To the parents young children who wake up 6-6.30 am.

[Jayletime]

What time do you go to bed? And do you feel well rested enough?

We don't get enough. We usually get between 5-6 hours a night, sometimes less. We often go to bed late (1-2am) and are up early with ds, usually awake before 7am.
Dh often doesn't get home from work until 11-11.30pm, then by the time he has a shower and we sit down and spend a bit of time together it's late.
Ds is starting school in September so will have to get into a proper routine and going to bed at a decent time.
We are pretty much always tired, but so used to having not much sleep. (Occasionally we don't go to bed at all, so we'd be up in the day, stay up all night, be up all day the next day, then go to bed the next night).

I downloaded a sleep tracker app on to my Apple Watch 3 nights ago and apparently I get between 4 and 5 hours sleep a night.

Ds used to wake before 5 every morning for years (after a disturbed night). He's 10 now and wakes between 5 and 6...which is a bonus!

I try and get to bed about 10.30, but I'm finding it really hard to get to sleep at the moment, so don't fall asleep for ages. Ds is usually up at least once a night.

I sometimes fantasise about booking into a hotel for a weekend just to sleep.

I get up at 6.15 for work anyway, always have so i don’t mind 6, 5.30 is tough. I go to bed about 10. On weekends it’s rough but DH and I take it in turns to have a lie in. I don’t think I’ve felt well rested since DD was born 3 years ago and just got used to always being a bit tired

Ours our up at 5:30-6. We go to bed by 10 and feel rested. If we go to bed any later we don't. Dh is an early riser so gets up with them and I need an extra hour to feel human.

DS wakes at 6.30. I’m pregnant and so tired but also like to have an evening so go to bed about 10.30/11, sometimes slightly earlier. don’t really feel like it’s enough!

My DS (almost 2) usually sleeps 7:30-6 which I can cope with and feel rested when he’s doing that (pre-DS I’d be horrified at that statement!).

But recently he’s decided to scream until 8pm and wakes up screaming at 5am. So no I don’t feel rested, I’m going to bed at 9:30pm but for the life of me can’t get to sleep til gone 10pm. I hate it.

9 or 10 although mine has just started sleeping through at 2 and a bit and previously woke 2 hourly so it's more because of that. I think 10 or 11 would be ok

But used to get up at 6 anyway for work so I don't think it's especially early

DD wakes up around 6.30am. I'm famous in my family for loving my sleep, so getting used to less than 9 hours has been tough! I tend to go to bed around 10pm, but have been known to call it a day at 8pm. 😂

I go to bed around 11pm and am awake with DS anytime between 5.30 and 6

I feel fine - I had to get up earlier when I was working!

I get up before him and am already working. He gets given his school work to do as soon as he gets up and has now realised if he does his work early he can piss about all afternoon.

I put the kids down at 7, or 7.30 & the 6 ye old wakes at 6am, the little one at 7am. The little one is 19 months old & gets up at a godly time in the morning. So bloody frustrating that the older one wakes up like a jack-in-the-box bang on 6am. I usually tell him to go back to bed, or he goes downstairs & watches cartoons until baby wakes me at 7 am.

Because I’m lazy & need to spend at least half of my life asleep in order to enjoy life, I go to bed at 9, sometimes 8.30 if DH is in a grump. Love my bed & being away from everyone else in the room. I need this to feel sane.