How many hours sleep do you parents get?

[Chippingbird23]

I get anywhere between 7-8 hrs usually sometimes even 9 rarely but still tired sometimes.

Between 3 and 6 hours of broken sleep a night. I have a 2yo who has never slept well. Some nights I get a 6 hour chunk but it's rare.

@Wanderlust20

7 or 8 hours too and I have an 11 week old (yup, smug mummy here!!)

My dd would sleep for 7 hours straight at that age, then at about 16 weeks it all went to shit and never got better... The 4 month regression is a real thing.

Until my daughter was 5 I hadn't had more than 3hours in a row for 5years have never gone through anything as tough. Now it's about 7hours

about 8 hours, I go to bed about 10 and woken by 6am by the baby (4 months)

When the children were babies I had about 5 hours in 1.5 hour chunks. Now they're teenagers I get 7-8 hours. They have 12ish.

@Wanderlust20

7 or 8 hours too and I have an 11 week old (yup, smug mummy here!!)

I wouldn't worry too much about sleep regression, both mine (4 months and 3 years) slept through 7-7 from about 8 weeks reliably, apart from sickness - no point worrying about something that may never happen.

I thank my stars every day I have two good sleepers, can't imagine how hard it must be for those who don't - think you are amazing!

Same here, 6:30-7 from 11 and 14 weeks and continued to do so apart from when ill.

I prioritise sleep over pretty much everything else. When I'm really tired I'm an absolute emotional wreck. I generally get 8 hours.

Some kids are good sleepers and some kids aren’t. I don’t believe in the regression bollocks and I certainly don’t believe in ‘leaps’. I don’t know a single baby that had a scheduled regression. 🙄

What I do know are kids who don’t sleep so well. They slept badly constantly and their desperate parents would sporadically label an unchanging situation as a regression. It’s nonsense.

As is the spiteful message to the poster whose baby is sleeping well.

7-8 hours, don’t remember the last time I had any more than that. I used to say I needed 9 to be a reasonable person and actually remember at one point having 10-11 hours a night. Gone are those days, 7 is probably the average. It’s partially because DH is a nuisance and he keeps me awake till midnight talking.

At the minute, 4-5 hours because of a leap. As others have said, I prioritise an hour to myself once I've done dishes etc. We did have a stretch of around 3 weeks when DS was sleeping 9-7.30 and life was better than good. Fingers crossed he goes back to that once this leap is done with!

When not on annual leave, about 7.5 hours usually - 11pm-ish to 6:30am-ish. Quarter of an hour either way! My DCs are 3.5 and 9. When they were babies I sometimes got as little as 3.5 hours as they were awful sleepers.

I'm currently going through this exact experience, how did your.first born settle eventually? Ours is soon to transition into a bed but we are being woken up by a 2.5 year old crying for us in the night and our 2 month old is sleeping 9pm til 6am 😑