To go to bed for the night now?!

[lancsgirl85]

I'm permanently exhausted. We both work FT with a toddler. No family help, just the two of us juggling it all.

It's DP's turn this evening to do bedtime with our toddler. I'm free!! This time is so precious. I could watch a film and have a glass of wine, or have a bath, or even go for a run, if I wanted to.
Instead I am sitting on the sofa in the dark almost falling asleep. I could literally go to bed for the night now. At 7.45pm.

Is there something wrong with me?! Or is life as a full time working parent to a toddler so utterly draining that this is acceptable?🤔

Better to sleep in bed than in a chair. Sweet dreams(!)

Go to bed!

Go to bed for sure!

Go to bed, I love it if I can make it to bed by 8. Having kids is bloody tiring and I DO get helo from family! Go go go!

Another go to bed vote!

I sometimes go to bed at 8.30 and I don't even have the excuse of having a toddler.

Go to bed! Don't feel silly/guilty about it but enjoy

Good night!

depends if i went to bed that early ,i would be awake from about 1am and be unable to get back to sleep until about 6 then the alarm would go off at 7 and i would be more shattered than going to sleep at 12 -5

YANBU. I'm 5 weeks pregnant and have a very active 12m old who's currently going through some sort of sleep regression. I'm exhausted and going to bed in 5 minutes once this episode of the west wing is finished!

Well, that's pretty unanimous! I see I am definitely not BU. Bed it is then.

Good night! 😃

Goodnight! Report back in the morning

I'd go out for a walk for half an hour and try to hang on till 9pm. Or else I'd wake up at 5am and not be able to get back to sleep

Night night!

My alarm is set for 5am every day anyway 😭
Hence why I'm exhausted...

I love it if there’s something on tv at 9 which I can watch from my bed. I almost always fall asleep then, and don’t have to drag myself upstairs.

It can be draining. But if you have any other symptoms (dry skin, coldness, constipation, brain fog, carpul tunnel syndrome) it maybe worth asking your GP for a test for your thyroid.

Love going to bed early

Night

I am in bed. Sometimes it is just the thing to have a nice early night!

I go to bed at 9pm every night. Sometimes I go at 8pm.

My children are 12 and 14.

Life is exhausting.

Hope you're fast asleep now.

Off to bed with you! Nite nite!

Definitely bed, I am rarely up as late as this anymore and it's 8:32 😂

Dh and I have one night a week where we are asleep by 9/9:30, we have a non sleeping toddler and a 6 year old and busy ft jobs - we quickly realised that having that one good night really makes a difference to our moods!

So I was asleep by 8.30pm, alarm went off at 5.15am. I still feel absolutely exhausted, just totally wiped out. I'm now wondering if I have a health problem as this can't be normal after almost 9 hrs of sleep? 😕