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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.

@Mrs. Lion: Does your husband go to bed earlier than you? Is there a reason he has to wake at 5?

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.

LO gets up between 4:30am-5am so I wake when sheddoes. That's early enough as it is.

I go to bed earlier and get up earlier. I"m up by 5, easy. I go to bed at 9.

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.

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!

@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!

@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!

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.

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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!