How much sleep do you get? And is it enough?

[Ellabella989]

Everyone I know (including myself) seems to be permanently exhausted. I get about 6 hours a night and always feel like I’ve been hit by a bus when I wake up. Definitely need to start going to bed earlier but it’s so difficult to get time to myself without staying up late.

I see it as reverse lie- ins! I regularly go to bed at 9.30 these days as with kids, it seems the only way to guarantee sleep

7 hours, but severely broken. Between an 8month old waking up for a bf and a 3yr old who just a wakes up it can be anything from 4 - 12 wake ups a night. Permanently exhausted.

About 6 here too. And often a broken 6. I'm a LP.
I struggle massively with nausea, aches and a bad memory but one of my dc's doesn't go to bed well so I don't get to relax until gone 10pm. Luckily I don't have to drive to work 🤷‍♀️.

Do you have kids OP?

I get about 7 hours but very broken with multiple wake ups between 20 month old who wakes when she loses her dummy in the night and 6 month old baby who still wakes at least twice for a bottle. Baby is up for the day at 6.30

I’ve got no young ones to blame but I tend to head to bed around 11pm and up with the alarm for work at 6.15am (average times). I know I should be trying to get to bed earlier but need the evening to unwind after work and having older children means I have to wait for them to settle around 9pm so still want a bit of alone time before I go to bed.

The school holidays have been bliss because I’ve done fewer hours at work and even when I go to work I can get up a little later as no school run first.

I don't get much and I'm the same as you - I tend to stay up too late just to get a bit of time and peace. I've given myself a rule tho, I can stay up as late as I like weekends (within reason, kids are still up 6.30 on a Saturday!) But I go to bed really early with a book on week nights when I can. I'm still shattered but it's not too bad

7 to 8. My kids are teens though. 6 hours is nowhere near enough and I'd feel exhausted on that too.

In bed for 7 hours but woken up around 4 or 5 times with kids. Maybe get 6 hours of broken sleep most nights, sometimes less.

During the week I get roughly 6 -7 hours a night but at weekends I make up for it with afternoon naps, they are the best

7-8 hours (usually)unbroken sleep most nights. When my dc were tiny this is the kind of sleep I fantasised about and I'm certainly sleeping much more than I have ever before in my adult life. I still feel tired sometimes, or more weary but tbh my mh isn't great at the moment and I feel like no amount of sleep is enough.

I go to bed stupidly early a lot of the time because I am terrible with no sleep, and my kids have only just started (mostly) sleeping through after 5 years. So i get about 7.5 hours and I wake up naturally between 5 and 5.30am now.

I average 5.5 hours of broken sleep and no it's not enough.

6 hours. I don't sleep well and am always knackered for work.

I normally go to sleep around midnight and am always awake before six.

Even at weekends/evenings I get up early. Years of this pattern has taken its toll.

About 6 but broken. Not so bad nowadays but 4 years of dd sleeping pretty badly has taken it's toll and I wake up very early naturally now too.

I dont understand why people, who have to get up early, don't just go to bed early!

I go to bed at about 10.30 because I have to get up at 6.30

Although recently I've been going to bed at 9 due to first trimester pregnancy making me exhausted.

6.5 hrs - yes

It's very boring to lie in bed unable to lie asleep hence no point in going to bed early.

I get anywhere betw. 2 & 10 hrs/sleep a night, bit over 6 is probably avg. Broken, terminal insomnia... I guess it's enough coz I feel ok on as little as 2 hrs sleep. But I think I'd be much happier if I got 8-9 hrs. 8-9 hrs/avg used to happen before family, cats or work with strict hrs.

7 to 8 hours. I really need to be in bed early to feel human in the morning. I'd say it's enough but often feel exhausted. Think that's just looking after young kids, housework, work etc.

I usually get a good 8 hours of unbroken sleep. Youngest is 5 so sleeps all night and the other 3 are a good few years older so never wake needing me at night. Last night I got less than 6 though as I went to bed around 12.30am ish but dh woke up with cramp at 5.55am and I couldn’t get back to sleep. Had a nice 2.5 hours to myself before the 5 year old woke up so it’s not all bad.

I’m not sure I’ve ever slept well. I’ve never woken up feeling refreshed and ready for the day. Even as a kid, my DSis would be up at 6am and I’d have to be dragged out of bed! I usually go to bed around 10pm and fall asleep fine but then wake up loads in the night. I wake up around 8am. So it’s 10 hours in bed but I think very little of it is quality sleep.

I average 5-6.5h during the week and find it really hard to get much more. Up against it because I'm on my own with two small kids during the week (DP works away), I work almost f/t and we all have to leave the house at 7am each day. I'm recovering from a life threatening illness too and feel so bloody compromised the whole time!

The knock on effects are plain to see - anxiety about work as I worry my concentration will be poor, raised heart rate, and making poor food choices because I'm tired, which in turn leads to weight gain. Bit of a mess really

I need about 8 hours to feel good and usually get it (night wakings from my 3 year old excepted!)

I also go to bed when the children do. Ds 16 months cot is in my room so I read with my torch on my phone. I'm a big reader and it's my way to relax. I also struggle with insomnia but at least I'm resting. Ds is a good sleeper so I get enough sleep/rest.

I get about 6 hours normally, of unbroken sleep, but once or twice a week I try to go to bed early, so I can get 8 hours.

6-7 hours. Always tired. Often nap in the afternoon at weekends.