How much sleep do YOU honestly get...and is it ever enough?!

[madmumNika]

Title says it all!... Just out of interest how much sleep do you mummies actually get on average each night? And do you feel refreshed enough by it?

I have DS (2.6) & DD (5 months), and as DD has just started sleeping longer stretches I get on average 5-6 hrs uninterrupted per night- when neither DS or DD are pooly, teething etc. I don't get more partly because there is always so much to do once DCs are asleep so I go to bed late (at least midnight), and I know I should go to bed earlier as am pretty tired...but can't help myself !! Would love to hear what other mums are getting & how they cope fitting everything in to each day!!
xxx

I doubt I get 5 hours uninterupted. These days it varies but if I said on an average bad night 6 hours broken several times. On a good night I might get 7 broken twice.

oh lordy, I daren't post. You'll be throwing virtual bricks at me.

On an average night 7 hours. One a good night 8 (usually always asleep by 11pm) and dd (16 months) usually wakes anywhere between 6am and 7 30am. That said, I usually have to be up by 6 45 latest on work days so dd and I can be out of the house by 7 45. On a bad night (like last weekend when she was teething)then probably 5 max and that would be broken.

about six hours.

But that's broken up. Generally, between them, they are up two or three times a night (and that's if we give in straight away and let them into our bed - if we try to keep them in their own beds, it's 9/10 times, every night)

and no, it's not enough.

Sometimes it's just enough but other times I find myself falling asleep over breakfast, or ten minutes before collecting dd2 from nursery...

I would say about 5 unbroken; bed by 10.30, for no apparent reason (unless dd wakes) I seem to wake up at 03.30ish, hear dh snoring take myself off to the back bedroom to be woken at 05.30 by dh's alarm - ho-hum

7 hours if they don't wake me by muttering/calling out - I wake up at their least sound.
Add my insomnia tendencies to the mix and I'd say I get 7 hours in a row about once a week.
I try not to think about how tired I am and just crack on. If I dwell on it I get nasty to be with

Im lucky if I get 1 hour unbroken at the moment, im 39+3 weeks pregnant so not sleeping at all.

When not pregnant, can usually manage 4-5hrs unbroken, with about 7 in total.

Need a lot more than that to function though, before kids, I was a 10hrs a night girl.

well my kids sleep for 12hours

but i only get 5 or 6 because im an idiot and spent too much time watching youtube

About 6 hours here. DD (21 months) usually wakes me at some point during that, but not enough to make me have to get up and wake up properly (unless ill/teething).

I tend to get less at the weekends though, as dh is home (abroad during the week) and always keeps me waiting to go to sleep, then wakes me during the night or early either with snoring or because he's forgotten to turn off alarm or reminder on phone/blackberry/random other electrical gadget.

It's not quite enough. Occasionally (but only recently) I get 7 hours, and that feels great!

At the moment, about 6 hours, with three interruptions for feeding (ds2 on a growth spurt). I can't keep it up for much longer.

about 8 hours but thats broken up
I'm woken every 1 1/2 to 2 hours by gecko and then sometimes by dd2 aswell

I always feel like I've been run over

6-8 hours and no it's not enough. Am currently permanently knackered and run-down and am developing a serious caffeine addiction.

On a very good night DD sleeps 7pm to 5.30-6am. I go to bed at 11pm so get between 6 and 7 hours uninterrupted.

Sadly it is more common to have those 7 hours interrupted at about 2am and be up for 30mins before co-sleeping for the rest of the night.

I have always needed lots of sleep. Ideally 9 good hours. As a result I am always tired.

Just out of interest, madmumNika, what are you doing til midnight every night? Sorry to be nosey, but I'm imagining you doing house stuff.

With me these days it's not so much the sleep (have got ds1 3.2, and ds2 18 mths - don't think ds2 has ever slept through without waking once at least) or rather lack of it, like most of us I get maybe 5-6 hours, usually broken. What I need as much as the sleep is "me" time, or rather time with dh too. I need to have chores done by 9pm if not earlier so we can have an hour off to just do whatever (usually just parked on the sofa).

I'm just curious because it would kill me to be up til midnight every night. Apologies if you are up til that time studying or something equally worthwhile!

6/7 hours broken by DS2.

last night however, he slept right through so I slept from 8.00pm to 7am!!!

Between 6-7 hrs a night but it is always broken sleep i get woken between 1-5 times a night by dd.

I know i should go to bed & try to be alseep by 9pm but i can't i find after kids are both asleep i like time for "me" as i am with them everyday all day.

Some nights i have no choice but to go to sleep early though because i am shattered.

around 7 ours per night often disturbed though because I need the loo or just wake up!!! I have found it pretty impossible more than 7 hours because I think my body is so used to 6 solid hours being the normal. That's 11 years of having children for you though. Rarely can I get to sleep before 11pm and more usually it's around midnight and then up 7 - 7.20am

Probably on average 6hrs but its always broken sleep.I usually wake up every 2 hours during that time and sometimes live on 4 hrs if I've had bad night.Find it extremely hard to switch my mind off so takes me ages to drop off-doesn't help that DH thrashes about in the night and sounds like a freight train with his snoring....I'm like a zombie most days.

I have had very few unbroken nights in 4.5 yrs. I only survive by going to bed at 10.30.

In a weird way it's good to know everyone is getting less than we probably want/need...! I was just curious because the tiredness is really hitting me, nearly crashed on Monday as had to drive for 2hrs with DD and no matter what I did the car was lulling me to sleep- had to pull over for 20 mins then find a garage for some coke!! I was hoping to give up caffeine but think I may cease to function altogether if I do (although only have 2 cups a day as BFing).

I'm up late doing a few useful things and quite a few silly things (like spending too much time on the internet)... I am working on a PhD part-time and try to do at least an hour each night once everything else is done...but also find myself doing housework at bizarre hours or getting caught by something on TV.... And DD can be a real night owl and not settle until v late... I'm just plain bad at going to bed when I should!!

4-5 hours a night. I have no trouble getting to sleep but frequently wake in the very early hours and can't get back to sleep for 2-3 hours. I am just used to being permenantley (sp) tired.

DD is 5yo and we normally go to bed around 10:30-11pm and wake for work at about 6:15am (6:30 on non work days, later at weekends) - so about 7 hours or so. DD normally sleeps through these days but still has the odd time (maybe once afortnight) where she will wake in the night. I think we are getting a reasonable amount of sleep - always shattered though, lol!

When she was little she didn't sleep through until she was 20 months onld, after resorting to some very quick CC. Then she would wake in the night a fair bit and I was very tired.