Lie ins at the weekends.

[Martha200]

I am curious about dads and lie ins.. do you want them (probably yes!) do you ask for them from your other halves or are you up and looking after the children from when they wake?

If you do have a lie in, is that due to your work (are you a shift worker) or just a 'luxury' you have? Just curious to know if I am too kind to dh with our 2 children.

ha! will be watching this with interest.

I have a lie-in with dd - I lie there and look confused while she clambers all over the bed and is sick on me.

It's great.

obviously im not a dad but i let my dp sleep in whenever he isnt working

he does shift work at times so obviously let him sleep but even when he doesnt do shift work i let him sleep tends to just work out better i have got used to not having luxury of a lie in

even in the day sometimes tiredness has caught up with him and i let him go sleep i could never do that as he would want to be doing something noisy lol

i think we just tend to do it to keep piece im stay at home mum and he works real hard so guess my way of telling him i appreciate him

shame he doesnt do same back sometimes lol but still

Dh's idea of a lie-in is not getting up until 7 am!! It's positively unhealthy! Dd is the same, she gets up really easily, but ds likes his bed (like his Mum!).

When the children were small, dh used to get up with them on a Sunday, and make cakes very noisily, so I didn't get to have a 'proper' lie-in!

Hate staying in bed, would far rather get up 7-8am and let DW have a bit of luxury. But then again I'm normally crashed out on the sofa infront of CSI by 22:30

we take it in turns to get up with the kids. i have saturdays, he has sundays.

Same as alright - I get a lie-in on Sat, he gets one on Sun. He works full-time and I work p-t - but when not at work I'm with DS till 7 every day, so we both work hard.

same as alright - although if one of us has something to do early one morning without the kids, we find a compromise

we have a 5.30 waker here and take it in turns alternative days (weekdays and weekends) to get up with her. Even though dh works FT and i am a SAHM it doesnt mean he 'deserves' more sleep imo.

Our rule is that if the DKs are up in the night and one of us deals with it (DK needs lav, to be sick, a drink etc.), then the other gets up at 5.30 with the DKs to allow the other to recuperate.

Otherwise I have to admit, I usually get a lie-in on weekends, as DW gets a snooze in the afternoon during the week with the DKs.

both dh and I work full time but his working week always includes a Saturday.

I pretty much always let him lie in on the Sunday. Can't see why not tbh.

I'd rather sneak off in the afternoon to fall asleep read my book.

One each in this house.

thankfully, mine are old enough to sort themselves out in the morning anyway but I tend to wake up regardless grrr unless I'm v knackered

Lie ins? Lie ins I say???

If I were sufficiently savvy to insert emoticon thingys that rolled about with derisive laughter you can be assured that I would do so.

This morning I did lie in a bit, until 7.30. I regretted this when I came downstairs to discover my feral 9 year olds attempts to create an iced blackcurrant and banana smoothie for his breakfast. I am sure it tasted splendid, indeed I can still review it's appearance simply by looking at the remnants adhering to the kitchen ceiling.......

Lie ins impossible here... Open plan flat, and we can't move soon enough. DS co-sleeps with DW (won't sleep any other way) but when he wakes, DW wakes and I wake and so he comes downstairs, gives me a glorious smile that slays me every time and then sits on me for the next half hour giggling and dribbling all over me..... Absolutely brillant...

Me and DP take it in turns. He usually has a lie-in on a Saturday and I get Sunday.

We have never done the taking it in turns things. We all tend to get up at the same time. However, DD has never really been an early riser. She tended (still does0 go to bed a bit later on a weekend night,and then gets up a it later - is always after 7-7:30, often later. Today she woke at 10:30am, after a very late night at a wedding last night.

I bog off swimming on weekend mornings . My defence is that
(a) DP is spectacularly bad at lie-ins. I think he thinks they're immoral, or something
(b) having swum, I am in need of an 'afternoon nap' which can be, you know, shared

I am v. happy for DH to lie in at weekend - he gets up really early every day for work, he needs/deserves a lie in. I dont have to get up till 30 mins before school starts in the week.

Also, I like going out most nights of the week, and on the few nights I stay in, I go to bed early, so early mornings are no big deal to me.

It helps the DC are school age, so no disturbed nights any more

We have lie-ins together now that the kids are older. Make breakfast for each other and bring it up and all that jazz. Don't think we got dressed until tea-time this saturday.

We lock the doors at night and have the keys on hooks at the door high-up so the wee one can't get out without us knowing.

When they were babies we used to take turns.

Depends on any number of factors like if one of us was out late, or working, or due a lie-in, or whoever wakes up first.

We have this ridiculous system whereby DH gets up with the kids on a Sat or Sun (between 6.30 - 7.15 usually), I stay in bed until 8 - 8.30 (but not asleep because he can never not wake me up getting up, IYSWIM), then he goes back to bed till something like 10. It means we're seldom fully functioning until about 10.30 at the weekends.

I have to say that as a couple we are probably unevenly balanced though as the DW is not a great sleeper and wakes up easily - whereas it would take a nuclear attack to wake me if i am tired. Sometimes she is up and about for a couple of hours and i am oblivious to it.

But that is just a physical difference though and she often wishes she could fall asleep and stay alseep as easy as me.

I saw a survey recently that said the average male takes seven minutes to fall asleep. I bet that is longer for women - based on my experiences anyway.

One lie-in each at the weekend, with a 9.30am cut-off.

This works well as ds just going for his nap then so can sit and read the papers!