…or so my children think.
With an 8 week old and a 19 month old, I can’t remember how it feels to sleep in. Sleeping in to us is 8am and I can’t remember the last time I slept that late.
Our schedule usually goes…
7pm – Mini Athlete in bed.
10pm – Little Miss Athlete eats. I go to bed. Husband goes to sleep if Little Miss does – otherwise he stays up with her until she does.
2am – Little Miss Athlete eats. I try to stay up with her if she doesn’t go right back to sleep, but I usually hand her over to my husband instead. My husband can exist on much less sleep then me.
5:30-6:00am – Mini Athlete wakes up for the day. Little Miss usually gets up to eat too.
As I write it out, it doesn’t sound that bad. But there’s something about interrupted sleep that makes you feel like you didn’t get any at all.
Thank God for coffee.
How many hours do you sleep at night? I’ve never been someone who could pull an all-nighter or even stay up all night for a slumber party. I tend to need at least six hours of sleep to feel somewhat human!
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I’m an 8 hour sleeper so know I going to be in big trouble when we have a baby! My husband needs just as much, maybe more, so we are going to have some adjusting to do!…unless we are blessed with a good sleeper….my mom tells me I slept through the night with no feedings by the time I was 3 months old. I’m hoping its hereditary!
I’ve definitely learned to survive on much less now that I have a baby. 6 hours is kinda my minimum less than that and I don’t function well and broken sleep is awful you never rly hit REM and so never feel rested. Hope it gets better soon
My sleep totally varies I either sleep 8 hours (not solid, never solid I have to go to the bathroom far too often for that). Or (and this is the way more common occurrence) I go to bed and somewhere between an hour or two later I wake up to go to the bathroom and can not fall back to sleep and am up for the day. And I’m cranky
I am with you! I really feel that I need 6 hours (in a row!) to feel like a functioning human. Kudos to you for having 2 under 2! I do feel like it’s easier to function on less when you are used to it, although I’m not sure how that’s possible.
I used to sleep 10 hours no problem without an alarm. Then I had a child and it was hell on that 10 hours. Now I need 6.5/7 hours to function. The interrupting was the worst, thankfully my daughter never took too long to put back to sleep. Thank god. The morning still sucks. Every time.
I’m an 8 hour gal and it was difficult for me when I had kids – my son got up every single night for the first year, and then many nights after that. I would stagger after getting up twice and felt like I was run over when I was up three times! I’m talking up for any reason, not just up for a big time feeding. When they were really little I just had to take it slow, nap, focus on raising them and not as many other things. Now I’m 42 and feel it if I get less than 8 hours very many nights in a row, and my face is a dead giveaway – puffy, dark eyes!
Sleep deprivation was the one thing that no one, and I mean no one, could have prepared me for! I’ve convinced myself that I thrive on broken sleep now, but if anyone gave me the chance to just go to sleep and wake up when I wanted, I’d probably not wake up for a week.
First things first…the picture you posted on here of Little Miss & Mini Athlete is SO cute!!!
I’ve found I either thrive on very little sleep or I need alot of sleep. I usually end up making up for my lack of sleep during the week on the weekend. I do alot of my workouts in the evening, so it’s hard for me to get to bed at a decent time.