Don’t let the mommy stay up late!
First of all, I’m not even tired.
Okay, that’s a lie. I’m really tired. Exhausted, even. Not quite as exhausted as some of my friends, but pretty wiped out nonetheless.
I probably get a good six or seven hours each night, but it’s broken up. CJ comes in somewhere between midnight and four (it’s her age, I’m convinced), Oliver joins us around five (because I’m damn sure not waking up for the day right then), and Kyle snores. I don’t care what Dr. Sears says; the family bed sucks.
Even Tacy, whom I often have to wake up on school mornings, doesn’t always sleep well. She sleepwalks (which freaks Kyle out) and still comes into our room occasionally.
Thanks to my own childhood sleep issues, I’m a softie where it comes to helping my kids sleep. I remember how hard it was to fall asleep and stay asleep. One rule my parents set for me has worked quite well with Tacy: You don’t have to go to sleep, but you do have to be quiet and stay in your room.
My problem? Getting myself to bed. By the time both kids are in bed, it’s after 8:30. I come downstairs, start working, and the next thing I know, it’s 10:30.
And I know 10:30 isn’t even that late. Some of my friends are routinely up past midnight, and then up and down throughout the night with their own kids. We’re all struggling with how to accomplish everything we need to – and still get a decent stretch of sleep.
So I’ll be paying close attention during the No More Bedtime Blues webcast tomorrow, sponsored by PBS Sprout Kids. If you haven’t already heard about it, and you’ve got sleep issues at your house, check it out. It’s not too late to register.
Just pick up a venti capuccino beforehand. You know, so you can stay awake long enough to ask a question.
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I may not get enough sleep, but I’m definitely a morning person. You?
November 11th, 2008 at 7:03 am
I am so not a morning person. The trouble is that kids are. For the most part, I have not had sleep problems with either child. Unless you count the propensity of my youngest to wake at 5AM those times I’ve gotten to bed after 12 the night before.
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November 11th, 2008 at 7:48 am
you had better believe i’m signed up for that. my kids go down fine. and even STAY down fine. but they seem to think 4:45AM is an acceptable time to get up in the morning. heh.
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November 11th, 2008 at 10:31 am
I used to sleepwalk when I was younger (around 6 and 7 years) and it freaks me out just thinking about it. I once sleepwalked to the neighbor’s house to ask for tape to finish my puppet for Brownies.
My parents wised up and installed a lock on the door too high for me to reach. My daughter does it too (she’s 4) but not as severely as I did. She mostly just comes into our room and stands very still right next to my side of the bed until I sense that she’s there and then, after my heart starts beating again, I just walk her back to bed. Kyle is right…it is freaky.
November 11th, 2008 at 10:40 am
The other night I was woken by the 3-year-old (2:30 a.m.; dozed in chair in his room for 1 hr); the dog (5:30 a.m.; made husband let her out); and my mom’s cell phone calling me without her knowledge (6:30 a.m., x 3). GEEZ.
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November 11th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Mornings…no, don’t like them much. The only good things about them is that there’s always coffee involved at my house.
Broken sleep, yah, I get that too. Not a great thing to have broken!
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November 11th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
We’ve definitely got sleep issues around her. My sweet daughter still gets up once or twice a night, with the first time being between 10:30 and 12, so it almost seems silly for me to go to sleep until after that one. Unfortunately, she’s up for the day at 5:30. Only a couple of times since she was born have I slept more than four hours in a row and only a few more have I gotten more than 7 hours total. I’m pooped.
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November 11th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I am not a morning person, although I get up early anyway. I’ve never been a good sleeper. I’m a light sleeper, the big girl sleepwalks, the little girl still gets night terrors, the boy gets hungry early and my husband breaths.
I’m more patient with it than most people would be, because I so remember being a bad sleeper as a kid. I have decided sleep is what I’ll do when I am old. Now, I mainline coffee.
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November 11th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Not a morning person. No. Definitely not.
And I’m always up waaaay too late at night. Always.
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November 12th, 2008 at 8:29 am
A lurker is finally commenting..
I *so* feel you on this one. I have 2.5-year old twins. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in over 3 years. I was up at *FOUR* A.M. with a recently potty-trained twin boy that is regressing big-time. I try to be in bed by 10 but with work and the internets and all sometimes that gets pushed a good hour or so. Looking forward to the webcast tomorrow. Please, please, please let them cover sleep regression issues. Or I might just keel over from exhaustion.
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November 12th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I think I’m like a 6pm person. That’s when I’m like, “I’m going to make dinner! I’m going to give the kids a bath! I’m going to clean up the kitchen and pick out their clothes for tomorrow and write 16 new blog posts!”
And then by 7 that’s all shot to hell.
Probably because I’m not getting enough sleep.
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Wow, I missed the dizzy dreams post the first time (probably because I usually skip puking posts). That must have SUCKED!
I am light sleeper. I can’t sleep with a breeze. Or any music. Or TV. Or sound of any other kind. Or while being touched. Or if my pillows are wrong…it is just annoying as hell.
November 12th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
The worst, worst, WORST thing that can happen in my house on any given night would be when I fall asleep while cuddling someone else in their bed. I will then wake up around midnight and be up for 3 or 4 hours. Lots of fun…
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November 13th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
My husband claims that he can’t sleep with all the commotion from six children – but every time I get woken up by the little darlings he is snoring away which provokes me to swear in Italian (my mother tongue) and poke him really hard and duck down – he needs to feel the pain….
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