How do you get up?

[TeniBear]

Silly question, probably with an obvious answer I'm overlooking... But when you're co-sleeping, and one of you has to get up in the morning (i.e. for work), how do you wake up without waking baby up?

I realised this morning that even when DH has his alarm set on a very quiet setting, if I'm not in deep sleep, it wakes me up (but usually not him, leaving me to shake him awake anyway ). I can only assume it'll wake the baby up too if they're in bed with us.

How do other co-sleeping mummies and daddies get up for work without waking the little ones?

[tk1999]

Neither DD or I wake up to DPs alarm... I have never woken up to it but surprisingly enough can wake up to an early alarm if I need to.

At the moment DD is either in her bassinette next to my side of the bed or in with me... sometimes DD will move slightly when DP puts the light on but generally she stays asleep... if she does wake then I feed her and she drops back off to sleep (and then so do I LOL)

[Fleur]

DD has been in our room since birth, and is sometimes in her cot, sometimes in our bed.
I'm pretty sure DH's alarm doesn't wake her (although she is waking early ATM - up with the sun )
I tend to sleep through it too, unless I need to, so I think it's just one of those things that you zone out to, KWIM?
ETA - just re-read your post - so it's waking you up, not him ... are you a light sleeper or is he a heavy sleeper? I guess as for bub it would depend on who he / she takes after?....

[TeniBear]

ETA - just re-read your post - so it's waking you up, not him ... are you a light sleeper or is he a heavy sleeper? I guess as for bub it would depend on who he / she takes after?....

We're both fairly heavy sleepers, but usually I'll drift off to sleep first and be in a "lighter" part of sleep when his alarm goes off if he's working the early shift (up at 4ish to start at 5). If he's got his alarm on the loud setting like he usually does, it wakes both of us up.

If he's got a later shift, I won't usually be woken by it at all, but he will. It all depends on when we get to sleep and when he's supposed to start. Don't get me started on how I feel when he works overnights!

[Shanti]

DD is in our bed with us as we co-sleep (she is sometimes in her cot) to get more sleep here.
And yep pretty much when the alarm goes off, all 3 of us are up! Sometimes it would be nice to get up before DD but I think even if I snuck out real quiet she would still hear me She knows my every move.....

[fourthontheway]

It doesn't wake my son, he's 3.5 and he still sleeps through it lol

[Glamourcide]

We seem to have fallen into a routine where the baby and I are both up when DH's alarm goes off anyway. Might be a natural progression from having been woken by it a few times, baby soon gets into the three-hourly routine where feeds are at 6am (when DH's alarm goes off), 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm, midnight, 3am etc.
It happened with both our bubs, and now that DD2 is sleeping through the night, she's usually still up just before DH's alarm goes off... she's content to sit and play in bed while I catch a bit of extra kip (I'm a heavy sleeper so the alarm doesn't bother me), but if she had things her way I'd already be up and out of bed before DH is