https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:09:58 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851813 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 17:30:18 +0000 immabeetoo 1851813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine goes in phases of when he wakes but if it's an early phase I give him books in his crib and get pulled together while he reads. I never set an alarm if I can help it! Normally he sits next to me and reads while I wake up and read email on my pone, then I read to him and we eat breakfast and get ready together. Which is why we are hard pressed to get out the door before 9:30. Yikes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851715 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 15:31:09 +0000 erinpye 1851715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>HECK NO! Mine sometimes wake before 6 AM!, and never ever later than 7...and it is extremely rare they would sleep that late. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851700 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 15:05:53 +0000 Sapphiresun 1851700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine wakes up betwen 4:30 and 5 am, sometimes even earlier. I get up at 4, so I'm up and showered before she wakes up. My husband leaves for work at 5, so if I don't do it before she wakes up I don't have time to get me and LO ready before we have to leave for work/daycare at 7 since she can't really be left completely unattended. Tough because she also still wakes up a couple times a night, which I do too, since DH just doesn't have a job where being the least bit tired is even an option for safety reasons. It suuuuuuuuuuucks and I don't recommend it if you don't have to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851659 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 13:15:45 +0000 LittleFox 1851659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is nearly 2, and has always gotten up for the day really early. It's been between 4:30-5:00 for almost a year. I sleep as late as I can! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851169 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:57:09 +0000 Dandelion 1851169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>D gets woken up at 6:40 am for school. My alarm is set for 6:10 so that I have time to drink a cup of coffee before I drive him in. Sometimes M is up before that, sometimes I have to wake him for him to ride along. If I have to wake him, it's at 6:30 to be changed and eat. But, I'm up no later than 6:10 no matter what. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851144 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:26:32 +0000 Mrs. Sketchbook 1851144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO was not an early rider and I sill waited for him. The activity in the house always seemed to wake him up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851138 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:18:07 +0000 Anagram 1851138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: gotcha. Both of us WOH and our LO is an early riser (6-6:30 am). I get up at 5:30-5:45 each day and Dh gets up at 6am each day. I try to shower and dress before she's awake, but DH gets her from her crib and changes her and gives her the morning milk. Then by 6:20 we are rushiing to get her dressed and get her hair done and daycare breakfast, lunch, snacks, and straw cups packed so she and I can leave by 6:40.</p> <p>Over the summer when I was home, DH would still wake me when she woke up--he would go change her diaper and give her milk which gave me about 10 minutes to go to the bathroom and make coffee. Then she was back to me to entertain while he got ready for work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851109 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:50:23 +0000 78h2o 1851109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is not a super early riser, so I do tend to get up before her and it's really nice to be able to shower and have a cup of coffee before she gets up.</p> <p>Maybe I shouldn't be admitting this, but sometimes when she gets up before me (or if I wake up with a migraine or something), she gets a little screen time. I leave her in her crib and play a show for her on the ipad, which I leave propped up on her dresser so she can see it from her crib. Then I either go back to sleep for 30 min or go shower and have a cup of coffee. It only happens about 1x a week, so I don't think it's a big deal. It makes such a big difference. It is like being able to hit the snooze button, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851095 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:38:50 +0000 Lindsay05 1851095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way! I like to stay up an hour or two after LOs go to bed and sleep in until the younger one wakes up which is usually by 6 or 630. I love mornings but not that much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851066 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:08:34 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1851066@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: I'm with you.</p> <p>My DD1 gets up at 7:30.....no way I'm waking up before her! I WAH, as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851061 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:04:50 +0000 Bubbles 1851061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: definitely need to get on to the baby proofing, it's amazing how you suddenly see so many dangerous things once LO is on the move! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851048 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:57:18 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1851048@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bubbles: haha yeah, such a fun stage :) We childproofed his room 100% at that age and put a gate at his door so he could play in there if I needed to do things while he was awake :) It worked great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851040 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:53:22 +0000 Bubbles 1851040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: yup not looking forward to losing the morning nap! Independent play sounds good though, my DS is at that almost crawling stage where you can't take your eyes off him for a second or he's done the worm across the kitchen and has his face in the cats bowl! :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851036 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:50:59 +0000 avivoca 1851036@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I need my me-time in the morning, so I had been getting up at 6:30 and laying in bed checking my email/IG. This week, girlfriend has decided that 6:30 is the time she needs to get up and I haven't been able to drag myself out of bed earlier than that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851019 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:44:37 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1851019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bubbles: That's where we are at...we are in the process of dropping the morning nap and I am like "wait, when will I eat breakfast and check facebook and drink lots of coffee and think straight before noon!" </p> <p>When our crazy house construction is done we are going back to "independent play in your room" time I think :) just for a little while anyway! