To think 7am is a lie in?

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Or not?

DD wakes at around 5, so when is a reasonable time to wake DH?

How does it work on 'your' morning?

I’m with you on this.

No, 7am isn't a lie-in. If yourchikd woke at 3, would 5 be a lie-in? Hard to say when a reasonable time would be - what does your dh think? And do you get lie-ins too?

7am is not a lie in. Do so many kids really wake up at 5am? We are lucky to have a good sleeper but are there ways to ignore them for a bit longer and keep them in bed?

Our lie ins run to 8:30am. We take it in turns on Saturday and Sunday.

We said 8 when DS was waking up at 5.

Our lie ins are usually 9am.

I don’t think so, I have tried but haven’t found anything effective.

I don’t have a morning, but to be fair I did have a day off of sorts yesterday to get some work done.

Anything that’s an hour or more later than when you get up for work is a lie in, in my book.

Depends how long you get on your days to lie in.

I’d probably wake DH at around 8.30.

I agree with @Fairislefandango. I've been through those horrid years of early wakings, my DD was awful for it, my DH and I managed it by taking turns as much as we could at weekends (I did all the midweeks because his work is a lot more demanding than mine) but if you're taking turns that does mean leaving the other person to sleep as long as they need/want to. As long as he's doing the same thing when it's his turn to get up and give you a lie in.

Why don’t you get a morning to lie in?

HA!

No.

DD was up at 4.17am for the day for at least a year. No way to keep her still or in bed. People with good sleepers have no idea. It's left me with permanent insomnia.

I don’t have a morning

He doesn't get one either then. 5am is the time.

I wouldn't wake someone if it was their day to sleep in. Unless you guys discussed a waking up time ahead of time. And you also should have a day left to wake on your own.

When he naturally wakes? DH is having a rare lie in this morning and I won’t wake him. I expect to see him latest 9?

(And yes to PP, I think 95% of toddlers on the planet go through a 5am phase. Luckily for most of them it is indeed a phase.)

She used to be a nightmare at night but now she generally sleeps through I’ve taken the trade off to be these crazy early mornings.

I have tried getting DH to get up with her but it just doesn’t work. It takes so much prodding to wake him and then she just cries and screams anyway so I still don’t get a lie in!

HA!

No.

DD was up at 4.17am for the day for at least a year. No way to keep her still or in bed. People with good sleepers have no idea. It's left me with permanent insomnia.

Wow 4am! Yeah I know we're so lucky. We have another I'm sure it won't be like that. I suffer from insomnia anyway so I wouldn't really sleep if I had a baby up at 4/5am. op should definitely get a lie in too. Otherwise they should both be waking up at the same time.

In that case - he wakes up now. You have done two hours . Go back to bed til 9

I feel confident these men who sleep through their kids are faking it. How old is your DD? You should be getting a lie in too! Whether it’s regularly discussed or even just a nice one off when he quietly ushers her downstairs.

Then he should be waking up when you do that f he's not returning the favour. I crane my husband out of bed when it's his turn.

7am is not a lie in

I guess the question is more are you trying to give your DH a lie in or not? Because if not the definition of lie in is irrelevant and he needs to stop being so useless

Well no 7am isn’t a lie in really but do you get lie ins when your child wakes at the crack of dawn? Lazing around until 10am is surely something you wave goodbye to when you have young kids. Unless you have some sort of agreement of taking turns. DH and I tried that for a while but it just didn’t work - maybe because our house is so small but realistically you just don’t get a good lie in when your partner gets up and is making noise then the kids are up and noisy. So we just both get up. I do relish an occasional afternoon nap on my day off though!

How convenient that he just can’t get up with her 🙄 what would happen if you did the same? He’s fucking having you on.

Hi, my 4 year old often wants to be up by 5 or 5.30. At the weekend (both work full time mon to Fri). We take turns. The lie in stops at 7.30 and parent who got up at 5 goes back to bed for an hour