https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:29:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2827160 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:02:11 +0000 pachamama 2827160@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: I am in bed at 730 after I put my son down, asleep by 9 absolute latest and up 4am/4:30. 7.5 hours is my ideal, more than that and I'm groggy all day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2827123 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:16:20 +0000 JennyLayneAZ 2827123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: in response to "Oh my god, people who wake up before 6am, HOW do you do it? I feel so disoriented waking up when it's pitch black out (another reason I hate winter). " </p> <p>well, I have to leave by 6 to get to work on time. But my alarm goes off and I go straight to the shower, its the only way I can get going in the morning. I'd love to be able to sleep until 6 on the weekends, but LO is an early riser due to our work schedules, so, it doesn't happen unless she's sick or something. I've even tried keeping her up an hour and a half passed her bed time, and she still woke up at 5 :shocked: It helps that I live in AZ and its already light when I get out of the shower during this time of the year, but it is a little tough during winter... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2827119 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:05:32 +0000 MrsSCB 2827119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: Seriously, before 6 a.m., is a big nooooo thank you! F used to wake up before 6 regularly, and it was awful. Then we finally sleep trained at 21 months to fix bedtime issues, and lo and behold, he started sleeping later in the morning, too! I just always thought he was naturally an early riser, and I kick myself for not sleep training earlier. Because 5:30, or even occasionally earlier (!??!) is just not an acceptable time to get up. :meh: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2827091 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:04:42 +0000 themrsgoff 2827091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've had a hard time sleeping for as long as I can remember, it usually takes me a good hour or so to fall asleep at night and I almost never sleep through. My husband is a loud sleeper and I'm currently pregnant and getting up to pee 2-3 times a night, so I'm lucky if I can get 5-6 hours combined sleep. DH's alarm rings at 6:30 and we usually get to bed around 10:15 or so. My ideal would be 8 full hours but I've got no idea how to make that happen.</p> <p>I'm feeling super unrested right now but I figure once we have this baby and that newborn exhaustion hits, I'll be able to sleep pretty hard between night wakings and eventually feel like a new lady. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2827075 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 11:52:46 +0000 catgirl 2827075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've suffered from slight insomnia since middle school. So my in bed hours very rarely match my sleeping hours. I get in bed between 10-10:30, read for awhile, and then turn the light of between 10:30-11. </p> <p>I take a long time to fall asleep and wake up multiple times in the night, sometimes for hours at a time. My best sleep typically starts around 4. </p> <p>I get out of bed between 6:15-6:40. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2827056 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 11:15:04 +0000 pwnstar 2827056@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: Lol no--I am not a morning person in the slightest! It's purely out of necessity that I get up "in the middle of the night" (that made me chuckle). I have days when I am productive and days when getting everyone where they need to be in a timely manner is a total win and I am good with it. It just becomes habit after a while-- an evolutionary/ biological reflex. </p> <p>On the "how" . . . The secret is (for me anyway), when the alarm goes off, to sit the eff up and start moving immediately without any hesitation. There is no hitting the snooze or rolling over, especially when I am really tired (I feel like I am always a little tired, but some days I am t-i-r-e-d). I just sit up, get out of bed, put on my workout clothes, and get it done. There are days when I feel good and waking up is not a problem . . . for the vast majority of the days, however, I always feel some level of *awful* when I wake up. But getting my workout in early is a much safer bet than trying to do it at night after the kiddos are down (which I do when I need to, but the effort behind that is probably five times greater than the effort required to wake up early--a pay now or pay later kind of thing, and included in the later is always some kind of *interest/penalty*). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2827041 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:09:40 +0000 erinbaderin 2827041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: Buying a sunrise alarm clock was life changing in terms of waking up early. I cannot recommend it highly enough, it made mornings so much easier. I recommend, though, that you don’t use the “bird noise” alarm - it’s lovely in the winter but not great on summer weekends when the birds start chirping at 5 and your body is trained to bird noise = time to wake up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2827009 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 08:45:19 +0000 snowjewelz 2827009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If I'm super exhausted, I fall asleep w/ DD2 around 9. Normally, DH and I go to bed at 11. </p> <p>We wake up anytime between 6:45-7:30. