To ask what time you go to bed and to sleep?

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I feel so tired all the time and I'm stuck between having some down time without the kids and sleep.

I have just been prescribed b12 due to low levels so maybe why I'm feeling so drained.

I have 2 children 1yo and 3yo and they go to bed around 7.30, after that I do a quick tidy up and settle down with dh to watch t.v. or something. We don't usually go to sleep till around 11. I really feel like those few hours to ourselves keep us sane and happy I like to have time without the kids just to relax and feel like getting an early night is losing out on that but I'm really considering settling to sleep about 9.30 as I'm just so tired and getting up is a killer.

We get up at 7 weekdays and 8ish weekends.
How much sleep do you need to feel refreshed?

DDs (5 and 8) go to bed between 6.30 and 7pm.

DH and I go to bed between 9 and 10pm - usually nearer 9pm (around 10pm on a Friday / Saturday).

I read my Kindle in bed and I'm usually asleep by 10pm.

DH gets up at 5am and I get up at 6am. At the weekends we take it on turns to have a lie in, so either up at 6.30am with DD2 or by 9.30am with a 'lay in'.

I feel like I need 8 hours, but even then I'm still tired!

We are all night owls compared to most here.
DSes are two and four and have lights out at 9:30 (I'm running their bath now while they have milk and youngest has reflux medication). They get up between 8 and 8:30. DH and I usually start getting ready for bed just after midnight and get up at 7am weekdays. Weekend nights we'll go up at 1am and the DC will come into our bed when they wake the next morning to snuggle and drowse until 9:30.

I fall asleep quickly and feel good on that amount of sleep if I get no more than one or two quick interruptions. I can otherwise find it hard to sleep again. Extra sleep doesn't seem to help the tiredness from interrupted sleep either. Unfortunately, due to their reflux mine woke every two hours with acid (as soon as their stomach was empty) until thirteen months and fifteen months and had regular wakings until two a breastfeed was often the most effective way of dealing with the pain, so I have spent a lot of time being tired over the last four years and am thrilled to get a few uninterrupted night as sleep as DS2's reflux has improved a lot. The best thing I did for my sleep was to put DS2 on a double futon on the floor so I can sleep mostly in my own bed but also get in with him to settle him and nod off again more quickly. I wish I'd done it much earlier with both, maybe around the 12 month mark.

I go to bed between 11pm and 11.30pm and read for at least half an hour. I get up between 6.30 and 7.

I fall asleep literally straight away but never sleep through the night. I wake at least 3 times a night.

I only ever go to bed earlier if I am ill. I feel sleeping is such a waste of time

DD4 and DD2 are asleep 7.30-8
Both wake up at 7/7.30, although DD2 can go to 8.30 some days!

Husband is in bed by 10 as he is up at 5am but uses weekend to snooze until 10 on Sundays.

I go to bed at 11pm and fall asleep quite quickly and up about 7am. V lucky as i only became a good sleeper after having kids.

DS doesn't go to sleep until 9.30 at the earliest no matter what time he goes up. Sometimes it's a lot later. He wakes at 7-7.30.

This obviously cuts into our evening add there are things we can't do if he's awake and likely to come looking for us if anything sounds too interesting (we learnt that when we tried watching Game of Thrones).

I go to bed about 11. Rarely asleep before 1am, usually later as I don't sleep well or easily.

I'm always tired.

Midnight. I think I should sleep earlier but find I can't fall asleep easily before that despite waking up at 6:30 for work!

Gosh some people get so much sleep - when do you get stuff done? 12-1 for me and up 7. It would be impossible to go earlier

I guess the obvious answer to that question banamarama is that they have less to do than you.

Before I had my baby I would be asleep for 9pm every night. Now it seems to be about 10.30 and up about 7. She wakes around 4 wanting her dummy back which can take half hour to settle her. I'm such a light sleeper though everything wakes me.

The age of ours is irrelevant to the time we go to bed now (they are 17 and almost 13).

My wife sleeps well (lucky lady) and during the week is usually in bed by 10 to 10:30pm and awake at 5:45am.

My sleep is a mess as I've got severe Rheumatoid Arthritis and the pain is exhausting. I usually end up falling asleep in the chair and then either wake up and go to bed before my wife, or she wakes me when she goes up. I can then be up anytime after 2am for painkillers and probably won't get any more sleep after that.

It can't be much fun for my wife having a husband in the chair every evening asleep, but she's lovely, she never complains.

banamarama we obviously have less to do than you. Or we do it at other times.

4 month old is in his cot by 9pm most nights, dh and I go up between 10.30 and 11 depending on what shift he's working, I'm up between 6 and 7 with our son. DH is up between 7 and 8 for work.

My kid wakes up at 5, so I need to go to bed at 8:30/sleep at 9ish to feel like I've had a proper sleep, especially in winter. Do that twice a week and one lie in a weekend till about 9.

I read «the sleep book» last summer (Why we Sleep, dr Matthew Walker) and it pushed us to overhaul our evenings. DC are usually in bed by 9pm, DH and I no longer watch tv or use screens after that. We talk, read books, have a cup of herbal tea and are in bed by 10pm. I’m usually asleep by 10:20pm. I need thé recommended 7.5 to 8 hours, so am usually ok to get up between 6:00 and 6:30am.

We used to do what lots of people do - stay up too late to fit in more «me» time. After reading more about it, for me the health and mental benefits of getting enough sleep far outweigh watching some crappy tv.

It does get easier though as children get older and I get more daytime time to myself.

I go to bed anytime between 9 and 11. Annoyingly I seem to wake between 4 and 5 at the moment.

In a solo Mum and DD is asleep by 8. I then do house work, read board papers or other work until I get what I need to do done.

If DD is at her Dad’s then I’m out with my boyfriend. My friends or for work.

If you are tired you need sleep.