Silly question: Co-sleeping and alarm clocks

[Asturimama]

Hello everyone,

I am expecting my first baby (24+1) and I was wondering how other people do it when the baby is sleeping in the same room as both parents and one of them has to get up early to go to work. How do the adults wake up without the baby also waking up? I doubt the baby will sleep through my annoyingly loud alarm...

I know it's a silly question, probably you start to wake up without the need for alarm clocks or something...

Hm, I've never even thought about this. I've just assumed it will be baby waking us up instead of us waking him up.

It wasn't really an issue with the older two as no one was getting up early but dp has been since before ds2 was born and funnily enough he tends to sleep through the alarms.

At the moment I have about 6 really annoying alarms set to go off every morning on my phone (I need a lot of reminding or I doze back off!) but they don't really wake him, he's quite often still in bed after we've gotten up.

Similarly when he's in his own cot in the boys room I can go in and haul ds1 kicking and screaming out of the bed and he usually sleeps through it

dd on the other hand has always woken at the slightest noise.. she still does at 6, so it really depends on the baby tbh.

Mine have all slept through the alarm. But DH has lightening reflexes and switches it off almost before it's gone off. And he's the kind of person that once it's gone off he never dozes back off again . Unlike me who can easily lose an hour with the snooze button

You'll sleep a LOT more lightly when you are co-sleeping so will prob wake up on first beep. And to be honest have never needed to use an alarm clock since my DS was born!

We're doing it and it isn't too difficult. I think you get better and drifting in-and-out of sleep once you have a baby. And you get attuned to listening out for certain sounds.

If my partner needs a good sleep (for work the next day) he tends to sleep with earplugs. He still hears his alarm the next morning, yet the baby and I barely notice it.

Our baby doesn't tend to get woken up by sounds. Yet...!!

It's a great question, I wondered this too.

Lots of responses here (and my friends in real life) say that you never really sleep properly once you have a baby anyway, and when you're asleep you're still sort of half listening, but I'm kind of concerned that that won't be the case for me as I love my sleep and go into hard sleeps/dreams akin to a coma. That is one of my big worries once my baby is born, that I won't wake up

Katie - you will wake up I promise you! My DD is often woken by DP's alarm it;s a pain.

You will have a new alarm clock that makes the old one redundant, ie the baby!

My alarm goes off every morning 45 minutes before anyone else has to get up, including my 16 month old. I don't think our alarm has ever woken her up, of if it does, she just stretches a bit and goes back to sleep. This is with my husband reaching out of his side of the bed, grabbing the alarm, passing it over her and to me to turn off and me then having to do weird things to get out of bed because her cot is still side-car attached to the bed but she usually sleeps in between us.

Babies can sleep through all sorts of noises. Mine have slept trhough all sorts including alarms, older siblings being boisterous, dogs barking and the telephone ringing right next to them.

I think it's only if you make everyone creep round in silence that you'll have a problem.

Thanks everyone. Seems like I am probably worrying about nothing, so we'll see how it goes when baby arrives!