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2826998 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 08:13:42 +0000 wrkbrk 2826998@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: in bed by 9:30, awake by 6:00, but often up 2-5 times overnight because two of our four dogs have medical issues and need to be let out and also bc I have terrible sleep problems 😫 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2826952 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 20:52:55 +0000 SweetiePie 2826952@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: mmmmmmwellllll he’s almost 16 weeks and so I feel like he shouldn’t be waking up at all. Haha. But per my other thread about his feeding, I’m afraid to drop it yet. He only drinks 3-4oz overnight so I probably could drop it and be fine. But I’m not my normal sleep-training self right now. I’m hoping at the next appt in 2 weeks she’ll say go for it and I can do it with zero guilt or worry. That’s when she gave official go ahead (and urging) for Z.<br /> At this point with Z I was at the very least only pushing feedings forward. I was never going back (like once he woke at 1am I would have never fed again at midnight). This time I’m feeding whenver he wakes and that could be any time between midnight and 3am. I hate the inconsistency. But fortunately, regardless of when he wakes up, he doesn’t wake up again until morning.<br /> It’s *mostly* manageable but still sucks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2826950 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 20:41:49 +0000 LCTBQE 2826950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: roger that :meh: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2826949 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 20:40:28 +0000 LCTBQE 2826949@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: ah, yeah we've established we're on the same page re sleep needs. I'm excited to have this baby but *really* dreading newborn night wakings again. I find it so, so hard to get back to sleep once I'm up. but you're already down to just one night waking over there?? that's great, right?</p> <p>@pwnstar: ahhh! you're one of those Benjamin Franklin no sleep massively productive superhuman types :heart: so you don't feel awful when you wake up in the middle of the night after 4-5 hours? have you always been a morning person? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2826948 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 20:37:27 +0000 bhbee 2826948@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: omg YES to everything past 10 being a waste. And yet ... still doing it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2826947 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 20:27:36 +0000 LCTBQE 2826947@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh my god, people who wake up before 6am, HOW do you do it? I feel so disoriented waking up when it's pitch black out (another reason I hate winter). </p> <p>@Mrs. Goose: @bhbee: yeah, this--I start to feel physical pain all over in the afternoons if I've gotten less than 6 hours and find it really takes a toll on my work productivity. </p> <p>@bhbee: @Mrs. Champagne: yeah, trying to figure out how much of the exhaustion is 3rd trimester normal fatigue and how much of it is on us/within our control. I feel like I've been pregnant so long I can't remember what it was like before when I just had one baby STTN (and I'm 3-4 weeks behind both of you!)</p> <p>@youboots: @crazydoglady: damn, good for yall for making it happen :grin: </p> <p>@ajsmommy: I want to go to bed early, I just can't seem to settle down--but I feel like everything we do past 10pm (besides sex, that is) is just junk time anyway. I'm emotionally ready to leave 11pm behind with the rest of youth :) </p> <p>@anagram: ugh, I'm so sorry this is the regular situation for you :heart: I recalled you talking about it on other threads on insomnia (I have it mildly/stress-related in normal life in moderately during pregnancy--a lot of what you describe of being up for hours and only being able to get back to sleep once the alarm's going off) but I didn't realize yours was *that* bad. I don't know how you deal with it considering your job requires you to be "on" all the time, it sounds really tough. what is sleep restriction? also pet peeve: when people tell me that exercise will help :meh: it doesn't. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2826846 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:49:50 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2826846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Usually 1030ish until 7. But I’m 33 weeks pregnant and wake to pee a couple times and sometimes cannot fall back asleep. I enjoy 8 hours! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours/page/2#post-2826845 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:46:13 +0000 Pumuckl 2826845@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Okay so now I feel like a weirdo:<br /> I go to bed around 11:30pm-12:15am and the alarm goes off at 6:30/6:45am. I’ll sometimes fall asleep on the couch but usually I am fine until midnight. I seem to not need more than 6 hours of sleep. When the twins still nursed around midnight it was more like 5-5.5 hours. That worked out too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826838 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:34:39 +0000 hellobeeboston 2826838@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh man, i have felt like I needed so much sleep lately, I feel like I slept through our long winter in new england!</p> <p>I typically go to sleep between 8:30 and 10, ha, so early!<br /> and I sleep until 6:30 am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826837 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:32:19 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2826837@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: glad it's not just me. And then at 630 I'm not wanting to move bc the second I so much as stretch in bed the kids are all up needing something immediately! