What is your acceptable wakeup time?

We just get up whenever Alex does. Sometimes it's anytime from 5.30 on. You could always get her to come snuggle in the big bed with Mum and Dad until you are all ready to get up.

I like them to stagger their waking .. so Elias I prefer to wake early (5.30-6.00) so that he is fed and back in bed by the time Issy wakes (7.00-8.00), although he has been sleeping longer and then it kind of becomes a juggling act.

When they both get to toddler age, I think 6 is reasonable on a weekday and 7 would be preferable on a weekend.

Hollie's just changed her routine, I don't get her up until 7 now, but if she wakes any earlier she just chats away in her cot When she was still having two sleeps it was 6, but I did the same thing if she woke up earlier than that.

Sam wakes anywhere between 6AM and 8AM.   I am really really really not a morning person, but I do enjoy having child free evenings so he is in bed at 7:30PM each night, I have tried earlier but he just mucks around. I find if he goes to bed at the same time he sleeps longer but if by some miracle he's had a sleep during the day, he is up till 9-10PM and then he wakes up at 5-6AM!   Strange child.

For some reason, the magical time in my head is 7:30AM for him to wake up and I am ok with that, but any earlier and I am grumpy for a while.

Not much fun when my DPs alarm goes off and EVERYBODY gets woken up except for him!   Which means Sam and I are up and he's still snoring away.

My boy gets out of bed and up for the day at 700. If he wakes earlier than that then he is left in his cot till seven. Before seven in out household its night time.
I don't mind if he wakes early, he just isn't get up early.

we will not get DS out of bed before 7. if he wont stop crying we go and open his curtains and he amuses himself looking outside. he rarely wakes up before 5.30 but after that we open his curtains and ignore him and he rarely fusses about it. we have done it since he was a couple of months old so he just knows that is the deal now. my neice woke up at 530 every monring during the summer until she got black out curtains put in her room. she just thoght it was time to be awake cos it was light outside

7am is the rule in our house too - for the big kids at least, babies are a little less flexible . If Maya gets up before 7 she turns the TV on quietly in the lounge, and the gremlins almost never wake till I get up coz we co-sleep so they stay put until I disturb them when I'm getting up.

Lil miss usually sleeps till just after 7am, altho this week we've had a few early starts. I usually lie in bed and listen to her chattering on the monitor until it becomes insistent and turns to an "ok mum, I'm over this, come and get me" kind of grizzle.

No getting up till 8.30 in our house! Well DH goes to work at 6 and feeds DD at 5 but then she goes back to sleep until 8.30.

6am is the earliest we'll start the day - for a while Nat was waking at 5.30 most mornings, so we left her in her cot till 6am minimum. She's now going till 6.30/7 which is great. One of the sleep books I have says that 6am is a very common wakeup time for babies/toddlers, and often there's nothing that can be done about it. Hopefully it's a phase, but I would say you might have to accept it.

I would love to say 8am. Jackson usually wakes between 5.30-6am and will chat for about 20mins before turning into full tantrum mode.