Four to five hours max. DS is a diabetic and I have to continually check on him throughout the night. I'm one of those people where if my feet hit the floor I'm up for at least an hour afterwards - sometimes more.
Four to five hours max. DS is a diabetic and I have to continually check on him throughout the night. I'm one of those people where if my feet hit the floor I'm up for at least an hour afterwards - sometimes more.
I have a child with Type 1 too and I know what you’re talking about. It is so, so difficult. I can thankfully get right back to sleep and that’s saved me. I can’t imagine how disruptive it must be to not be able to go back to sleep! It’s like having a perennial newborn. We should talk shop. I’m looking into some of the “closed-loop” systems new to the market to help me with nights!
About 7, I don't need anymore than that. I am a nightowl, but don't have to be up early and my kids are independent in the morning as they are 16 and 13.
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Not enough this summer. I have to drive DD to swim practice at 5:45 am, so that knocks about an hour off my sleep in the summer
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DD (3/06)
DS1 (7/09)
DS2 (8/13)
I usually go to sleep some time between midnight and 1am. My alarm is set for 7am, and I think if I got to sleep until then I’d be fine, but I wake up multiple times in the night to my husband’s CPAP machine, and he gets up at 5:30am, and I always wake then, too. I can usually fall back asleep, but that sleep is poor quality and often filled with dreams/nightmares. I always feel less tired if I just get up. I’ve definitely considered insisting on separate bedrooms, and we do sometimes take breaks just for me to try to catch up a bit on sleep, but it’s not a good long term solution for us. I’d like to fall asleep earlier, but I’m usually super exhausted while I’m putting the kids to bed and then catch my second wind before I have a chance to go to sleep. Then I just can’t fall asleep until after midnight. I’ve been sleep deprived my whole life, though. I never slept as a child, either, and my DD is the same way. If we miss her sleep window, she’s going to be up really late! I have often wondered what I might have been able to accomplish in life if I had ever been fully rested! My whole life I’ve probably averaged about 4-5 hrs per night. It’s not nearly enough.
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I need at least 8 hours to be fully functional, and the more of those hours are before midnight, the better.
I'm usually in bed between 10-10:30 and asleep between 10:30-11. Then up around 7. And I usually take an afternoon nap while DS naps. During the school year the kids were both up shortly after DH gets up, about 6:45. They have been staying up later lately and it's been 7 am for wake up. I really should try to be asleep by 10, but it's so hard in the summer.
Mama to :
DS1 (July 2011)
DD (Feb 2014-June 2015)
DS2 (Apr 2017)
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it."
--Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird)
7-9. I have to go to bed early to get it, but I have to have it.
Thinking about this discussion since I was up past midnight last night (not voluntarily) and got less than 7 hours of sleep. I felt like crap when I woke up this morning and have been tired and grumpy all day!
DS 2/14
DD 8/17
I go to bed when DD does (ideally, this is 8pm) but am often up reading for another hour or two. If DD is cooperative, we can read together, but she has to do her bedtime routine at 7:30pm.
Typically, I need about 8 hours, though I can function on 6.5. Sometimes, I take a nap in the morning after DD and DH have left for school & work, respectively, but I have to get out of this habit because I need to step up the job hunting game.
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Liz
DD (3/2010)
"Make mistakes! Get messy!" - Miss Frizzle
11-5.30 am to work out.
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