Who goes to bed at 9 or earlier and does it affect your relationships ?

[Middlesexmummy]

Hi, the title says if all... Just interested really , due to dd s erratic sleeping , getting up at the crack of dawn to get bits done , showered before work and before she wakes means that I often go to bed between 9-930.... 10 pm is positively a late night these days !!! I do feel that it's becoming a bit hard to muster up the energy or enthusiasm to do anything in the evening apart from bed and feel its beginning to affect my relationship with DH. Has anyone else experienced this and any advice ... Thanks in advance

What are you getting up to do at the crack of dawn? Is it something your DH could do so that you aren't so tired at night?

Hi thanks for replying , I work full time and often need to be out of the house by 730am to get dd to nursery so I need to get up earlier than her to get ready and have some time to tidy up etc. my dh does what he can but does shift work so on his rest days he takes her to nursery or at weekend s out so I can have a lie in

Shower before bed, or while your dh is with your dd in the morning.

What little bits are you doing in the morning?

We have a one year old DS who wakes at 5 ish, has still not slept through and we both work full time. We BOTH go to bed at about 9! It's nice actually, we talk and read together for a bit. So for us I think it's fine.

I'm in bed before nine these days but that means that when ds3 wakes for the day @ 5am, I am not too tired. It won't be forever but the days when I go it bed @ 10pm I regret it in the morning! Probably does affect relationship but me in a bad mood from lack of sleep would also affect relationship!

I have a ten week old DS and DP and we both go to bed as early as possible, sometimes as early as 8:30pm, partly because we're nervous about leaving DS alone in our room in his cot for too long and partly due to tiredness.

Last night we put the monitor on and stayed downstairs until 9:30pm! It was lovely to have just those couple of hours to ourselves, as we have been missing each other.

Do you have anyone who could watch LO for a few hours on the weekend, perhaps during the day so you can go see a movie together or go for lunch?