routine for getting everyone out of the house on time fed, washed, clothed, bags packed. They wake at 7am, I shower at 6am, we’re out the door by 8.30am.

Ds is 5 tends to sleep 8-6:30. Started doing that age 4. Prior to that broken nights sleep. DH and I have always both worked so do 50:50 childcare.

Youngest Dd is 4 months and sleeps through (luck rather than my marvellous parenting ) from 8pm ish to 6 or 7.
In the morning, Dh gives Dd her first bottle while the older one (age 8) gets breakfast and I go in the shower. As long as I'm showered and dressed before DH goes to work I can manage the rest of the day.
I have started setting alarms on my phone to remind the oldest one what she needs to do - e.g getting dressed alarm at 7:50, shoes on alarm at 8:25 and she responds much better to that than me telling her - she reckons I've got less shouty with the alarms on.
I'm lucky that oldest Dd can get her self ready as youngest Dd isn't the biggest fan of being put down so I often end up doing oldest dd's hair while youngest is screeching on her rocking chair.

DS1 slept through from 4 months, DS2 from 7 months. I went back to work full time after both of them when they were 6 months. DH is never around on a morning to help due to his working hours. So I have to get all three of us ready, fed and out by 7.35. It takes military organisation! Luckily they are both good boys now (6 and 1 now)

Meant to add, they are both in bed by 7 and wake up around 6.30-7.00. There’s the odd night of broken sleep with the youngest. But in the whole we have a good routine

This thread is making me very jealous. I have 3. Eldest is 4. None of them have ever slept through and usually take it in turns to wake up. Luckily DH is great with night wakings and doing probably more than his fair share in the morning.