https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:43:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends/page/2#post-1363290 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:57:17 +0000 looch 1363290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We both get up, we always have, even when I was at home and my husband was working. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends/page/2#post-1363287 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:56:08 +0000 Alivoo01 1363287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH works 7 days a week so I get baby duty 24/7. If we're on vaca, DH will help take care of diaper changes, but since he's so used me caring for DS, he'll wake me up should DS get fussy past like a minute! lol Otherwise, he'll try to entertain as long as he can so I can get a few extra minutes of sleep. DS is 6 months old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends/page/2#post-1362924 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:56:30 +0000 sarac 1362924@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We alternate getting up on the weekends and sleeping in. My husband's ideal sleeping schedule is from about 4 am to noon, so adjusting to having a kid was really hard for him. He really values getting to sleep in one weekend day. Now that we're going to church, we just have one day, so I guess we'll alternate weekends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends/page/2#post-1362861 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:11:38 +0000 hilsy85 1362861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NovBaby1112: OMG I KNOW. IT drives me crazy when DH naps--I'm like, you're a grown man! Grown men don't nap! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends/page/2#post-1362842 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:05:45 +0000 NovBaby1112 1362842@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: that is the worst! I hate when DH wakes up at 9, and then is tired and needs a long nap in the afternoon. I really, really hope our second child inherits his sleeping gene, lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends/page/2#post-1362841 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:05:08 +0000 twoofeverything 1362841@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We both get up. I think each of us feels guilty if we sleep in...and I really can't sleep, anyway, when I know the kids are awake.</p> <p>If one of us is really tired or sick, we definitely give each other the morning off :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends/page/2#post-1362829 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:01:38 +0000 hilsy85 1362829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NovBaby1112: same here! It annoys me so badly when DH sleeps later than I want him to, lol--but I'd rather have him sleep than be awake and be cranky and complain about being tired! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362822 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:59:39 +0000 NovBaby1112 1362822@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I usually get up both weekend days with LO. I am an early bird and he could sleep until noon, but I don't let him! I do get annoyed some days, but I would rather have him get up on his own at 9 or 10 than be grumpy and groggy the whole dang day....ughh </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362770 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:43:18 +0000 cascademom 1362770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: LO STTN. If there's a disturbance, usually from neighbors, he handles it. It's rare these days. We had one about two weeks ago. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362756 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:37:52 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1362756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH is a morning person and I'm not at all. So he gets up with LO every single day! I get up earlier during the week for work and he lets me sleep on weekends. I can't complain :). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362742 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:29:23 +0000 MrsStar 1362742@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>On weekends we tend to take turns. My day to "sleep in" is usually Sunday and I get up every other day when lo wakes - usually 7am. But I'm the first to hear lo and I can never fall back asleep once I hear she's awake so I tend to lay in bed and play on my phone while dh gives lo breakfast and changes her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362714 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:20:36 +0000 Foodnerd81 1362714@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Most of the time she isn't a super early riser, so Dh gets her and changes her diaper, then brings her to bed and we all snuggle and I nurse her, then we get up for the day. Her usual wake up is between 7:30-8:30, so it's doable. If she gets up earlier usually Dh will try and entertain her until she's really hungry, or I nurse her to sleep in bed rarely. So... It depends. If she wakes up before 6:30 I treat it like a motn wakeup and try to nurse her back to sleep in her blacked out room, which works more often than not! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362697 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:11:27 +0000 Sparkler 1362697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always sleep in until 7:30am on the weekends. It first started when #1 didn't sleep through the night, then continued when I was pregnant and tired and now that #2 still doesn't sleep through the night, my husband still gets up with the kids. It's so much a part of our routine (or mine :wink: ) that I don't see it changing anytime soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362682 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:05:07 +0000 Beehive 1362682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Every day DH gets him out of the crib and changes him (around 7am), then I nurse and put him back in the crib with a bunch of toys where he plays until 8 while we doze. On weekends DH and I trade off giving him breakfast at 8, playing with him until 9 and putting him down for his nap, while the other person sleeps some more. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362615 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:40:14 +0000 luckypenny 1362615@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We both get up with her and we all get ready together </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362612 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:38:36 +0000 Periwinkle 1362612@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We tend to alternate the "early shift" on the weekends<br /> . Usually, I take Saturday mornings and my husband gets up with LO early on Sundays. Of course, that's the morning I usually can't sleep past 7:30 anyways, but it's still nice :). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362601 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:32:36 +0000 mrsbookworm 1362601@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We each take a morning since LO gets up around 5am. I'm still nursing so when he's ready to nap around 7am I have to get up anyway. But 7 is much nicer than 5!