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I really need 7 to function well and third tri pregnant I need 8 to feel good (of course 8 straight is impossible and pretty soon I expect crazy insomnia to kick in around 4am).

My problem is I say to myself the kids will sleep later than they actually will, even when we have nowhere to be (at least my son who has an internal alarm even in a pitch dark room) so I stay up too late. For school days I really should get up between 5:30-6am and I find it soooo hard to go to bed early enough for that. So ideally it’s 10-6, ok 11-6, too often 12-6 or worse and I’m a wreck in the afternoon.

10:30 to 7, with the baby up 2 times at night. I’ll be back at work in a couple weeks and ideally, it will be 10 to 6, with no wakeups, but that’s not going to happen.

Right now, 9-6 or 10-7, but LO is 4 months so she wakes to feed 2-3 times a night.

When I work, I try for 9:30-6:00, give or take a half hour. I also hope I can get baby down to 1 wakings. I think it will be hard to keep to that for the first few months of the school year. I also try to take a nap on Saturday or Sunday for an hour.

Ideally I am fine with 8 solid hours. DH needs 9 if not more he is constantly tired and falling asleep if he sits/lays down during the kids' nap time.

I sleep a lot less than I should. I need 6 1/2-7 hours uninterrupted if possible. In reality I got to bed as early as 10, as late as 12:30. I wake up multiple times a night usually for 30-90 minutes at a time. I wake up the first time at 7, but snooze the alarm until 7:30. I used to only need one alarm and was out of bed that minute, since I had my son I can't wake up on time to save my life.

Typically 11-6, but I'd love more sleep. Most nights someone or something wakes me up: kid, hubby snoring, cat, songbirds at 4am...

Usually 10:30 or 11-6. DS has finally started sleeping a little later. He didn't sleep past 5:45 for almost a year.

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DH is up at 5 on work days so I'm semi up lol

I have pretttty severe lifelong insomnia issues. I also have two autoimmune diseases that make me really tired. So how these things manifest in my life is that I'm tired all day--like listless, no energy, find it difficult to get things done, haven't worked out in ages because I feel like I physically can't--BUT I'm not sleepy/tired. When it's night time, I can't sleep, I lay awake for hours. If I get a chance to nap on weekends, half the time I can't.

I (unfortunately) regularly have nights where I don't sleep at all. Like not even one minute. Or I sleep from like 4am-5:30 am when my alarm goes off. But I still have to go to work, work all day, be a mom at night, and even with all of that, when it's time for me to sleep, I just can't.

Lately, I've been trying sleep restriction. And meds. I get so-so results. I'm still tired all day. But I still can't sleep normally. And insomnia runs in my family.

Eta: This week, I slept 0 hours on Saturday night and napped 2 hours the next day. Sunday, I slept 12-5:30. Monday, I slept 10:30-5:30 with meds (but they leave me feeling "hungover" the next day). Last night, I slept 11:30-5:30. So my average is...about 5 hours a night.

I feel like on paper it should be enough- usually I go to bed by 11 and get up around 7. But it takes me forever to fall asleep at night, even with melatonin, and I often wake up overnight and can’t fall back asleep for a long time. Usually my deepest sleep is between 5-7 am- luckily for me, DH wakes up earlier and gets the kids if they wake up before that. I’m constantly tired, but I can’t fall asleep even when I go to bed earlier.

My kids have been sick so we had extra nighttime wake ups but normally they do sleep through.

I used to think more sleep was better, but I've found my sweet spot and it's basically 9 pm to 5:30 am. I keep these hours all week.

@Anagram: my mom suffers from insomnia and it sounds just awful.. I am so sorry you have it!! I think lack of sleep is the worst torture

8:00pm to 4:30am - we go to bed at 8 but I fall asleep anywhere from 8:15-9:30 honestly. LO goes to bed around 6:30 and usually wakes on her own between 5-5:30

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.

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.

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.

@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).

@Anagram: I'm sorry sleeping is such a struggle, that sounds terrible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

@Ajsmommy: lol - i feel the same way. I cannot stay up that late and still wake in time for work!

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.

@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!