What Time Do You Get Up For The Day?

[Emma1979]

now that dd is a bit older (14 months) i make it a habit never to immediately get her out of the cot when she first wakes... she's usually in there for about half an hour before i get her up... she has toys in there she can play with, but mostly she just shouts or babbles... i usually lay in bed just that extra bit longer and take my time waking up, or if we have somewhere to be that day i run and jump in the shower and get dressed...

she usually wakes anywhere between 6am and 7am... sometimes horrificly earlier, sometimes pleasantly later...

i don't get up before 7am though.... if she wakes early she either needs to amuse herself until its a reasonable hour, or i go lay down in her room with a doona and tell her to go back to sleep, and miraculously sometimes i can get an extra half hour out of her if i lay there with her.

i highly recommend letting your baby learn to amuse themselves in their cot, even for 10 minutes.... its good for them to learn that the cot isn't a scary place they need rescued from, but there own little comfy spot to play or nap. just my opinion anyway.

im not really keen on having a toddler up at the crack of dawn so am wanting to eventually teach her that if she wakes and its still dark she's allowed to play quietly in her room by reading a book, same thing at night, if she's not ready for bed she'll be allowed to read, but not come out of her room... thats how we were all brought up and i think its brilliant... if it will work!! all sounds good in theory.

7am is what i deem reasonable to get up, anything vastly before and it just feels like the middle of the night!! in winter anyway.

[Ginger]

ds wakes up everyday, without fail, at 7.40am.
not too early luckily

[~breeze~]

Lately I've been so lucky with DD waking at about 8:30 but even with that I get up, dress her, give her breakfast & a drink & she'll sit in the lounge room watching Nick jr (dora etc) then I go back to bed until she either comes & gets me up or I'm ready to get up LOL With saying that, the reason she's been getting up late is because she's been sick, going to bed later than usual & usually waking once or twice through the night.

I'm still pretty lucky though, she usually gets up between 7 & 7:30 when she's healthy. Even then I do te same thing with sorting her out & laying in bed to slowly start the day LOL

She did go through a stage for about a month of waking anywhere from 5 to 7 which was awful to get up to, thats when she was around 1 or 2 yrs old.

Dont feel lazy, I think its normal, I definately do it & after reading the other replies in here it looks like there's more of us than I thought

Thanks for starting this thread because I was feeling guilty about not getting up & starting my day at the same time as DD.

[Rach75]

I am not a morning person well I can be if for a reason

I am extremely lucky some days I have had to wake Jack as he might sleep in till 10am or longer most days he wakes at 9am he goes down at 9pm though so not sure if thats the difference but even when he started sleeping thru 10 weeks he wouldn't wake till after 8am

[Antheia]

Yep i agree with letting them learn to amuse themselves if they wake too early. Although that's stopped for us now as my 20mth old can climb out of his cot!

[melham74]

Ds wakes between 5.30 and 6.30 I am not a morning person either but DD gets him up changes his nappy and gives him his weetbix and the kids play with him til I get up about 7.30

[MrsFabuloso]

We went through a period of 5-5.30 wake ups. I just can't funtion at that time. I would get up and give her a bottle then lay on the lounge and watch tv while she played on the floor for an hour or so. Now she's waking at 6.30-7.30 thankfully. I am better at that time, particularly 7.30. If she wakes at 6.30, I will watch tv for a bit, though it can't be too long these days, she's demanding 'num,num,num' (breaky) about half an hour after she wakes up.
I am so not a morning person either.

[shellbell3]

Ash will wake between 7:45- 8am but will happily play in the cot for awhile so I can wake up properly.

[Alex&Jack]

Yep, Lucky mumma here too...
Most mornings are between 8.30 - 9am!! Both boys!!

[aussienic]

I am jealous of you late risers lol... 5-6am is a normal morning here.. I am fine with the early morning though IF I get at least 4-5 hours sleep the night before

[MistyFying]

DS woke up at 4.30am until he was 4 years old. Now he still gets up before the rest of us (usually between 6 and 6.30) but now he's five he likes to make his own brekky and potter around a bit until we get up (usually 6.45am - 7am). I'm definately not a morning person, and have always had to fight the alarm clock to get to work on time (pre-kids) and then had to fight my bad attitude when my gorgeous boy did the "rise and shine" thing a few hours before dawn. Now I still have to get up by 7am at the latest to get the kids to school, or get to work.

[Madissun]

Im so glad you started this thread too!

My DS has just recently started waking at 4am. I put him into bed with me and then he'll wake again at 5.30am which is when he has his bottle. Then he'll go back to sleep in bed with me til about 8am.

I was feeling bad about making him go back to sleep after that first bottle, so its nice to see im not alone! Hopefully soon the 5.30am bottle will become later and later in the morning

Thanks for the thread fiona

[Zee]

Im not a morning person either... regardless if I had 3 hrs sleep or 9 hrs sleep. Im fine as long as I wake myself which dosnt happen very often with a toddler.

DD goes to bed at 8 (sometimes 7.30 if she is really tired) and wakes anywhere from 7.30-8.30.

If she wakes before this its cause she wants a drink which I give her and she goes back to sleep.

There have been times where I have had to wake her at 10am but thats been quite rare.

Luckily in the morning she likes to sit on her lounge or beside me, have her brekkie and watch Dora etc for 2 hrs then goes back to bed for 2hrs.

Without fail she is wanting to go back to bed 2 hrs after getting up for her day nap, sleeps for 2hrs (if longer I wake her) then stays up till bed time.

In her nap time I have been going back to sleep aswell as I sit up till at least 1am and have been having trouble sleeping with bubs moving around most of the night... not that I should be getting used to that LOL

[Trish]

Here's the sad part for me. It's not the baby so much that gets me up early. It's Tehya. She wakes every morning early. Some mornings she even ends up in DP's morning shower, at 5.30 !!

Today she woke at 4.50 and has been awake since. She has pre school today and they don't do naps so she is going to be exhausted when I pick her up.

Mmm might get a nap out of her when she comes home.

Abbey decided to join Tehya this morning and she's up early too.

[Cricket]

Generally, Emily wakes up at 6am to be nursed, and I nurse her in bed. DH gets up at 6:30, and I generally get up a few minutes later - 6:45, or so. That's when the other two girls usually get up - they hear him and want to say good bye! Usually, we're all up and at 'em by 7:00 - when DH leaves for work.

[Lolli]

I quite often doze in my bed while ds lies next to me and looks at his hands (his current favorite activity) I try and tell myself it's good for him... some chill out time to start the day in a peaceful way

[Lulu]

In winter it doesn't matter how early or late they sleep I HATE getting up and avoid it at all costs....so I am up at 7.30 each morning or else my head gets jumped on.

In summer I am up at 6am on my own and I usually LOVE the quiet of the house, the chance to shower and get dressed on my own and I'm set for the day by 8am. Yahoo, I love it. I just wanna hibernate in winter....

[saslia]

We went through a period of 5-5.30 wake ups.

DS is in one of those at the moment Biggest problem with it (apart from being up too early) is he is ready for a nap when I take DD to school.....at least he is sleeping through th e night again