Sleeping in late every morning.

[Italianmoma1983]

Dh and I haven’t been sleeping well at all since it all started. It’s so bad that we need to sleep in separate rooms. As a result of this we sleep in late in the morning, sometimes up until 10.30 ! We have been both furloughed by our respective employer and our teenage sons don’t need us. I feel guilty about it but I can’t help it. Anyone’s sleep pattern has been affecting by the lockdown ? Thank you.

I’ve not been able to sleep until at least 1am (very odd for me, I’m usually in bed by 10:30) but waking up early so I’m knackered. DH is a postman so still working and I’m usually up before him.

Yes! I live alone and have gone straight into a routine of bed at about 1am and then I dont get up until around 10 sometimes even 11 . To be honest though this would probabaly be my normal sleeping pattern if I didnt work. When in work I go to bed around 10.30 and get up at 7 but I hate this and drag myself up. I wake every hour or so normally. I think it's fine for now anything to get through this strange time really and makes the day drag less! Unless its affecting your mental health I'd just do what you need and then retrain it 2 weeks or so before a likely return to work.

I did for a bit but now I just make sure I get up early, I hate missing the mornings

I'm still in my PJs OP, it's not just you.

Try not to feel guilty, you obviously need the sleep and it's not like you have babies or toddlers to look after. Enjoy the lie ins while you can

I usually sleep at 10.30 max and wake up at 7 but now I don’t sleep before 1 am most night !

Other than a good, regular sleep pattern being important for health reasons there is no need to feel guilty.

If I didn't have the pesky young dog pestering me to get up, I'd be doing the same.

Snooze away!

What exactly are you feeling guilty about? Are there things you need to do before 10:30am?

Why feel guilty?

Feeling guilty because I get a lot of texts from friends and neighbours who are on their daily walk and text to see if I want to say hello at the window around 9 am ! They have young children ! They must think I’m a very lazy bitch :(

If they think that, they’re not your friends.

It’s the same number of hours asleep, so what if they’ve shifted? I’m doing exactly the same, bed at 1am, alarm set for 9am (which I seem to keep snoozing! )

Who cares what they think? Sleep! Enjoy it!

My sleep pattern hasn't changed at we have a 3yo, a puppy and we're both working from home. In your situation I would be enjoying the lie ins.

10.30 is not even that late, my God. I've had lie ins that lasted til evening.

Give yourself a break, we're all stressed, a lie in isn't going to do anyone any harm.

The DCs are 7&9. They get up get the tablets and entertain themselves.

I have finally after a decade of pregnancy, night feeds and caring for young children, rediscovered the joy of sleeping in and remembering dreams. It's amazing

Yep went straight into a routine of 2am-10/11. That's my natural pattern and always has been since early teens. With work it was 6.30 wake up 10/11 bedtime every night and this was so forced and hard work but obviously I was used to it.

I feel guilty but what's the point in trying to change it for now?

I just had my breakfast, sitting on the sofa with my PJ’s on. Usually I’m up at 6.15am, I don’t feel guilty, I’m actually enjoying this bit of lockdown. Sleeping late makes the day go faster I guess.

We all have our natural circadian rhythms
Some are larks, some are owls, and we can switch between.
When there's no compulsion to get up for work and the evenings are lighter there's not so much of a problem with a lie in, so long as you get out in the light at some point and your MH is as ok as it can be in these strange times

Absolve yourself of the guilt and I doubt there is any judgement. When my kids were little I yearned to stay in bed for a bit

If this had happened before we had DC I'd say we'd be fully nocturnal by now. We're juggling a toddler and wfh - I say you sleep, you sleep as long as you want, whenever you want. Wake up, remember you've done your time of sleepness nights and early rises and roll over with a smug grin.

I think a lot of us have a natural pattern of being awake later and sleeping later. We are forced out of this natural pattern when we have to be up at 6 or 7 am to go to work.
I've been self-employed for several years now and as soon as I no longer had to get up to go to work my sleep settled into a much better pattern for me of staying awake until 1 am and getting up at 9.30am. I know there are plenty of people who think I am a lazy fucker (I'm in a country where people start work at 7am) but I will be working late into the night when they are already in bed.

Just enjoy sleeping in late and it doesn't matter what the fuck others think. Ignore the texts - put your phone on silent so they don't disturb you.

I'd do your best to keep the same routine or you'll regret it when it's back to work time. I can't do lie-ins or naps otherwise I can't sleep at my normal bedtime and then it becomes a self fuelling cycle of sleeping later, bed later etc etc

I am furloughed and shielded, I am sleeping until 11.00 /11.30 every day,

Yesterday, I really went for it, I woke up at 1.30 pm having turned out the lights at midnight the night before.

My DH is still working , he gets up as normal and waits to hear sounds of life from me, then brings me up a freshly brewed coffee, I eventually get up about midday.

I could used to this.

Where is the rush ?

Never has the saying been truer.

Nothing to do.

All day to do it.

I woke at 2pm today

Dont feel guilty op

Don't feel guilty embrace it! Just think of the early mornings when you've wanted to stay in bed but couldn't. If it's not hurting anyone else then don't give it a second thought!
We got into a bad routine in the first 2 weeks but I've got young ish children so trying to wake early to wake them up so they sleep at night more than anything because my husbands a key worker and was isolating but now he's back at work we've had to get back into a kind of routine. ! I'm not sleeping very well I wish I could stay in bed.