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 usually wake up at this time, but for the first week I was up at 7.30, wanting to get stuff done.
I'm back to my usual 10.30 again now.
I don't sleep until around 2 -3am anyway, I'm a night owl and do so much more late at night/early morning.

now I just make sure I get up early

Oh ok I hadn't thought of that!

I LOVE being up early (even though it normally is by force, not choice), but now I am having trouble getting up unless I have an actual thing to do - my work is flexible so I can't fool myself I have to be at my desk by a certain time.

I have three alarms, one of which is quite obnoxious and several metres away. I can now get out of bed, walk to it, turn it off and return to bed without really waking up. That's if I really must. Today for example I was able to tune it out and carry on dozing for a good hour.

My normal patterns have also gone out the window. I wake up between 7 and 8, but just sit in bed reading till about 10.00 when the DC wake up. We all have breakfast, then just mooch about (on screens / in garden) till lunch. At about 3, I go and lie down for a couple of hours just for some quiet time. Get up, make dinner. We all then go for a long walk and go to bed late (11pm for DC, 1am for me and DH). I usually wake in the night and read for an hour and then the day repeats.

It's taken the full 3 weeks for my body clock to stop waking me up at 5.30.

5.30 is the time i used to get up 7 days a week and get LOADS done in the hour and a half before the rest of the house rises.

At first i was pissed off with waking up early every day of lockdown. Now i wish it would come back.

I'm ''laying in'' till DD4 comes and wakes me up at 7am (i know i know but it feels late for me) and i'm finding it hard to wake up properly. I'm dragging myself out of bed which is not like me and feel like i'm trying to catch up all day :(

I did initially, now my sleep is all over the place, up at any time between 7.20 and 11.30. Today I got up at 5.20 with DD to hear the 'dawn chorus', bloody stupid idea, just made the dog howl and now I'm knackered.

My sleep patterns are all over the place, and once I wake up I'm not finding it very easy to actually get out of bed. There doesn't seem to be anything to get up - or dressed - for...

I’m the same. Really not sleeping well. Separate room to DH because he was coughing (not much at all but I didn’t feel comfortable sleeping in same bed) - got used to being in a different room now 😬. I’m often awake at 2,3am then don’t wake up til 9am, and even then it’s a struggle. I’m normally up at 6.45

God yeah mine is terrible. Can't get to sleep until gone midnight then sleeping in until 9/10. Need to sort this out cos it's going to be a nightmare when I have to go back to work and the alarm goes off at 7 am.

We don't sleep until about 2am and wake about 11. 30am and depending on how hungry we are get up about 12.30 or like now still lazing in bed.
It will all go back to normal far to soon so will enjoy it while it lasts.

you're not hoovering coke all night and then going burgling.

Lockdown ruins all the fun doesn’t it?

I’ve never understood the whole up early competitiveness thing. Let’s flip it - see who can have the longest lie in.

My natural sleep pattern has changed. I used to have to force myself to get up for school run but would sleep as long as I could at the weekend, until 10 or 11 if I had nothing to do. Now my body clock has me getting up between 6 and 8 am, which is so odd. I've never been a lark before. Even more weird, if I do sleep late it's generally a Saturday or Sunday even though all of my days are exactly the same as each other now.

I’m on Easter holidays, and am in a pattern of going to bed about 1, waking up about 10.30, then having a shower about lunchtime. DP is getting up with the cat so I can lie in.

Next week I’ll be back working, but had got into the routine of getting up at 8.30, checking emails, then shower/dress - no “live” classes where anyone needs to see me until 10.

My natural sleep pattern would be to go to sleep around 12-1am and then wake up about 9/10am. So that’s what I’m doing. Back to work next week, so will be dragging self out of bed at 6.30am and hating every minute of it. Make the most of it & ignore anyone who feels they need to comment. I have one friend who goes for her daily walk at 7am and tells me off for not answering her texts - offered to call her at 11pm, she was horrified

I think you are normal

We all just have to do what works and be kind to ourselves

For some reason I need a routine to be happy, I set the alarm for 7:30 and walk the dog at 8:30 (nice long quiet walk, love the fact it is nice weather after 6 months of rainy muddy dog walks)

I have no idea what sort of time my friends get up, and would not think less of them for their bed times, who cares?

We all just have to find what works for us

I'm the same. I'm sleeping so badly at night I've been waking up at 10 or 10.30. I've tried getting up earlier but just can't seem to force myself. DD is 10 and has been struggling with her sleep and ends up sleeping the morning away. I'll have to get her back into a better routine next week for doing school work and I'm dreading it! DH was the same as me last week when he was holiday but he's working from home now so he has to be up and working. He's still only getting up about 8.45, quick shower and makes a coffee ready to start at 9 rather than leaving the house at 7!

Guilty of what? As long as you don't bother your neighbours with noise at antisocial hours, who cares what you do?

None of my kids are up until 9am, they have no reason to get up earlier - if they would sleep longer I would be even happier, but the youngest are still little.

They don't have to start "homeschool" at 8 or 9, we can do whatever we want. DH and I still work, but my hours are flexible anyway.

Enjoy it while it lasts, nothing wrong with sleeping late, it's lovely.

Even my 5 year old isn’t getting up until 8.30/9

It’s bloody pleasant

They must think I’m a very lazy bitch

Who cares?

Why feel guilty? I'm in bed till after 10/11 everyday my husband is up at 7 as he is used to get up early with work and even the is now off he can't lie in bed. I've two teens that are still in bed snoring their heads off. There's nothing happening here I'm sick of bloody cleaning and gardening.Besides we have weeks still to do stuff so relax and enjoy the lie ins

it is, or will be, a problem so I would make a concerted efforts to sort it out. Your circadian rhythms have been interrupted

Circadian rhythms vary from person to person, though. Those who are finding themselves naturally drifting to later times might be gravitating towards what their natural sleep/wake times would be if it wasn't for the demands of external schedules.

That said, it's true that it's important to get enough daylight or things are a lot more likely to slip out of control. (I've struggled with a circadian rhythm disorder myself, all my life, so I'm a bit of a self-taught expert on these matters. )

even though

I put YABU because if you're asking then it can't be making you feel great. It's really important to look after ourselves right now and I wasn't clear on how it is making you feel.

Do you at least have some kind of routine with your new wake and sleep time? Do you feel productive or are you just getting through each day?

I'd crack on with it OP - only wish I could do the same :)

I rarely sleep before 2am but start work (from home) around 7am. I had a great sleep on Monday as DH (NHS) was working and I had the bank holiday so I dropped back off after he got up and slept through until nearly 9. Felt amazing.

As a consequence though I wasn't tired enough to go to bed until 2ish last night, then it seemed that everyone wanted the toilet - banging doors, the cat was on my bit of the bed, then left but didn't close the door after herself leaving light flooding in everytime one of the boys opened their bedroom doors. Then they woke DH who went to the toilet and shuffled and snored for ages. I really just need about 10 minutes quiet and dark to drop off and then I can sleep through quite a bit but it's an allusive thing those 10 minutes....

DSs are also teenagers and DS2 is often video calling his girlfriend until 4 or 5am - this is not helping with my sleep! Although he isn't loud, I can hear the murmur and keeps me awake. Haven't the heart to tell him not to though as I'm a soft touch!

Me too. And don’t want to get up early as it makes the day too long.