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What is in your mind a reasonable time to have to get up?

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oliveoil · 06/07/2004 12:52

Dd stirs at about 5am and grumbles to herself and then stirs again at about 5.30am/6am.

For some reason I find 6am ok but refuse to get up at 5.30am and just listen to her from down the corridor. I am not getting anymore sleep, so why not get up???!!

Does anyone else have this bizarre 'rule'?

She used to be a 7am girl but summer seems to have changed that grrrrrrrr.

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Hulababy · 06/07/2004 12:59

I agree that there is a huge difference between 5:30 and 6am!

I have to get up at 6:30am 3 days a week for work and hate it. So does DD who I have to go and wake. For me the lie-in until 7-7:30am on the other 4 days seems like a huge bonus

CountessDracula · 06/07/2004 13:11

Anything before 7.30am is bad news in my book

Luckily dd usually wakes between 8 and 9!

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oliveoil · 06/07/2004 13:13

8 or 9 , how do you manage that?

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elliott · 06/07/2004 13:13

Well, in my dreams, I think 7-7.30 is reasonable. The time that I 'enforce' however is 6.30 (i.e. i generally treat waking before this as though its the middle of the night). I actually find waking up early does my day more damage than a brief interruption in the middle of the night, if I can then sleep until 7.

elliott · 06/07/2004 13:14

CD, I think we've made it to 7.30 probably less than a dozen times in ds1's entire life!

QueenB · 06/07/2004 13:15

My 1yr old dd wakes about 6.15 every morning (it's amazing isn't it, how they are programmed...) and if she is just grumbling, I leave her until she starts to shout! I don't get any more sleep, but think she needs to understand that she can't get attention as soon as she wants it. Think it's good for her to have some time on her own in her cot playing too. If it's before 7 when I get her up, she plays in my room with toys etc until it's time for breakfast milk. She then goes back down at 9.15 for an hour (saying that, she's crying her head off at the moment!) but usually she's really ready for a nap then. I go back to sleep which is brilliant because getting up that early is torture!!

CountessDracula · 06/07/2004 13:15

God know OO, guess she is just lazy like her parents

Last weekend she woke at 9.45am on sun morning. I do adore her when she does that!

WideWebWitch · 06/07/2004 13:35

I feel like 7am is a reasonable getting up time but dd (7mos) thinks 6am or 6.30am atm, which I can live with. Ikwym, I HATED it when she woke at 5.30 or 5.45am, it's the middle of the night ffs!

florenceuk · 06/07/2004 13:48

I think before 6am is far too early, 6am is hard work and 6.30am OK (only just). Luckily at the moment DS is sleeping till 7am! I wish I had a baby that slept 7-7 - cross fingers for this next one...

3GirlsMum · 06/07/2004 13:49

Never before 7-7.30, although my nephew has always woken at about 6, I guess some children are just early risers.

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oliveoil · 06/07/2004 13:50

It is strange isn't it, this fixation that 6am is ok. Maybe cos cbeebies starts then and you can plonk them in front of the tv while you get the coffee on. Obviously you lot would do that, not me, I would be busy with the finger paints etc

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Fio2 · 06/07/2004 13:51

CD I am so jealous my two think when the sun comes out its time to get up and when it goes in its time for bed ie. 6am up 9pm bed on a bad day

Thomcat · 06/07/2004 13:56

Yeah I'm with CountessDracula on this one, anything before 7.30 is a no-no and thank God if she does wake up earlier she's content to lay there chatting to her teddies and rag dolls so....

On a Saturday or Sunday we don't usually get her until about 8.30 and we have gone as long as 9.30 without waking up and she's perfectly happy and not bothered by this. Thank you God!

I do think that when I was given a baby who slept through and who turned into a child who didn't wake early or cry that soeone was saying 'here you go, have this side of things easy becasue you'll have a lot of therapy/hospital/special needs type stuff to deal with so...'!!

clary · 06/07/2004 13:57

oliveoil LOL at that one. Mine generally get up 6-6.15am but that's fine as I am up 6am for work (and can't really expect them to switch for weekends). Baby got up 5.15 today which was tooooo early. But what we don't know is what time everyone's children go to bed?? Mine are often all asleep by 7pm (5, 3, 1) and certainly by 7.15 unless something amazing has happened (late party eg), so I really cannot complain.

musica · 06/07/2004 13:59

We really are not morning people, and luckily ds and dd wake up between 8 and 9. But the flip side of this is that ds has not had a daytime sleep since he was 2 years 1 month, and they both go to bed at 9 in the evening. So we miss out on the quiet evenings. But that actually suits us quite well.

Blackduck · 06/07/2004 14:05

I'm with everyone else on the 6.00 thing...before 6.00 no way, after 6.00 bearable...ds is tuned to about 6.30 and we ignore him before then (cruel parents...) anything beyond 6.00 (7.30 last Sat!) is a bonus.....
That reminds me, off to London tomorrow so up a 5.30 (grim!)

maisystar · 06/07/2004 14:12

ds sleeps 11 1/2-12 hours but only from 7pm till 6.30-7am. will not sleep the same at a different time ie i would like 8.30pm till 8ish.

before 7 is a big NO now he is 3 1/2 but i once thought after 6am was fab!!!

CD i am very very very very

Galaxy · 06/07/2004 14:14

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CountessDracula · 06/07/2004 14:14

Bear in mind she doesn't go to bed until 8pm, often 8.15 and she will sometimes sing and play in her cot for a while before going to sleep

She did go through a stage of waking early when she was about 1 year old, we did cc in the mornings and have had a civilised time ever since

Northerner · 06/07/2004 14:17

Ds is prone to waking early, he has a blackout blind but he has a tree outside of his window where the dawn chorus strike up at bloody 5.30am. I hate being up before 7am

I'm gonna shoot those bloody birds!

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oliveoil · 06/07/2004 15:34

We live on a main road but still have bloody birds tweeting away .

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codswallop · 06/07/2004 15:34

any time after 6

codswallop · 06/07/2004 15:35

Id made chicken casserole for 8 by 7 30 this am!
and heard ds1 read and made two packed lunches!
I cnat do evenings though

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oliveoil · 06/07/2004 15:39

are you nigella bloody lawson

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Thomcat · 06/07/2004 15:39

LOL and an OMG to that Coddy!