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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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Evita · 06/03/2004 15:08

Lucky you WSM!

Poor you suzywong and bron. Broken sleep's a killer isn't it. And I know what you mean about feeling aged by it. I've been having a minor 'identity crisis' lately as I feel I'm beginning to look really old and worn down. I got some photos out from only 3 years ago and I swear I look 10 years younger. I always look a mess too. And tiredness makes me feel kind of grubby even if I've just had a shower.

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Jinty123 · 08/03/2004 06:09

Oooh soooo glad to hear I'm not the only one who is still sleep deprived and probably will be for at least another 2 years!!! DD is not a great sleeper, even though we are now co-sleeping. She's 10 months old btw.

I usually go to bed at around 8.30pm and get up at 5.30 (if I'm lucky and dd sleeps that long). To get her ready for creche and me ready for work

But sleep is still broken during the night when dd is restless or if she hasn't eaten enough during the day and needs a bottle at night.

Hulababy · 08/03/2004 08:39

My DD is 23 months and since Christmas I have had much more uninterrupted sleep. DD now sleeps from about 7:30pm to 7am (6:30am on a work day). Me and Dh then normally sleep from 10:30-11pm to 7am (6:30am on work days) so 8 hours ish. Before CC at Christmas that was so interrupted though

CookieMonster · 08/03/2004 09:20

Before dd I used to need a good 8 hours sleep a night to be anything like human. dd is and always has been a bad sleeper and so over the last 3 years I can count on one hand how many nights I've had more than 5 consecutive hours sleep. Over that time my body has gradually adjusted to needing less and less sleep and now I survive on around 5 hours and that is always broken.
Because dh is working part-time at the moment, I am taking the opportunity to let him do the night shifts while I sleep in another part of the house with ear plugs in but I still wake every couple of hours out of habit.

Clayhead · 08/03/2004 09:25

6 month old ds still waking avery 1 1/2 to 2 hours, so not much sleep here

CountessDracula · 08/03/2004 09:39

Go to bed between 10 and 12 and up between 7 and 8.

At the moment am sleeping lots in the day too with stupid GF

2under2 · 08/03/2004 10:02

went to bed at 10 last night - up from 1:30 - 1:45 feeding 3.5 months old ds, up again 4:30 refusing to feed ds and walking him around instead - eventually gave in at 5am, ds back to sleep at 5:30, dd2 up for good at 5:45. Oh well.. at least I got lots of ironing done this morning.

StripyMouse · 08/03/2004 10:23

like many have already said, it isn?t the lack of sleep so much as the lack of control. As much as I love my two girls, I really resent having to get up at their "whim" and needs, not my own. Selfish, I know, so I try not to take it out on them but am fed up of being used to being exhausted that it is now the norm.

dinosaur · 08/03/2004 10:50

I don't mind so much being woken up in the night, but I do hate persistently having to start the day at 6.30 a.m. or earlier

At the moment the DSs sleep until at leat 7.15 a.m. and quite often have to be turfed out of their pits at 7.45 a.m. which is bliss compared to 6.30 a.m.

Can't believe I am daft enough to have another baby and go back to early mornings!

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Evita · 08/03/2004 21:29

It's the early mornings that get me the most too. In a way when dd was much younger and woke once for a night feed but slept til 8ish in the morning I felt much more well rested. When she gave that feed up, even though I got a solid block of sleep, it's been the 6amish wakings that really get to me. I just don't feel mornings should start until at LEAST 7am ...

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fisil · 08/03/2004 21:37

In bed by 10 (usually nearer 9). Alarm goes off at 5:45, out of bed by 6. Ds of course gets up when he hears me - and is so much in the habit that he is usually up by 6:30 at the weekends too!

Maternity leave was luxury - got to sleep til 8 most mornings, and could usually haul ds into bed for a milky cuddle before starting the day.

Slinky · 08/03/2004 21:51

Got 3.5 hours last night (and no fault of the kids either!)

Had a friend down to stay last night as we were all attending a funeral today. Haven't seen each other for 10 years, so after his arrival at 8.00pm, sat up drinking beer and chatting - I think I finally crashed into bed at 2.50am!

Alarm went off at 6.30am.

Watching "Life Begins" then I'm off to bed

Bronze · 23/03/2004 11:00

well last night was a killer. ds was up hourly for at least twenty minutes each time. I'm dreading my future life as I've just found out I'm pregnant again. Ok last night was particularly bad its normally every two hours on a good night but he is a year in two weeks.

kiwisbird · 23/03/2004 11:10

me... 11-7 most nights
dd 17 mths sleeps 6.30pm to 8am most nights...
Waiting for it to end...
sob
Still always feel knackered though

Crunchie · 23/03/2004 11:22

I have such a different body clock than DH, he is a nightowl and I am more of a lark (well one that still likes to be in bed until 7 - 7.30!!)

One of my major reasons for dithering about having another child is that my 2 (aged 3 and 5) get up, come in for a kiss and then go downstairs and put the TV on themselves I go back to sleep for a bit Why would I want to start again with sleep deprivation??

Hulababy · 23/03/2004 12:12

On the 3 days a week I have to be up for a work: bed at 10-10:30pm (ish)to read and watch TV, lights out at 10:30-11pm; I have to get up at 6:30am. Total = about 7.5 hours

Other days: lights out around 11pm, up at about 7am (when DD wakes me, rarely later than 7:30am). Total = 7-7.5 hours again

suzywong · 23/03/2004 12:15

Sleep? Sleep? Ha! Ha! hahahahahahaaaaaaa

lou33 · 23/03/2004 12:36

I get to bed about 1-1.30 and up about 7.40. Usually get woken by ds2 most nights as well. Saturdays I get a lie in until 12, bliss.

twiglett · 23/03/2004 12:42

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nutcracker · 23/03/2004 12:44

I usually go to bed at around 11pm and then get up at 6:30am. I usually get up to ds a couple of times in the night though. Not because he's really awake, but becuase i can hear him fidgiting (sp ??). His cot is right next to me.

M2T · 23/03/2004 12:44

I sleep from about 10/11pm until 6am. Always broken though as ds still cries to come in beside us to sleep. Plus I'm getting up twice a night to pee!! (preggers too).

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Evita · 23/03/2004 20:53

It seems so few of us get a really good night's sleep. It's short and what there is seems often to be broken. No wonder we're all quite mad ...

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sweetkitty · 31/03/2004 20:39

wow after reading all the stories I am now very afraid. If left alone I can gladly sleep 14 hours a day 12 hours at night and cat nap in the afternoon. Occasionally for work I have to get up at 3am and do a full days work before travelling home again and it kills me. I am preying this baby takes after me and loves to sleep.

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Evita · 01/04/2004 20:10

I take it you're expecting your first baby sweetkitty? I was never a big sleeper before I had dd, but I must confess that even for me it was a bit of a shock! It's the broken sleep as much as anything, and the early mornings when you're not ready to wake up. But you do adjust. Sort of. To be honest I'm exhausted almost all the time.

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