[Closed] Did you all sleep well?

Slept like an elephant thanks, didn't move at all, cheers for asking

Better than usual, only got up once to go for a wee and actually felt ready to get up when my alarm went off.

8day old baby here who woke every two hours from 9 until 7.

Painful.

7 hours of blissful sleep, down at 10 up at 5 😀

I slept like a baby........woke up very hour and cried my eyes out!

15 day old baby in the bed with us waking every 3 hours for feeds and a 2 year old who falls out of bed in the next room.

I didn't need my alarm this morning.

Drove up from That London last night (250 miles), so got home bone tired but wide awake.

Went to bed about midnight, slept the sleep of the dead until about an hour before my alarm goes off; led there fitfully until finally going "bugger it" and getting up early.

So now of course I feel like I could go back to bed and sleep till Friday. Ugh.

Same as usual. Went to kip at 11, fidgeting till 11.30, then slept till about 4am, woke.. slept... woke.. slept.. till 6.30 when my boy came in and I got up to WFH.

My wireless burglar alarm detected a loss of signal from a door sensor in the garage so sent me a text message to let me know at about 3am.

So not great.

Nope. Called it a night about 11 as usual, then lay there dozing till about 1, up at 3 for a piss, did sleep a while but just dozing from about 6. No kids, no driving, just not sleeping very soundly

In bed by 10.30, asleep almost as soon as my head hit the pillow. Ignored the alarm at 6 and slept until 7.

I'm feeling a bit tired but

11:30-3:15 like a log (then wee and water), very rare for me to check the time

Back to sleep fairly quickly

A wake by 6:30 having slept less well second half

Real sympathy with the OP. When our kids were little I slept well except when I was being woken and doing something

Think I was pretty much out cold from 11 till 6.30, but cycle commuting and a lunchtime 8k tends to work that way.

Very soundly, turned in at about 11 (which is late for me) then dozed off, woke about 630, turned over and woke again at 8.

This is not always the case.

I know it's impossible for those that have kids but Boots sell a night remedy (nutrasleep or Boots own) that really helps me nod off. No booze before them though.

I have periods of waking at 4 with mild headaches, once up I'm fine and drink tea and watch TV, bloody annoying it is.

No real idea what you guys with kids have to put up with 😐

Last week was really bad, but this week, fine. Dunno why it goes like that.
Last night, slept like a log. Woke up to The Sundays at 6:25, which was nice.

Teething 1 yr old and a 3 yr old with an ear infection put paid to any ideas of a good nights sleep. Can of Relentless to start the day today

Two duvets. Nice and toasty.

12 hour Night shift on ambulance, just got in and am well jealous of all your lovely sleeps. Off to try to get a few hours before the next one tonight.....

Corvonia night time assisted bliss.

Asleep for 10.30pm, awake again at 3am, cup of tea, back to sleep at 4am, then up at 7am, bout normal and feel fine.

I feel your pain.
Had 2 y/o animalolympics for the last three nights.
He was practising jingle bells from 2 a.m. to exactly 4.31 a.m. Tuesday morning 😯 and then delighted in telling me he had wet on my pillows. grrr.
Last night it was the wheels on the bus and Baby come back by the Equals WTF!!

My biggest problem is waking up

Slept well, about 6.5 hrs thanks. Better than usual, in fact 🙂

While we're talking about sleep, has anyone tried measuring their sleep with one of those monitors? (Activity trackers / smart watches) Are they accurate? And more to the point, are they actually any use??? (Xmas coming up, might be a pressie to myself...)

After 36+ hours awake and working about 20 odd of those I slept well.A bit restless as off for an interview today.

15 day old baby in the bed with us waking every 3 hours for feeds and a 2 year old who falls out of bed in the next room.

I didn't need my alarm this morning.

this /8week old and /3yr old.

I'm doubting whether it's all worth it at the moment. 😐

Nope.

Seem to be in the habit of waking up in the middle of the night, and lying there until I finally get bored and sit up to look at the clock. Which usually turns out to be around 3:30am. Then lie there until I am woken up about 6ish by the missus getting up. Then sit in bed awake until the last possible minute.

My 12 day old son woke up every 3 hours for a feed/nappy change so not a great nights sleep at all...

Just off to bed after finishing my 16th night shift in 19 days.

10 hrs. Very well thanks. Great not having kids

anybody that had more than 4 hours for the last 3 days can F'#+ off 😉

Woke up at 7 and emptied washing machine then went back to bed where I still reside.
In new flat and fitted black-out blinds yesterday so I'm blaming them for not getting up.

