Mum and Dad's Bedtime

[ghengis]

What time do you go to bed? I am a SAHM and still up at 23.15 but DH is at work full time and goes to bed at 22.00 or maybe 22.30 during the week. He is usually up and about at 6.50am in order to leave the house at 7.15am.

Am I a nightingale married to a lark?!!!

Hardly ever go to bed before midnight. Usually nearer 01:00 and up at 7:30. No wonder I'm always knackered! Hate going to bed early, it's MY time. I only get up at that time because work/school (ie others) dictate I do. The larks have power in this world!

I guess it depends how much sleep you need.
Bot DH and I work from home (now) and we get up at around 7:30, 7:45 (on a good day) - we aim to be in bed at 2230... and see I am on Mumsnet and it's past my bedtime.... plus DH is shouting : Can I go online now please....

So we try 2300 (on average)

I'm normally in bed just after 10pm but on the nights when dh goes out, I go out too but in a virtual sense to a chat room and usually go to bed around 11ish. I went to bed at 11 last night but have found myself awake and unable to sleep so I'm back in front of the pc again since 3am (did that last night too). The kids normally wake up between 7 and 7.30 even on weekends or during holidays.

Bed at 9.30 and up at 5.30 am. 10.00 is a REALLY late night! My life is so sad

I'll have to show this thread to dh. He thinks I'm abnormal because I go to bed at 22.15, or at the latest 22.45. He doesn't go to bed til about 1am (sometimes later, occasionally at midnight). We both get woken at 7am by dd - and sometimes she still wakes briefly in the night - even at the weekends. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who needs a lot of sleep!

Asleep by 11.30 and up at 7.30-8.00..heavenly and I am treasuring these nights.. I've got until June!

ghengis i think you are and so am I

Oxocube, I am with you on this one. Bed at 9-9.30 up anytime between 5.30 and a luxury lie in at 6.30! The up side is that my friends across the road think we must have an amazing sex life

I usually go to bed around 10ish & get up at 7 to makde DH's sandwiches but then often go back to bed with a coffee and a book ........ my friends know not to ring me before 9am!!

Lindy - can't he make his own sandwiches?

I am not usually in bed before midnight and neither is dh unless he is working dayshift the next day when he gets up at 4.30am. No way I would be making his sandwiches

Mears - ha ha - yes, of course he could but, not wanting to sound slushy, I have a very, very comfortable life as a SAHM (by choice), he works incredibly long hours, often away on business etc etc & with just one DS to look after, I really don't begrudge 10 minutes to make the sandwiches, I certainly don't spend the rest of day rushing around doing housework etc - I'm too busy enjoying myself!!

DH and I always go to bed at the same time - sad??? Normally around 10-10:pm on 'school' nights, usually read in bed for half an hour so then. At weekends, it is usually a bit later but not much.

On the 3 days I work I get up at 6:30am; rest of week it is between 7:30 and 8:30 depeding on how long I can persuade DD (10 months) to stay and have a snuggle for! DH gets up at about 7am on week days, later during the weekends.

Go to be around midnight; up at 7am to get DD ready for school. Rarely vary from this even at the weekend.

Never, ever early enough and I can't get up early in the morning either. I think I was designed for the night-shift. DS2 has taken to sleeping until 9.30am (I am not gloating, just appreciating it for the time being as I know this will not last for long) and I find it so hard to get out of bed before him. DS1 has to be at playgroup at 9.30am three mornings a week so this presents us with a problem.

I work evenings so If its a late one I go to bed well after midnight,if i finish round 9 pm im in bed around 10-30,dh works early shifts so he is up at 4-30am and usually in bed before I get home from work.We always used to go to bed at the same time so now I really miss him and love the weekends when we get to go to bed together.

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I'm very rarely in bed later than 9.30, I've even known dd1 to go to bed after me (she's 4), I'm a very bad sleeper, it can sometimes take me about 2hrs to get off and it's the same getting back off to sleep after getting up with dd2.

After a couple of months it catches up with me and I get a really bad migraine and then can sleep the clock round, it's a vicious circle really.

Dh makes me sick, he's one of these people who can be asleep literally within seconds of getting in bed whilst I'm still laid there.

Chiccadum - do you go to bed too early then if you have difficulty sleeping? Just a thought. Maybe if you went later you would fall asleep more quickly IYKWIM

We go to bed usually between 9.30 and 10.00 pm. DH up anytime from 5 am, me usually between 7-8 am with DS.

Claireand rich, No its not sad, my Dh and I go to bed the same time as well. I think its nice.

Chiccadum, I used to have problems sleeping, I used to get into bed and then my brain starts to work overtime. Have you tried having a lavender bath, warm milk before you sleep. maybe try herbal sleeping tablets for a while. I know there is nothing worse than being shattered and not being able to get off to sleep. My DH too seems to be asleep 10 seconds after his head hitting the pillow.

Great question... I've often wondered if we were the only ones having to go to bed for 10/10.30pm. Would stay up til 11/11.30 if my body could cope!

Now I wonder what time people get up if you have school children especially. I have heard of people who get up to do housey type things before the children wake but that would only wake our children up or that's my excuse at least so I live with a cobwebby house and hate it!

I go to bed between 12 and 1 usually, closer to 12 if I can, and if it's term time then I am up about 7.40. School holidays I get up when the youngest 2 wake, usually about 9ish, but hopefully like today they don't wake until 10!!

Dh goes to bed about 2am and gets up about 8.15. He tends to go back to bed with ds2 though in the afternoon for a nap.

When I go to bed at that time I am sat on the sofa absolutely shattered and I look like a nodding dog as I'm falling to sleep. But by the time I get in bed I'm wide awake again.

I go to bed about 10.30...give or take half an hour or so. I'd like to be in bed by about 10 but it rarely works out that way. Up at about 6.45am...awake at about 7.05am (after my shower! ) and able to function properly by about 7.30am (after my cup of tea )

I always PLAN to go to bed at 9pm ... but I am rarely in bed before 11pm ... because I just can't stop looking at Mumsnet!!!! If I go to bed later than 11pm then I am in a foul mood as I know I will be shattered the next day.
DS wakes anytime between 5am and 7am so I am usually awake from 5am waiting for him to wake up (which I really hate)... I so envy those whose kids sleep past 7am ...
DH is one of those people who will go to bed when he is tired (could be 9pm or could be 1am) and will wake up early the next morning fully refreshed and raring to go ... (sometimes I REALLY hate him )
I think DS has inherited DH's sleep gene and not mine ...
Oh .. at the weekends we take turns in having lie ins ... I usually still have to get up with DS but will go back to bed at 7.30am and zonk out till 10am and when it is DH's turn he doesn't go to sleep but he has a cup of tea in bed and reads the paper until 9am ... ish

DP and I usually fall asleep on the sofas at around 10.30pm ish, only to be woken at about 11.30 ish by ds screaming down the monitor!!! We both have to get up at 6.15am to get ready for work. Sometimes we have a late night (midnight ....ooooo life on the edge!!!), but suffer for it in the morning.

hmb - a sexlife?? What's that???