to ban the snooze button on the alarm clock grrrrrr

[2pt4kids]

I hate that button, should be banned!!

I'm not a good sleeper. It always takes me a while to get back to sleep after being woken up.
DS2 still wakes up twice a night (at nearly a year old!) so I'm always tired.

I go to bed by 10pm nearly every night.
Up at 1am to feed baby, awake for an hour.
Finally get to sleep again at 2am, baby wakes up for feed again at 5.30am.

DH alarm is usually set for 6.20am.

He says he CAN'T get up as soon as it goes off, so snoozes it once or twice.
By the time he gets up just before 7am I am wide awake with all the bloody alarm buzzing and then DS1 wakes up at 7am!!

So I'm basically awake from 5.30am onwards every morning when the children dont get up till at least 7am. It drives me crazy!!!

Have tried insisting DH does NOT snooze the alarm. He then doesnt get up in time before he dozes off again (he can fall asleep in less than a second after putting head on pillow). It means either me staying awake and poking him and screeching 'GET UP' at him every 5 mins (basically doing the snooze thing myself instead of the alarm clock doing it) or me getting a bit more sleep myself and ignoring whether he gets up or not, but him over sleeping and then being late for work! he then refuses to turn the snooze off the next day as he doesnt want to be late again!

I am always tired. I want to break the snooze button. Either that or find an alarm clock that will wake him up by giving him a big electric shock so he cant fall back asleep straight away!

Yanbu! I could have written that post myself.

I'm considering throwing dh's alarm clock away and buying one of those old fashioned wind-up ones that only go off once.

That or making him sleep on the sofa.

I am the opposite - I'll wake up sometimes to find that my DH has been up with the kids several times in the night dispensing Kalpol to deal with earaches, seeing my toddler to the loo etc. and he's spitting mad because now he has to go to work. He claims to be unable to get back to sleep once he's awake and the kids know to wake him up because he's there like a shot. I, on the other hand, am a really heavy sleeper and need that snooze button because waking up is like a physical trauma and I need to come through the levels slowly.
Nothing will change. People just sleep and wake differently. I would resist throwing him into the spare room or the sofa because he might just decide to make the move a little further and move out permanently.

My DH uses his mobile phone on vibrate and puts it inbetween the mattress and the bed. It still disturbs me to an extent but it's nowhere near as bad as an alarm going off every 5 mins.

Ooh. Yup the snooze thing happens in this house too. The problem is, our DS's room comes straight off ours. So the constant alarm wakes him as well. If I've only managed to get him down in the early hours, it's a right old pain when the alarm wakes him at 6. Oh, DP sets both the alarm clock AND his mobile, so both are going off, but they alternate. So I generally end up prodding him every time they go off to get him to bloody well turn it off before DS gets woken.

YANBU by the way.

This drives me crazy!! It's either the snooze button or my husband will set his alarm for 6.15am, I kick him to turn it off, he goes straight back to sleep and I lie there wide awake...... then get up to the baby at 7am and he eventually surfaces around 7.30am rushing around like a crazy man as he's running late, and does the usual 'where have you put my tie'?!!!

It does irritate me, especially when I've been up a lot in the night (he sleeps so deeply and hardly ever hears) but he is good at weekends and does friday and saturday nights (although I do have to prod him when the baby wakes up) and gets up first thing on saturday and sundays so I get lie ins.

Maybe we could invent some kind of alarm that they wear and it gives them an electric shock rather than making a noise?!! Would make them jump up but not disturb us, ha ha

YANBU sleep is a precious commodity with LOs around.Get him an alarm clock especially for deaf people, these have a vibrating unit which goes under your pillow and it's like an earthquake going off if you are not hearing impaired!!

Roulade - he HAS got one of those alarm clocks for deaf people! He was explaining our problem to a random person on the train once when he was drunk and they told him to buy one so he did lol.
Seriously, it vibrates the whole bloody bed, wakes me up (of course!) and I STILL have to poke DH and hiss at him to wake him up AND it has a snooze button

He has said that he seriously would buy an electric shock alarm clock if they sold them (he actually tried to look for one on the internet ) as he admits its the only thing that will work!

I think he has a problem!!How much sleep does he get? maybe it's too much, i have trouble getting up if i sleep too long.

i heart my snooze button.think all children should come with built in snooze buttons.

put the clock the far side of the room then he has to get up to turn it off. needs to be the kind that will go on forever unless you turn it off...