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How much do YOU sleep?

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Evita · 05/03/2004 21:56

Just wondering how much sleep most mnetters get or hope to get a night. My dd sleeps from 7.30pm-6.30am and I sleep from around 11pm til 6am which is a pretty straight 7 hours and as much as I'd ever have had before dd came along but I feel totally knackered all the time.

How much do you guys sleep? Do you think it's enough?

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charlieplus3 · 05/03/2004 22:01

Whats sleep?

Angeliz · 05/03/2004 22:04

I never go to bed before midnight and EVERY morning i say," this is ridiculous, i'm having an early night",
Guess i'm a night owl! Up at 7 most mornings!
DD usually wanders in around 5 and we snuggle for hours.mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Mummysurfer · 05/03/2004 22:05

about 10.30.til.6.30 7 days a week

collision · 05/03/2004 22:09

If left alone I could sleep for about 13 hours which is ridiculous! I try to be in bed for 10.30pm ish and ds wakes at 8am. I love bed and HATE getting up.

sobernow · 05/03/2004 22:09

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Slinky · 05/03/2004 22:11

I usually go to bed between 11.30pm - midnight and get up at 6.30am (weekdays - bit later weekends). When the alarm goes off at 6.30am I always feel I've never had enough sleep and vow to go to bed early but I never do, end up pottering around/sitting on here/reading.

Angeliz · 05/03/2004 22:16

collision, i'm just like you!
My dad would say every morning," don't talk to Angie, she's just got up", (Of course it was NEVER funny!

lydialemon · 05/03/2004 22:21

I go to bed about 12, and wake up about 7ish during the week. However, over the last 9 days DD has decided to be restless and wake every 2 hours during the night ( after sleeping through for the last 15 or so weeks) so I am very very very tired..........

suedonim · 05/03/2004 22:40

I go to bed between midnight and 1am, read until 2am then wake around 8am. It's not enough sleep!! I sleep in at weekends as dh can't sleep beyond about 8am. I'm a nightowl, and I love mooching around the house when everyone is in bed.

Lisa78 · 05/03/2004 22:54

Sleep... Ahh, a fond distant memory!
I need 7 hours uninterrupted and the odd 10 hours but with a rough pg I didn't get it and although DS2 is 4 months and sleeping thru, I wake every 2 hours to check him...

incywincy · 06/03/2004 02:20

I'm going to bed now and this is normal for me, ds will be up about 8. Its me that needs to establish a bedtime routine not ds as he sleeps from 8 to 8.

Ghosty · 06/03/2004 02:28

Like sobernow, for me it is not sleep I miss, it is just not ever being able to wake up when I want to wake up ...
I go to bed after DD's last feed at about 11pm then she wakes up sometime after 3am for a feed and then I get in a couple more hours until DS wanders in anytime after 6am ...
A couple of nights this week I have gone to bed at 8pm ... but there are two downers about that ... a) No time with DH and b) when DD wakes up at 10ish I feel like I have got up twice in the night IYKWIM?

Blackduck · 06/03/2004 08:13

I'm with Ghosty and Sobernow - it isn't the amount that is the issue, but the 'having to get up' that is.....okay during the week (work anyway...), but lie-ins what are they??? - have to say I never was a particularly late sleeper (9.00 at the outside...) - but it's the not getting the chance anymore .....

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Evita · 06/03/2004 08:26

Yes, me too, it's the getting up when I'm not ready that's the problem. I always used to get up about 8-8.30am so never was a big lie-in person. But 6-6.30 is just against my body clock. And bed before 11pm is against my body clock too! I seem to get naturally awake at 10pm no matter how tired I've been in the day.

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jodee · 06/03/2004 08:26

I'm pretty much a nightowl as well, usually in bed at midnight weeknights - too late really, but then by the time ds is in bed asleep at 8pm, I want to make the most of the evening "me time" and not shuffle straight off to bed as well.

Agree about the waking up as well - I'm so tuned in to ds, as soon as he calls "Muuuummmmmmy!" I'm wide awake (funny how DH 'claims' never to hear him...)

zebra · 06/03/2004 08:27

Um... 7-9 hours/night, about 50% of nights? But quite often it's more like 3-5 hrs. And I can have 2 days in a row like that. Being an insomniac, I keep weird hours.

marthamoo · 06/03/2004 09:43

If I could stay out of the MN bar I'd get more

Usually around midnight to bed, then up between 6 (bad day) and 7 (good day).

I used to LOVE my sleep, pre-kids.

Grommit · 06/03/2004 09:47

Not enough but not bad considering 14 wk baby - 10:00 to 4 and then 4 - 6.30ish. Looking forward to the days when I have to wake the kids up in the morning!!!Seems a long way off though...

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Evita · 06/03/2004 12:31

Oh, yes, I think I've only ever had to wake dd up about twice since she was born! Wouldn't it be lovely to get up, shower and have a coffee before handling them?

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WSM · 06/03/2004 12:35

Generally around 9 hours a night. Although I felt like poo yesterday (high temp and so tired and shaky) that I went to bed the second DH got home at 5.30pm ! Slept through 'til 7.30am this morning when DD woke me.

suedonim · 06/03/2004 12:44

I agree about not being able to wake up at one's leisure. That is pretty bad.

I forgot to turn my alarm off last night and was woken by the Mick Jagger bawling "I CAN'T GET NO SATISFACTION" at the crack of dawn this morning.

sb34 · 06/03/2004 12:50

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marsup · 06/03/2004 14:07

I sleep in lots of 15-minute bursts at the moment, with pauses for back-rubbing, patting and pacing up and down the room rocking. It's got to the point where if s.o takes my baby out of the house so I can nap I still wake up every half hour!

Bron · 06/03/2004 14:37

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suzywong · 06/03/2004 14:42

right there with you bron. Baby the same. I doubt I have slept more than 4 hours in a stretch four times in the last 3 years. I look about 50 no joke. God knows what it's doing to my system and my facial skin will never recover. Brain is mush and don't drive any more, too tired to be responisibley in charge of a vehicle.

Mustn't grumble though, eh?