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851009 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:40:07 +0000 Bubbles 1851009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. DS is a 5.30 - 6 sorta guy, and DH gets up with him most of the time (like you this started when I used to do all night wakings and has continued on despite the fact that night wakings are now quite rare). Usually on Sundays I get up with him to give DH a lie in, and sometimes DH has to be out of the house before 7 so we are all up then as well. I never ever get up before him and I don't think I ever would! I know what you mean about launching straight into the day - but DS is usually happy to play in the living room first thing while I sit by him mainlining coffee! I shower and get dressed when he goes down for a nap at 9am - not sure what I'll do when he's older and naps less! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1851003 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:37:00 +0000 Mrs. Rabbit 1851003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I get up when my daughter gets up...I need all the sleep I can get. I tried getting up earlier, but I swear she must've known I was awake, because I'd only get a few minutes before she'd wake up.</p> <p>Actually, what I do now is I let her stay in her crib when she gets up. I have the video monitor (and once it's up I turn the volume down and just keep an eye on her), so I know she's fine, but I get myself a cup of coffee, check my email and watch a little GMA. Basically I have 30 minutes to myself even though she's awake. Then I go and get her up. I started doing this because I seriously needed some me time in the morning. It works out pretty well! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850957 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:18:25 +0000 birdofafeather 1850957@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i don't have an early riser and i WAH and i still don't get up before her 95% of the time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850952 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:17:04 +0000 blackbird 1850952@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I go to bed earlier and get up earlier. I"m up by 5, easy. I go to bed at 9. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850948 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:15:47 +0000 Corduroy 1850948@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We set the alarm at 6. Some days I get a few moments to myself. Most days I don't. It took us 18 months to get LO to sleep in until 6am. I am not waking up any earlier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850940 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:12:13 +0000 MapleMoose 1850940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO gets up between 4:30am-5am so I wake when sheddoes. That's early enough as it is. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850930 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:06:02 +0000 aegie 1850930@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO wakes up anywhere between 645-715 everyday. she goes to daycare so I need to have her lunch packed, dressed, hair up and ready to go by 8 (which is when I need to be out of the house). I have to wake up earlier than her to cook and pack her food for lunch and get ready because no matter what - she will ONLY let mommy take her out of the crib and change her diaper in the morning. When I have early morning conferences and need to leave before 7, my husband tells me it's basically WW3 at home because I'm not there. I can't wait until the mommy addiction becomes more equally distributed to the hubs! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850914 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:53:59 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1850914@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: Right now he gets up whatever time LO wakes up, and I sleep another 30 minutes or so until he needs to get ready for work. I could probably get up with them and use that 30 minutes. Maybe that would be enough time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850912 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:52:52 +0000 looch 1850912@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like to get up and put my coffee on, which I try to do the night before but usually forget to do. But it's my nature to wake up early, I do every day, even on weekends! My son has been waking up between 5:30 and 5:45 since he was a year old, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850910 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:51:21 +0000 Anagram 1850910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: Does your husband go to bed earlier than you? Is there a reason he has to wake at 5?</p> <p>I'd try maybe trading off days with DH, he gets up early one day and you get up early the next. Then you have a little free time to yourself to start the day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850907 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:49:37 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 1850907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our whole family wakes up at the same time - 6:15ish (we co-bed so there's no getting around it!) My husband and I tag team morning chores and do a lot the night before. Before our dog died he would keep our son occupied. Now F is 2 and better at playing on his own in the morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850892 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:42:46 +0000 Jess1483 1850892@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My little one generally wakes up at 6. I work part-time, but even when I work, I don't leave the house until 8:30. I stay in bed until he wakes up, partly because I want all the sleep I can get, and partly because ANY noise in the morning wakes him up (note to self: pay more attention to floor plans for the next house...) But LO is also able to play by himself for about 20 minutes while I sit and have coffee or get dressed. I usually shower at night, so my mornings don't take that much time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850890 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:41:41 +0000 jetsa 1850890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS gets up between 5:30-6 and yea it sucks. I can't force myself out of bed any earlier. On the weekends we bring him to bed with us to nurse but that only lasts 30 mins or so. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/moms-of-early-risers-do-you-get-up-earlier#post-1850888 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:38:46 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1850888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is there any other solution to having some time to start your day, other than getting up even earlier than the kiddos? </p> <p>LO is up between 5:30 and 6 every day. So far DH has always gotten up with him to start the day, but I feel like I should help out some mornings since he is no longer waking up during the night. </p> <p>I usually sleep until the last possible second, but this leaves me feeling rushed and overwhelmed all morning, especially since I SAH and don't have a morning commute to mentally prepare for my day...the day just kind of happens. </p> <p>Should I just bite the bullet and start getting up at 5 (YIKES)? Anybody have another solution? </p>