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anyone else been up since 5? AAAAAAAGH

90 replies

migola · 21/05/2010 06:27

it's beginning to get to me now, am so tired I can't function. How can she be SO wide awake and ready for the day at 5am having only napped once for 45 mins the previous day and woken up every 2 hours through the night (for the past 10 months !

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turtle23 · 21/05/2010 06:31

I've been up since 330 when a delivery man arrived to drop magazines at shop over the road with radio blaring. Then toddler woke at 4 followed by baby at 5. They are both asleep and I am up...

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migola · 21/05/2010 06:32

oh dear turtle. quick go back to bed before they wake up again! sods law though you will just be about to drop off when they wake up. Mine always wake up when I'm just about to settle down with a cup of tea

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NoahAndTheWhale · 21/05/2010 06:33

I woke up at 5:20 all on my own. No idea why I woke up.

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migola · 21/05/2010 06:35

must've been the light noah

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RatherBeOnThePiste · 21/05/2010 06:49

I was up at 6 to test DD on some stuff, she has a big test today. But it is a beautiful morning here, am just enjoying a cup of coffee.

RustyBear · 21/05/2010 06:49

My Dc are both adult so 5 am wakings ought to be a thing of the past. Someone ought to tell that to the magpie that lands on my sky dish at first light every morning.

Do you think a carefully placed live wire would spoil my signal?

Bena1 · 21/05/2010 08:58

Yes, I've been up since 5. No, wait, I've been up since 4! My 13 week old son needs less sleep than I do

There should be a tired face as well for us exhausted mums.

DaydreamDolly · 21/05/2010 09:03

Yup, up since 5 here, like you OP, DD is 10 months old and has never slept through. Woke at 1.30am and 2.30am last night and I had to spend 5 mins each time getting her back to sleep, then she was up for the day at 5am. Yuk.
This early waking has only started happening in the last week and it's exhausting me.

OnEdge · 21/05/2010 09:07

Its just so mindless, why do they do it? Mine woke at 05.30, faffed and grizzled until I had to get up, had a bottle and fell asleep, leaving me awake and fekked. It ought to be illegal.

FakePlasticTrees · 21/05/2010 09:08

up since 5:20am today, DS gave me a lie in...

DaydreamDolly · 21/05/2010 09:39

Onedge I agree we should get them arrested. That'll teach em

mumoffourgirls · 21/05/2010 09:44

i have 3 words..... black out blinds...

DaydreamDolly · 21/05/2010 09:50

Mumoffourgirls, I have 3 words too, already got them.

Myneaux · 21/05/2010 09:59

Me too....up at five and considered that quite a good night for my DS who is nearly a year old.

There is something profoundly wrong about going to bed when its still daylight and getting up in the dark.

The black out blinds thing always makes me laugh....HV tried to say that was why DS was waking up early a couple of months ago. My response was 'have you been up at 4.30 recently?....well its very dark!'

bippyhippy · 21/05/2010 14:54

Oh I laughed reading this thread. Here's a good article on solving early waking that doesn't just suggest blackout blinds!

RustyBear · 22/05/2010 18:11

Well, never mind - if you are woken at 5am on Monday, you can watch the finale of Lost, and then get your revenge on your non-sleep-deprived friends by telling them what happens...

tinks27 · 25/05/2010 05:34

BLACK OUT BLINDS DO NOT WORK!!!!! Was hoping this would be the magic cure, but nope.

am so knackered and the early starts thing is really getting me down.seem to be surrounded by people whose little ones sleep until 7 and that to is adding to my .

have tried it all, it feels like and now seem to dread going to bed. going earlier and earlier. soon to morph back into 12 year old, with school uniform ready at the end of my bed........

help anyone?

thumbwitch · 25/05/2010 05:44

Rustybear, am at your evil intent towards the magpie - I used to have sparrows living in my eaves when I was in the UK and they drove me bats with their scritching and fluttering! But I couldn't do anything abotu them, what with them being endangered an' all.

Black out blinds did help me with DS, sorry. Also having no other source of light or electronic thingies.

What time does your DC wake up, tinks? And what time does he/she go to bed?

tinks27 · 25/05/2010 06:11

she goes down about 6.30. have tried earlier/later. i suppose the latest she has gone down is 7.30 and she still woke up at 5.30!

i keep thinking she is doing 10 hours straight ( wakes anytime between 4.30-5.30) so thats good, but know she really needs longer and she is still tired. she does the chatting/over tired thing. no crying but having a lovely time!. she is definitely still tired. has always woken at this time. hoped she would go longer the older she got. but the last month realised that has yet to happen!!

tried feeding,tried ignoring ( but she IS tired and so then doeasn't feed well when i get her up at 6), tried sleep training bit (it worked for day sleeps, back when she was little). reeaaaaally hoped black out blinds would work but didnt!!

yesterday, but going in and shushing managed to get her back to sleep ( she woke at 4.45) at 6 and she slept until 7.30. its like she has lost the ability to self settle. PLUS think like adults when you go to work same time everyday, her little body clock now wakes her at this time maybe?

she is 6 months. any advice really appreciated. having one of those days

PfftThePinkoLeftyDragon · 25/05/2010 06:23

We have been up since 5:10.

DD recovering from illness and I think that disturbed her. It has been a little earlier each day for the last 3.

I find the light helps though - at least it feels like morning.

BertieBotts · 25/05/2010 06:34

I fell asleep when trying to resettle DS at 1ish, then woke up at half 4 from the sun coming up, and the cat meowing loudly at me, moved to my room with DS, he dozed and nursed a bit and then he woke up properly at 5, was wide awake, so I let him jump around the room for a bit (literally jump, he is so wired in the early morning) and then got up at half 5.

Harimo · 25/05/2010 06:39

Yep... been up since 4:50.. Pretty standard behaviour in our place!!

I also have a 10MO who seems to be able to function on about 100 times less sleep than me!!

My best advice is to give it about 13 years.

I can't get my DSDs out of bed for love nor money!!

tinks27 · 25/05/2010 06:48

my mum said - 'probably sort itself out...when she's about SEVEN OR EIGHT you will look back and laugh'

. I will look about 100 by then. i try and get on with it. but just so effing knackered!!! and having a bad day today.

turtle23 · 25/05/2010 06:58

I got a lie-in til 515 today when toddler started screaming. That's after waking hourly with poorly baby. Is breakfast too early for vodka? lol
THIS TOO SHALL PASS is written all over my house on post-it notes. At one point I had it written on the back of my hand as well til I fell asleep with my hand on my face during the day and went to shop to get milk with SSAP LLAHS OOT SIHT across my face.

Harimo · 26/05/2010 05:57

We're up again!!! Got a lie in until 5.20 this morning!!!!