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Okay so now I feel like a weirdo:
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.

@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.
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.
It’s *mostly* manageable but still sucks.

If I'm super exhausted, I fall asleep w/ DD2 around 9. Normally, DH and I go to bed at 11.

We wake up anytime between 6:45-7:30.

@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.

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*).

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.

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.

@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). "

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 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...