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826836 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:30:42 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2826836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Usually about 1030/11 to 630. But I wake up at least once during that. Often several times or once for a couple hours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826833 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:27:43 +0000 NorthStar 2826833@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ajsmommy: lol - i feel the same way. I cannot stay up that late and still wake in time for work!</p> <p>Lately, I've been lights out at 8:30 and up around 5 or so. But, DS is still waking at least once per night and I have very high sleep needs. I would love to stay up later, but realistically, need my sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826828 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:23:42 +0000 Mrs D 2826828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>On the norm, I got to bed around 10, and wake up around 5 :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826821 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:09:34 +0000 nana87 2826821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>About 10-6:30 on average, but I'm usually up for about an hour in the middle of the night nursing lo2. She doesn't always wake, but when she does she usually takes awhile to fall back asleep. Like, last night I slept from about 10:30-12:30, briefly pat lo2's butt to get her back to sleep when she was fussing with her eyes closed, then up again from 2:45-3:20 nursing, then up at about 7. My girls share a room so I try to get to lo2 pretty quickly when she's fussy so lo1 doesn't wake. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826819 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:05:26 +0000 Mama Bird 2826819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>11-6:30 if I get the absolute basics done (DD doesn't let me go pack lunch till 10). If I want to do anything besides lunch and cleanup, 12-6:30. I used to need 10 hours of sleep, and I don't think my sleep needs have changed that much, but unless we move much closer to work, nothing's changing any time soon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826818 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:02:41 +0000 Silva 2826818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I sleep from about 10-6:30 (or whenever the kids wake up). I almost always turn my light off by 10:00, occasionally I will read until 10:30 but I usually regret it.</p> <p>I have pretty high sleep needs. My kids go to bed at 7:00, so I'm able to get stuff done and relax a little before bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826816 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:00:52 +0000 pwnstar 2826816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: On average I sleep from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. Sometimes I fall asleep on the couch earlier than 11, and sometimes even though I'm exhausted, by the time I get myself ready for bed, I can't fall asleep until 12/12:30 (or later), although even when that happens I rarely get up later than 4:15ish during the week. On the weekends, I sleep in until 6 a.m. which is AMAZING. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826812 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:55:33 +0000 MrsSCB 2826812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have sleep issues, so I'm usually in bed between 10 and 6:30, but I read for awhile before going to sleep and wake up several times in the night. So I don't even know how many hours I'm actually asleep, ha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826798 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:30:39 +0000 Adira 2826798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Jealous of all your "late" risers! :P</p> <p>I try to be in bed by 9:30 and my alarm goes off at 4:30 or 4:45 depending on the day. I'm at work by 6:00. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826793 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:22:27 +0000 petitenoisette 2826793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Right now I'm on maternity leave so I go upstairs about 9:30 and am hopefully asleep by 10. My 3 month old is generally a champ nighttime sleeper otherwise I would go to bed earlier. Generally I am nursing off and on from whenever baby wakes up (anywhere between 3 and 6 am usually) but don't really wake up until my 3 year old does which seems to fluctuate a lot but the last couple weeks 7-7:30. On the weekends I often sleep in with the baby until 8. </p> <p>When I'm working I try to start getting ready for bed around 8:30 and asleep by 9 or so but usually it's more like 9:30. Up at 5:30. </p> <p>@Ajsmommy: With you on the early bedtime! The thought of regularly going to bed at 11 is crazy to me but I understand that people just have different times they naturally want to fall asleep (and need to wake up).</p> <p>@Anagram: I'm sorry sleeping is such a struggle, that sounds terrible. :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826770 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:03:50 +0000 raspberries 2826770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>11:30-7:30 - I try to be in bed by 11 with the lights off to give myself enough time to fall asleep by 11:30. I'm on team 8 hours of sleep a night if at all possible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-are-your-sleep-hours#post-2826764 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:59:23 +0000 LadyDi 2826764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lately it's been 11 or 11:30 to around 6 or 7. It's hard for me to wake up sometimes but once I am up, I'm fine and I can function well on 6 hours of sleep without feeling tired. I have pretty low sleep needs and I sleep solidly at night. I would like to get to bed earlier but the baby hasn't been going down until 9:30 or 10 and I need some time to unwind and read before bed. </p>