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

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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.

I cant stand the smell of frying on my clothes - so did it all in sexy negligee .

ds2 ans baby are having some for lunch and we will have some for supper.

mind you after 8pm I am crap

( for that read pjs)

Anything before 7am is night time IMO.
We have a lovely lazy ds here too. 13-14 hrs a night. He's always been a fab sleeper. 2 hours' nap after lunch too

Bedtime at 7pm and dh wakes him at 8:30am before he goes to work. At weekends we get 9:30am occasionally. He has definitely inherited comfy-bed-loving genes.

Cant say we have any particular patttern - it usually goes in phases.

DS will sometimes wake at 6.15 for a couple of weeks and then other times we need to wake him at 7.00 in the week in order to be out of the door on time - he goes to bed no later than 7.30.

I have a STRICT rule that nobody gets up before 7. Any earlier than that is treated like nighttime - he is usually pretty good about it and stays quiet until I get him. This is my only totally non-negotiable rule.

On the flip side he often sleeps in on the weekends and we get to lie in until 8.30/9 and if we are lucky even 10am on a couple of occasions.

He has blackout blinds and doesn't sleep in the day btw...

6.30am earliest. Blackout linings for the curtains are a godsend! My 2 nearly 5 year olds are sleeping until 7.00am at the moment and I'm praying for it to last!

Dd often stirs around 6.30am but I try to never get her up before 7am. Sometimes she sleeps til 7.30-8am, a bit unpredictable really.

Ds is usually up around 6am which is bearable but the last two mornings have been 5.15...grrrrr. I leave him grumbling until he starts shouting and then it's downstairs, milk and Baby Beethoven while mummy lies on the sofa and 'rests her eyelids' Bad mummy.

Then again, I shouldn't complain too much. He's 12 months and has only just started sleeping through at all. Little darling...

Well, 9am is a suitable hour for me, but alas for some bizarre reason, school insists on starting at 8.35am

So for 5 days a week, my little alarm goes off at 6.30am, which I then "snooze" until about 6.50am when I drag myself to the shower

Roll on holidays

MofS - I'd swap your DS for my DD if it wasn't for the fact I love her to bits

Do you slip a sleeping pill in his milk?

basically when the milkman rings the doorbell at 7.30 is a good time to get up (milk will get stolen if he doesnt ring the bell so i can get it). b4 that the girls can get up and play as long as they let me sleep untill the bell rings.

When I was on maternity leave ds used to sleep until 8.30/9.30 ish which was bliss... but then had to go back to work and now have to wake him at 7, latest. Which means he now wakes up any time from 6 onwards. Grrrrrrr.

Aaah, Countess, smug parent time. The sluglet is put in bed at 7.30 every night and is very grumpy if we get her up before 8.30am at the earliest. Quite often we can hear her singing to teddy, or arguing with him till 8 or 9pm. It's hell on those mornings when she goes to her grandparents and have to be out of the house by 8am. If she had her way she'd sleep till at least 9 every morning.

When she was very little and I was still breastfeeding my cut off point was when the heating started up in the morning. If I could hear the boiler going then it was OK to stay awake, otherwiuse it was back to bed after the fed.

Always had earlish risers (embryologist must have made a mistake ), but bunny clock and star chart means that ds1 will stay in bed until 7. Ds2 wakes somewhere between 5:30 and 6:30 but if we give him a bottle of milk will doze until 7:30ish. We get up at 7. Bathtime is 6:45 with ds2 settled just after 7 and ds1 settled 7:20-30.

All sounds a bit military but I really don't "do kids" in the evenings... Can't imagine life in a few years time when they're expecting to be up later.

HAve to admit we will also give ds1 (age 3) a bottle of milk if we think it will keep him asleep for longer...

I am no good before 8am in the morning, can't seem to get myself out of bed. But will get up at 7.30 at a push. I'm worse in the winter, I find it even harder to drag myself out of bed. Luckily dd will sleep until 7.30 - 8.30 depending on bedtime the night before.