Desperate for a lay in

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Love dd to bits, but being the only one dragged out of bed every mornings a bit wearing.

I think this morning, we were up before the birds

I bet I'm not alone in this, and I?

It's something I dream of.... You are not alone!

Ds is 2 and was doing a series of 430am's last month. It nearly broke me.

I tried a gro clock and am now up to 645, which by comparison feels like heaven!

How old is your dc? Roll on teenage lie ins eh?!

How old is dd?

I say this every weekend!

Not even a 'teen-like lay in' just until about 9 or 10am would be bliss!!

How old is she? Old enough for TV?

We are going roller skating at 7pm tonight for just this reason.

Yes, we had 5 non sleeping children. The only answer for me was to get to bed by 10pm every single night and I still do that so by the time it's 6am have had a solid 8 hours (but only now they don't wake in the night). One of mine (teenager|) woke at 2.30pm yesterday.

It does change - most of them sleep later as teenagers. Also I used to take the youngest 2 to our gym on Saturday afternoons - they went into the creche for 2 hours and I had a sauna and then I slept for at least an hour on the beds by there. It was the thing I needed most when I was up every night in the night and up early and working full time.

She's 2 at the end of the month, so sadly not old enough to be left to it.

Yep. Roll on teen years!

Do you know anyone else who might swap with you? You do one sat night as a sleepover and them they return the favour?

You have major sympathy from me tho...I've been trained by the kids to wake early, altho am a reasonably morning person anyway

Can you put a Tv/ DVD combo in your room ?
I found Dvds on low volume with me wearing earplugs bought me an extra hour or so of dozing.
If she won't settle in your bed, have the sofa all made up the night before with a duvet etc so you can try and doze while she potters.

It's hard.

I did what actifiz says, with children's channel on low and them in bed next to me.

Makes you feel like a shit parent but actually that's got to be better than a parent who is frazzled and less able to cope.

I consider 8-6 my "working hours" as a parent. During that time ds will be fed nutritional food, stimulated with educational experiences and played with most of the time outside of those times though anything goes! If he gets up at 6am well he will just have to watch cartoons and wait for me to wake up at my own pace. It makes it strangely bearable, and I have zero guilt!

Wouldn't a lie in be wonderful! I'd love to not make breakfast every sodding morning and listen to the news in peace, or go for a run first thing.

Mum has the kids for the odd night during school hols, so I can get to work the next day. So, still no lie in. We go on a big family holiday once a year so I do get slower mornings that week, the dc's go and jump on my sister in the mornings instead .

Yes I'm not saying btw that putting the telly on is shit, but that it made me feel a bit shit, but I told myself it was better than the alternative.

Sometimes we can judge ourselves too harshly on these sorts of things.

Sorry I wasn't being funny sardines, I totally get what you mean - it was only till I started giving myself working hours as such that I stopped beating myself up was what I meant, not that we should be feeling guilty! Ill sharrup now!

No no I know I just didn't want anyone to think I was saying they were shit and I realised it hadn't come across very well!

We're all on the same page

I blame the lack of sleep we are all getting

Dd has gone to bed an hour later than she normally would. Normally, she struggles much past 6.30.

Any wager on if She'll sleep any longer tomorrow morning.

I'm hedging my bets on a No

I'd love to lay in bed till at least midday. But, apparently that's exclusively for deadbeat dad's only.

Does she have blackout curtains/blinds?

That might be worth a try.

I have been waking ridiculously early the last couple of weeks with the light steaming in and have ordered some.

streaming in!

Not been steamy in the bedroom for a while

DS 3yrs let's me have a lay in until 7.30am on Sundays if I'm lucky. Now its lighter in mornings he will come downstairs get his banana, press button on remote (i make sure milkshake kids channel is set) watch that for a bit before coming to tell me I need to put his pjs the right way round. (Why he has to strip naked to go for a wee is beyond me).

I learnt not to leave anything out on the side after he came and told me he had almost whole bag of mini marshmallows for breakfast!

If I had tv's in bedroom I wouldn't of hesitated to put that on for DS as have been many times we been up before the birds! Especially at 3.30am asking if its morning yet.

Yeah, she's got blackout curtains, but her bed is right next to the window. There's no other place to put it, because of how her furniture fits in

Give, that sounds like my sort of breakfast

Two dd's that don't like to sleep here. Earliest ever recorded get up time in our house was 4.30am. Seriously. I just cope by going to bed at 9.30pm. I love my sleep!

I stay at my mums house about once a month and I get a sort of lie in then...awake but not having to get up with them. Love it.