Went to bed at midnight after a 2 1/2 hour filthy cold ride.
Discovered 2 year old in my bed with the missus so I opted for the futon in the spare room.
Tried to read a book. Re-read the previous chapter as I didn't remember reading it the previous night. Got 2 pages into the next chapter and fell asleep until the alarm went off at 6.

You chaps with the new-borns waking up every few hours. Suck it up. My eldest used to demand feeding every hour, on the hour, for the first 6 months. He didn't sleep through until he started school. He now needs to be woken up (although only on schooldays, gets up at 6 at the weekend). His younger brother appears to be following the same pattern....

Fell asleep in bed during the weather forecast about 10.30 after a pleasant evening ride and a pint of the Derby Brewerys latest guest ale.

Got rudely awoken at 0.15hrs by MrsMC leaping out of bed shouting "I'm coming!" and running for tbe bedroom door. 😯

Apparently she'd dreamt that LittleMissMC had shouted for her.

Slept OK after that.

Not really. Worked till about 1, then bed with an active work-infested mind. and all of a sudden it's 7 and I'm rushing about getting kids ready. 2 coffee's in and think I need another before I send any work out.

mogrim - Member
While we're talking about sleep, has anyone tried measuring their sleep with one of those monitors? (Activity trackers / smart watches) Are they accurate? And more to the point, are they actually any use??? (Xmas coming up, might be a pressie to myself...)

I use misfit on my pebble. TBH it's vaguely interesting (and free) so I put it on to see but it doesn't really tell me a huge amount - I know how much I sleep and 'deep sleep' seems to vary from 3 to 4 hours mostly with the occassional 2.5ish hours but that doesn't particularly seem to relate to how I feel when I actually wake up.

So in conclusion, I wouldn't go out of my way to get one specially.

Oh and I slept 6:53 last night apparently which sounds about right. Slept well apart from a brief wake up from Nem Jnr at 6 or so because he was awake but he went back to bed to read.

Slept like a log until I woke up and realized one of the dogs had got under the covers and cacked himself... 👿

bed by 11, slept well, up at 7:15.

no kids! 🙂

Yes thanks - out beautiful 6 month old started sleeping from 7 till 7 4 weeks ago - we had 5 months of hell - until 4 weeks ago she never, not once slept for more than 3 hours, it always took 45 mins to settle her again so a normal night meant 5 hours sleep in two shifts, a good night 6 and a bad night none, none at all.

When she started sleeping though it took a week to actually feel tired again - the first 5 days I felt so rough on 8 hours sleep I thought I was ill - it took a week to come down from 'over tired' to simply tired - I feel like Zeus now.

Worked 8am till 10pm without a break (apart from here, ahem), got home, ate, went to bed at 10.45pm and fell instantly asleep. I have no idea if my wife was up with our kids at all but the next I knew it was 7.30am and I was met by a cuddling 5 year old.

When is it Christmas?

Slept like a log until I woke up and realized one of the dogs had got under the covers and cacked himself...

Actually, my waking children now don't seem so bad.

Seriously?

that is AWFUL. 😯

Solid 8 hours as usual.

This is (one of many) reasons why we don't have children 🙂

To all those suffering with young kids waking them up, I'm now revelling in the need to wake our kids up for school every morning. Waltz in at 7:30 switch the lights on, pull open the curtains, peel the duvets back and give them a gentle shake, just for good measure.

It ALMOST makes up for all those years of broken nights sleep 😆

Slept like a log until I woke up and realized one of the dogs had got under the covers and cacked himself...

To all those suffering with young kids waking them up, I'm now revelling in the need to wake our kids up for school every morning.

How old do they have to be for this to happen?

Went to bed around half ten. Got woken repeatedly by my 2.5 year old boy between 11 and 1am. 9 month old daughter woke up at 2am and 4am and needed some settling. My boys nappy had leaked at 5am and needed sorting. Then they both woke properly at half six. I really hate nights 🙁

it's ok pictonroad, he appears to be suffering from a touch of the runs, very much a once in a lifetime scenario. actually feel a bit sorry for the little fella...

Still, it's never nice being woken by the smell of a freshly laid dog egg!

How old do they have to be for this to happen?

10 and 8 🙄

LoCo - Member

anybody that had more than 4 hours for the last 3 days can F'#+ off

😯

Someone's overtired.....

😀

Went to bed at midnight, up at 7, slept very well. Mostly because our 4 year old daughter actually slept through the night, and didn't get into bed with us because she'd had a bad dream/has cold feet/can't find her bunny/doesn't like her bed/etc.

