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 have very small children, I don't think you are lazy, I'm just very jealous....

My usual routine is 5am start - this is continuing without any effort but I am early to bed around 9.30pm. I have always been this way though including at school & university.

If you are enjoying go to bed late and getting up late though, go for it! Think we just have to do what is best for us at the moment.

Look at it this way, if you're in bed sleeping you've less chance catching the virus so its social distancing at its finest 😂

My sleep pattern has gone out the window, I was wide awake until 3am this morning then woke up at 10:30am. Usually I'm in bed by 10pm and awake 7/8am

Try not to feel guilty, you've been furloughed due to circumstances beyond your control. Also sounds like you needed the rest.

Based upon yesterday's update the lockdown is going to be in place for a further 2-3 weeks. So if I was in your shoes I'd give myself another week of sleeping in late. And then start going back to old sleep/wake routine so that it's less of a struggle when you return to work.

Be kind to yourself x

Yes, we are the same, just finished out breakfast at 11.30. DH, DD and I are born owls + anxiety about the situation takes its toll. DD (15) fall asleep at 00.30 this night, and this after I went to kiss her and sat with her for a bit. She’s additional needs and always had problem with getting asleep. She woke at 6 and started coughing. I was worried and went to check. She’s ok so we all fall asleep again but obviously none of us was keen to get up at 8 a.m.

If we’re not out doing stuff I get up at 9.30 am weekends normally, now I wake up at 9 to exercise, then start work. I’m MUCH happier. I normally wake at 6.30 am to drive the teens to the school bus. They’re happy, we’re all happy. There’s nothing else to do!

Lol those are rookie numbers you gotta pump those numbers up kid!

A very lazy bitch?

You genuinely think your friends would call you a bitch?

Have you considered getting help or support for anxiety?

You shouldn't feel guilty, but it is, or will be, a problem so I would make a concerted efforts to sort it out.

Your circadian rhythms have been interrupted and this can lead to mental health issues in the long term - you need adequate day light each day.

Also, no one can survive without routine, so make one for your household and do your best to stick to it.

Yeah! My body clock has gone full circle now. I’m usually up at 7.30 for school run and work, but during furlough and school closure no need to get up early.

I go to bed about 2am anyway on school/work nights but I’ve been sleeping in till 11am lately. Today I just stayed up all night and a, hoping to reset my sleep clock tonight.

I’m the opposite, a complete lark. I’m wide awake by 5 so get up then, and then go to bed around 8 or 9pm. Loving it. This seems to be my normal pattern left to my own devices, with no evening meetings or not getting home from work until after 7 and needing some time to chill before bed.

After spending the past 31 years at the beck and call of children and school runs together with late shifts at work (often DH isn't home until midnight then he wants to unwind) and having to get up and care for my mum we have suddenly found ourselves with no responsibilities - carers for my mum, school closed, work closed. As a result we are in bed by 11 most nights and waking up around 9 a.m., taking it in turns to get up and make drinks to bring back to bed. We are behaving as we did when had no children, just lounging in bed until we need to eat.

I’ve been doing that too OP.
I’ll get in bed around 9:30 with good intentions to sleep by 10:30 but lately been unable to sleep until 1am or so. Last night I was watching Netflix too late.
Still up no later than 8:30 but I’m usually up at 6am so that is late for me and I do feel lazy. I eat breakfast and then it seems like it’s lunchtime too soon.

My sleep pattern is all over the place. I've still been asleep at 11.30am (oh the shame!). I do feel bad about it, but I don't seem able to sort it out atm.

My sleep pattern is shot to hell and I hate it. In my world, there's nothing nicer than working hard all day and then coming home tired and going to bed early with a book and relaxing. Now there's just no distinction and I'm worrying worrying worrying all night and waking up late and exhausted. I've tried fresh air, running and going for really long walks. I don't know what else to do, but I am truly sick of seeing 2am.

I am an early bird usually. I work from home (always have) and often end up in Skype meetings at 7-10am due to time differences. Now all my colleagues in other parts of the world have got a whole lot more flexible on timings, our meetings are moving to the middle of the day for me and I have naturally shifted to a later pattern.
I am still rarely in bed past 9am, but I do find it hard to get up and get moving (ie going to sit at the laptop) which I never have before. Before I didn't struggle to be up, showered and dressed and ready for meeting by 7am. Simply couldn't do that at the moment. I have have another friend working from home who only gets dressed on the top half, and stays in PJs on the bottom half. Wish I could that, tried it, just can't.

Yeah weve been getting up at 10.30 sometimes later... and I've got two young kids! Who also arent waking up early... I never set alarms because my eldest is usually always up at the crack of dawn making noise so I get up.... but not at the moment.... my 1yo slept till 11 yesterday! Time is meaningless.... especially as its light till 8pm now so it's not like we are missing daylight... we just seem to be doing everything a bit later than normal... still doing cleaning, cooking, schoolwork and exercise... just later

I wake up whenever I want, usually about 11am, and don't feel one bit guilty.

I'm the same, can't sleep til the early hours then sleep til I wake, really trying to get into a more normal routine this week though, easier said then done I feel

I think many of us are not natural morning people, but have forced ourselves into being so by getting up for work etc. Don't feel guilty about reverting to type :) I have a toddler, so don't get to sleep in, but if he was older like your two then I would love to be sleeping in like you are :)

Yep! My 2 DC aren't waking up until 10.30am and I dont get up until 11! And this is every morning. Our usual routine has gone to pot and our sleeping patterns with it. We're going to struggle re setting our body clocks when this is over.

I'm the opposite, I'm usually up until midnight then sleep until abut 10am. Since lockdown I'm asleep at about the same time but then awake several times during the night and wide awake about 6am.

Sleep is especially important at the moment in order to maintain a strong immune system so whatever your sleep pattern, as long as you get plenty of sleep it doesn’t really matter when you get that sleep. We spend so many years conditioning our bodies to cope with getting up early for school and then work that it’s hard to say exactly what’s best for an individual. You aren’t doing anyone any harm so just enjoy it while it lasts, no guilt required.

I never understood the worship of early rising and the glorification of getting up early. Why feel guilty? WTF, you're not hoovering coke all night and then going burgling.