Sleep Poll

[ct]

How much sleep do you get at night?

[2brides]

about 8hrs a night.

We typically get into bed not long after the kids and I read/watch tv till 10ish. If L is watching something I don't care about sometimes I fall asleep earlier. Sometimes we are watching something good and it is closer to 11. I often wake up with L's alarm/showering at 5am and can't go back to sleep - but I don't get up. I have to be up at 6:15 during the school year and tend to wake naturally by 6:30.

[bluedaisyus]

I have insomnia, so I consider myself lucky if I get in bed by 12:30am. My alarm goes off at 6:30, so 6 hours at most on a weeknight. Luckily I just have problems actually falling asleep, once I'm out I'm out. Thank goodness for a toddler who STTN has a later bed/wake time.

[twotrue]

I go to bed between 12a and 130a. My alarm goes off at 620 and I stumble out of bed sometime between then and 715a. Not the best sleep habits and I should probably change.

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[thiswillbe]

I get about 5 hours a night. Which is not enough. Especially since those 5 hours are interrupted twice (one time per kid, when they wake up and cry/ask to come sleep in our bed). And once the kids are in bed with us I have about an 8-inch place on the bed (I am not exaggerating-- it's not even enough room for me to lay on my back, just on my side with one kid attached to my back and another squished up against my front), so it's not like those are quality hours of sleep. (Hmm, when I spell it all out it becomes clear why I'm so exhausted all.the.time.)

I've been trying to make myself go to bed earlier, but I really crave that wind-down time at the end of the day, and our day isn't typically done (kids in bed, kitchen cleaned up from dinner) till 10 PM.

[kershnic]

Bed usually around midnight... we try for earlier, but it never seems to happen. My alarm goes off at 7:20. So about 7 hours. On RE mornings alarm goes off at 6:10.

[cymru]

Around 4 hours. I have to wait for Scoop to get home from work to take over Annie duty. I go to bed around 5:30 or 6, then I get up at 10pm to go to work.

[ElsaVonM]

5-7 hours. We split the night - we both do the 10pm feeding and Jen goes to bed around 10:30. If they both go down easily I sometimes sleep from 11p-1a. (Sometimes one is up fussing, last night I stayed up to apply for a job, sometimes I just want to watch TV and unwind, etc.) I do the 1a feeding by myself, change them and get them back down, and then I'm "off" from 2a-7a and always sleep during that time.

[ssg73]

I get less in the summer. During school I am never up past 11. I am up at about 6/6:30 and out the door by 6:50/7 am. In the summer I stay up later but only can sleep until E wakes up usually around 7. Although she woke up at 5:45 today. BOO.

[Duchess1]

I get between 3 and 6 hours a night. Mostly 4-5 hours. Not good at all. I just can't bring myself to go to bed and give up all that peace and quiet. I will have to change my ways soon because LMC and PBS are starting school in September!

[tattooedmeegs]

Hm, about 7 hours. We turn off the tv and get ready for bed at 10... but sometime (like now, ahem) I get sucked into the computer a bit when checking my email one last time. So I'm in bed anywhere between 1030 - 11, asleep by 1045 - 1130. Then Travs alarm goes off at 530, Gwen wakes and comes to bed with us anytime between 5 and 6... normally I can get back to sleep, but I have to be up by around 620.

[eratmama]

Generally about 7---on a good night, up once to feed Punkin. Usually go to bed about 10:30, wake up about 6am with Punkin. Realistically--give him his nuk 17 other times, and half of the time Carrot has an accident, too.

[2brides]

I feel like a lazy bum compared to you ladies!

Perhaps I am making up for 3.5y of waking multiple times during the night.

[ct]

Yeah, i dont know how some of you function!

Now that everyone STTN we get about 8 hours ever night. I go to bed between 10-11 and get up between 6-7 (closer to 8 on the weekends).

[hlke]

I get 7 or 8 hours with no kids. The sleep deprivation is one of the things I'm not looking forward to about parenting!

[hensmum]

I get about 7 hours usually. We go to bed pretty early because Henry is a very early riser. Lately, those 7 hours, if I get them are not consecutive because Henry's been up in the night due to his 2 yr molars. I'm not used to this crap anymore - it's no fun :-p

[clickerish]

How are some of you still alive? 4 hours a night? You get less sleep than Napoleon! 6 is the minimum for me...and I can only do that for so many days in a row before I crash.

Apparently, I should never have kids.

[quinny]

About 5. But N wakes up every 30-45 min so it is far from restorative. Now that K is home for the summer, I get an extra 1-2 uninterrupted hours. She takes him out of bed in the morning and let's me sleep. Bliss.