</p> <p>I SAH so I get up with him during the week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362595 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:29:24 +0000 birdofafeather 1362595@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjyw: we both get up too as R wakes up anywhere from 730-830. </p> <p>I WAH and DH has 12 hour shifts when he works so he gets up with us if he's home, otherwise he was out the door at 6 this morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1362574 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:07:47 +0000 hilsy85 1362574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Tidybee: ahhh that is nice...I bring LO into my bed to nurse and sometimes he'll nurse for like 40 minutes while I doze! I still hold the fact that I got out of bed at 530 to go get him over DH's head though :) </p> <p>@mrsjyw: oh man, if we had an 8/830 wakeup I think we could both get up too!!</p> <p>@Andrea: ehhh I think when there are two kiddos I'd rather divide and conquer than try to have one of us handle 2 on our own, at least for the first while :) </p> <p>@MamaChin: well good for you then--you deserve that extra hour! I do all mornings with LO, but DH is home at night to help out. </p> <p>@Mae: @scg00387: yeah I am more of a morning person (not a 5am morning person, but even getting up then is easier for me)--I wish DH were less of a night owl sometimes!</p> <p>@travelgirl1: oh man that would not fly with me! I would have quite literally kicked him out of bed...I can't stand when DH complains about being tired when I've gotten up with LO at the asscrack of dawn for the previous 5 days. </p> <p>@cascademom: does your LO wake at night? DOes your DH still help with later night wakings?</p> <p>@LuLu Mom: ha L will do that too--knock on the door and say mama! or dada! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1361299 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:36:42 +0000 LuLu Mom 1361299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO has been getting up around 7:30-7:45 on weekends, but we always alternate in the mornings, so if someone wants to sleep until 9 or so they can! E will bang on the bedroom door if it's any later than that ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1361210 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:18:04 +0000 cascademom 1361210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do the morning routine 7 days a week. Every morning, I wake up before LO, get ready, and then get LO up and fed. This weekend, I took naps while LO napped or when DH was up with LO. I can count on one hand how many times I've slept in since LO was born.</p> <p>DH stays up late most days. He did this when LO was an infant. I would sleep the early part of the night, then take the early morning hours. When we were getting used to a work routine, DH would get up when both of us were ready to get LO to daycare. I ended taking over the morning routine because it took way too long to rouse him and get ready. </p> <p>I'm hoping with another LO, DH will wake up and do more morning routine action. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1361184 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:13:02 +0000 travelgirl1 1361184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I get up. Every time. It doesn't bother me apart from last weekend when I was sick and I asked DH to get up and he wouldn't because he was tired. Bad form, DH! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1361174 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:09:15 +0000 sslm 1361174@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So far we both get up since she's ebf and I have trouble falling back asleep after waking up to nurse her. Luckily even though she's a bad sleeper, she's a late riser, so it is usually around 7:30/8 so not too bad :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1361011 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:10:46 +0000 immabeetoo 1361011@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We alternate sleeping in unless we have somewhere to go. He will let me sleep in both days if I ask nicely; he is more of a morning person. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1361008 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:09:12 +0000 Mae 1361008@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'll be interested to see how this goes! Our LO isn't due until May, but we do have animals who generally get us up around 7 or 730 every day. My husband is much more of a morning person than I am so he generally gets up and takes care of all of them on weekdays. On weekends he either gets up with them or we both do, although occasionally if I hear them first and he seems to be sleeping heavily I'll get up with them and let him sleep in. </p> <p>We'll see how that changes once we're more tired from getting up mid-nights and/or if our kid typically rises before 7am. We've basically agreed to take turns on nights/mornings so that at least one of us is well rested most of the time… which is fine. But I sort of suspect if we have a decent sleeper my husband will get up with her more since he is just pretty happy to be up around 7 regardless (weirdo). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1361002 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:04:20 +0000 DillonLion 1361002@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Always me, no matter what day it is. DH sleeps in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1361001 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:04:05 +0000 brownie 1361001@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Usually it's me but if I need the sleep we give him the phone to watch and turn over. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1361000 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:03:05 +0000 Weagle 1361000@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We both loved sleeping in pre-LO, but now we usually both get up with her. It helps that she's up around 7:30-8, so it's not really early. If one of us is sick or especially tired we will sleep in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1360950 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:45:29 +0000 MamaChin 1360950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Since I pretty much solo parent 5 days a week (DH leaves before he wakes up and returns after bedtime), he gets him on weekends so I can sleep in for an hour. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-and-your-so-handle-mornings-on-the-weekends#post-1360927 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:38:40 +0000 littlebug 1360927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Champagne: I had the same fear before D was born. But Hubs actually started offering to get up with him at his first waking on the weekends so that I could sleep in. This mostly only lasted through my maternity leave. Once I was back at work, all bets were off. Occasionally he'll get up with him, but it's usually me. Though D sleeps later now then back then (as a wee thing he was up at 5:30-6, and now he sleeps till 8-9 when we let him go), so even getting up fist with him now isn't so bad - it's at least 2 hours later than I get up during the week, so I'll take it! </p>