I also enjoy going into the kids room at 7am, flicking the light on and shaking them out of bed for school/pre-school.

Slept like a log until I woke up and realized one of the dogs had got under the covers and cacked himself...

...and this is one of the many reasons why we don't (and if I get my way, never will) have pets.

After a few rough night our gorgeous perfect 9 week old slept for 9 consecutive hours from 8PM - 5AM last night. At one point I had to check that she was still breathing.

I feel like a new man, however I do fully realise that this smugness has utterly doomed me for tonight and the next week or so.

I also enjoy going into the kids room at 7am, flicking the light on and shaking them out of bed for school/pre-school.

Ha yes! there are few things funnier than recently awoken, 'not quite on this planet yet' toddlers.

in bed last night by about 9.30 after core session at the run club, hot water bottle and trashy chick lit, and read my normal 2 pages before drowsy.

alarm woke me up at 6.45

lush.

To all those suffering with young kids waking them up, I'm now revelling in the need to wake our kids up for school every morning.

One of my pleasures in life when they were at home. Sandwich jnr still gets the occasional wake up when he's home to keep my hand in. 😈

I use misfit on my pebble. TBH it's vaguely interesting (and free) so I put it on to see but it doesn't really tell me a huge amount - I know how much I sleep and 'deep sleep' seems to vary from 3 to 4 hours mostly with the occassional 2.5ish hours but that doesn't particularly seem to relate to how I feel when I actually wake up.

So in conclusion, I wouldn't go out of my way to get one specially.

Cheers nemesis, pretty much what I thought.

And lol @ torsoinlake: "Did you put it in a plastic bag and hang it off the lightshade?" 😀

To all those suffering with young kids waking them up, I'm now revelling in the need to wake our kids up for school every morning.

That's my wife's job, I'm off to work earlier. But I do get to enjoy this at the weekend - REVENGE! 😈

Put the boys down at 7pm, 2 glasses of wine and most of a big bag of crisps later was asleep by 10.30pm.
Minime Mk2 woke at 12am with teething issues (read screaming) and decided he wasn't going back to sleep. 5ml of Calpol, lots of hugs and a few choice words later he was finally back asleep at 1.30am.
4am he woke again and was put into bed with us as we couldn't face walking around the house comforting him, cue another 1 1/2 hours of wriggling feet / drooling and poking me in the face (the boy, not my wife). He went back to sleep at about 5.30.
Minime Mk1 then woke at 6.30 wanting a wee, which promptly woke Mk2 up again.
Not enjoying today TBH.

geoffj - Member

To all those suffering with young kids waking them up, I'm now revelling in the need to wake our kids up for school every morning. Waltz in at 7:30 switch the lights on, pull open the curtains, peel the duvets back and give them a gentle shake, just for good measure.

It ALMOST makes up for all those years of broken nights sleep

7:30am?!

You let them sleep in then 😀

I am also in this position now with my eldest, it never get's dull

Someone's overtired.....

And emotional.... 😥

😉

our 2 year old still wakes in the night and gets up at 0430/0500 everyday quite often waking his older sister up too, he's going to make an amazing endurance racer as seems to need no sleep and still remains cheerful (unlike his father)
Still i was in the workshop by 0600 this morning so have done most of todays work already.

Was sick as a dog at about 7ish (but not as sick as fin25's dog!) and slept until 9pm. Was then wide awake and feeling like death until 2 am when my body pretty much shut down.

Awoken by two year old demanding to watch Baby Jake on the Kindle at 4am. So not much sleep but there are worse things in the world than sleep deprivation. Like a dog shitting in your bed.

I'm so glad I let the bed salesman talk me into getting a mattress protector...

Yeah, you've set the bar pretty high there Fin.

ick!

I thought I had a rough night but at least my animal didn;t cack the bed. He cacked in the hall and i stood in it.

Anyone want a free set of catlike slippers because that's what he going to end up being....

Struggling with kids? It doesn't last forever, just feels like it. My youngest took until she was 8 to sleep through the night 🙁

Nothing to see here, move a long please 😳

LoCo - Member

And emotional....

😀

Would you like a cuddle?

our 2 year old still wakes in the night and gets up at 0430/0500 everyday quite often waking his older sister up too, he's going to make an amazing endurance racer as seems to need no sleep and still remains cheerful (unlike his father)
Still i was in the workshop by 0600 this morning so have done most of todays work already.

Wait until they hit their teens, it's like waking the dead, very grumpy dead 😀

aaaahhhhhh man... FML

I did the school run, expecting to get home and potter about a bit and grab a restorative snooze before going to collect the kids, when my little sister turned up at 9.45am in a bit of a state..

