Will I ever lie in again?!?!

[Sofielou]

My 1 year old is a fan of a 6am wake up. Every single day. Which is fine when we have to be out at work/childcare. But it's the weekend, and I just want to go back to sleep.

The dream is over forever, isn't it? When will I ever lie in again? 😩

3 years in and I wake up just before 7 whether DS does or not!

A lie in for me is 7am, and my ‘baby’ is 17. I wake, or rather my bladder does, at 5.30am EVERY day and can rarely get back to sleep properly (and am also gasping for a brew). It’s official, I’ve turned into my Mother. That said, I love the ‘alone time’ before everyone else gets up. Plus with two felines who can hear my eyes opening, you never get a lie in.

My DD when under 1 went through a phase of being up at 6. Then the clocks went back and it was 7. She’s 2.5 now and woke up at 8.30 today ( she went to bed later though) but her usual wake time 7-7.30. Not ideal but not awful. I used to love to sleep in too but I’ve sort of adjusted. The days when I’m home and my DH isn’t working I get a long lie as he gets up. Personally, I’m ok with DD going to sleep 08.30/9pm provided she sleeps through and wake up later…. (She doesn’t nap now either)

I had to wake my 2 year old grandchild up at 830 this morning! She woke up at 6 and I gave her a bottle of milk and then she went back to sleep.
Whenever she hasn’t settled back to sleep she has always come into my bed and I have never got up before 745 with her .

Mine are both adults now and I rarely sleep past 8am anymore but I can have a lovely nap during the day.

But she woke up at 6! Or do you mean 6pm yesterday?

Never.

I don't really have anything to complain about as mine are fantastic sleepers, even as babies, would sleep till 7.30/8am on a regular basis.

But that's it. I'll never sleep till 9/10am like the old days pre-children 😩

My youngest started lying in at 10-11 years old just when the older ones had weekend jobs to be dropped off at in the mornings 😩

My approach was to never ever let the dds watch tv apart from when I was in bed - so they could get up and put the tv on and it would stay on until I got up (so it was in their interests not to wake me up - worked for years 😀 - they learnt very fast how to turn it on and work the dvd player!)

We do this too! I’m on duty Saturday, but I “sleep” until 9:30 on Sunday… even if actually the DCs are a bit noisy and I’m really just reading in bed. It’s as good a set up as we can manage for now, though!

My DS is nearly 9, I don't get up with him any more, he plays on the switch in bed until I wake up.