She has a presentation for her english lit degree this afternoon and wanted my input (which actually translated to she needed to write the entire presentation today).. soo I've been subjected to an afternoon of unfathomable literary concepts, shaky precepts and linguistic gymnastics, liberally peppered with inane smalltalk.. all this bearing in mind that I don't even have an english GCSE

Summink to do with a walk in the city being likened to a subconscious narrative within the confines of a space metaphor, and a... errr...

In the last chittering monologue she has managed to cover - Her daughter's school play and the injustices surrounding that, leaving her uni mates, violence in the prison system, her husband's speeding fines, and getting a job in a homeless shelter.. all in the same sentence and all delivered without pause to draw breath..

I'd best go pick the kids up and head to the supermarket

No kids, no dogs, but trying to discuss bedtimes with the Miss'us is like talking to Kevin the Teenager.

Got to the point at 1am this morning where I had to go back into the living room and tell her that having MOTD at a volume that I could hear every word 3 rooms away and watching videos on her phone loud enough that I could hear them over MOTD was not acceptable.

Apparenlty it was then my fault she overslept this morning.

Apparently it's her right to go to bed when she wants and I can't tell her what to do. Which is true, but the lack of consideration for others is bordering on psycopathy!

No kids, no dogs, but trying to discuss bedtimes with the Miss'us is like talking to Kevin the Teenager.

Got to the point at 1am this morning where I had to go back into the living room and tell her that having MOTD at a volume that I could hear every word 3 rooms away and watching videos on her phone loud enough that I could hear them over MOTD was not acceptable.

Apparenlty it was then my fault she overslept this morning.

Apparently it's her right to go to bed when she wants and I can't tell her what to do. Which is true, but the lack of consideration for others is bordering on psycopathy!

TINAS' relationship posts are some of the best on here. I would LOVE to meet her. 😀

[quote=thisisnotaspoon ]No kids, no dogs, but trying to discuss bedtimes with the Miss'us is like talking to Kevin the Teenager.
Got to the point at 1am this morning where I had to go back into the living room and tell her that having MOTD at a volume that I could hear every word 3 rooms away and watching videos on her phone loud enough that I could hear them over MOTD was not acceptable.
Apparenlty it was then my fault she overslept this morning.
Apparently it's her right to go to bed when she wants and I can't tell her what to do. Which is true, but the lack of consideration for others is bordering on psycopathy!

earplugs.

TINAS, time for a new patio?

Hitting the usual afternoon lack of sleep related wall of tiredness here 🙁

TINAS' relationship posts are some of the best on here. I would LOVE to meet her.

I think I peaked with the "my one and only forray into domestic vilence" post.

I did explain to Philsconsequence (or was it TSY, or Jamie, I can't remember) that my relationship posts are a bit like trip advisor, I only ever post the bad stuff, 99% of my life's boring.

You can have my dog TINAS, once she's tasted one of his special Dutch ovens she'll never sleep in again...

Not really.

Our 10 week old baby had lulled us into a false sense of security by sleeping from 11-6 for the last few weeks but for the last two nights has decided that he's bored of that and waking up every few hours is more fun. Lying in bed after food and giggling, laughing and generally being noisy is fun too.

Unless you have to be up for work in a few hours time.

I sleep well if I can get through the 3am period when I'm prone to waking (regular phone calls at that time from a mate in the states screwed that bit of my internal clock for a while.). The last few months though I've found I have a sensitivity to the sound of the piledrivers doing the electrification work on the London/Bristol line.
They finished around where I was living and then I moved a few miles out of town to the country, just where they are starting to pass through.
Update: Good news for the folk of Didcot. With the trains stopped over Xmas they plan to be working 48hrs straight over Christmas Day/Boxing Day. I shall be elsewhere...

fin25 - Member
Slept like a log until I woke up and realized one of the dogs had got under the covers and cacked himself...

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To all those suffering with young kids waking them up, I'm now revelling in the need to wake our kids up for school every morning. Waltz in at 7:30 switch the lights on, pull open the curtains, peel the duvets back and give them a gentle shake, just for good measure.

It ALMOST makes up for all those years of broken nights sleep

This. Our two girls are now 8 and 9 and it's only been the last year where the tables have mysteriously turned and I'm no longer woken at random times between 4:30 and 6:30am by one/both of them asking for me to go downstairs with them to sort food / tv / lights / something to amuse them. Neither slept well from birth and now it's my turn 🙂

Like a log, thanks to 2 Tramadol 🙂