What is your acceptable wakeup time?
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Topic: What is your acceptable wakeup time?
Posted By: CuriousG
Subject: What is your acceptable wakeup time?
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 9:27am
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Just curious, what time do your kids wake up? Charlotte wakes up at 6am each morning, no matter what time she goes to bed (whether it be 6pm or 9pm).
We think its too early but are we being unrealistic? Its causing huge arguments in our house but I am thinking I just need to accept it. Just wondering what time your kids (of similar age) wake up each morning and what time you find acceptable? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Henna79
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 9:29am
| 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. |
Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 9:35am
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Keira has always been quite good at sleeping and we usually dont hear from her until after 7. At the moment it is Maddi who is waking at 6:30 (this morning 6) no matter what time we put her to bed which ends up waking Keira too.
It is so hard when its a habit to get them to sleep any longer. When Keira was little if she ever got into the habit of waking before 7 we would try throwing her whole routine out so we could reestablish a slightly more reasonable wake up time. Like having a really late night, a really busy day or throwing in a day sleep (or not). ------------- 
 
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Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 9:49am
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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.  ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 9:58am
| 7am for us. Daniel wakes anytime between 645 and 730, If he wakes before 7, I don't let him outta his room lol |
Posted By: flakesitchyfeet
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 10:03am
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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. -------------  http://lilypie.com"> |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 10:40am
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Spencer wakes between 6-7am, Kyle between 5.30-6am. We just live with it. They go to bed at 7pm each night and we like our evenings child free ------------- 
 
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Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 11:11am
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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. 
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Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 11:35am
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Ella normally wakes up between 6.30 and 7.30. Rule in the house if she wakes up before 7 she has to stay in her room until then- which she is normally fine with and she just gets a couple of her soft toys/dolls and chatters away to them until I come and get her. ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: first
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 11:59am
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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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 1:29pm
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Sirius wakes up anytime between 6:30 and 8am. Lately he has been waking up at 6am, having a bottle then going back to bed til 8am :) ------------- 
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Posted By: monikah
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 1:38pm
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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 ------------- 
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Posted By: tiptoes
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 2:14pm
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I'm just reading the contented little baby and it mentions the same thing monikah says about having black out curtains in their rooms to stop them waking so early. Might be worth a try if you want to shift their wake up times?
We already bought new curtains so I was thinking we might just buy the black out material and stick it over the curtains to see if it does the trick once the baby gets here and he's in his own room (curtains in our room keep it quite dark). ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">  
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 4:01pm
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. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 4:12pm
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7am for us too, except bella, cos she is still little. but caden never wakes before 7, he sometimes sleeps until 8.30 or 9! lol ------------- |
Posted By: skp
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 4:17pm
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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.
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Posted By: M.i.s.s.y
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 4:25pm
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Jades in bed at 7.30pm & she wakes up usually sumtime after 7am & my dh gets her up & changed at 7.30 b4 he leaves 4 work, then i get up & get her brekkie etc. shes always been a sleepy head, so if she does wake earlier we just lie her back down & tell her its still sleep tym & we dont usually hear from her again untill 7.30.
Total Bliss. lol long may it last!!!  -------------    
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Posted By: blondy
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 4:59pm
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.  -------------  
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Posted By: BugTeeny
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 5:01pm
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7am is our rule, too.
We have blackout curtains, Hannah still wakes at 5:30. She can hear the birds and see the light over the top of them. But if she starts to get ratty we just go in, lie her down (without talking) kiss her and say "night night". She usually stays put until 6:30 then play happily. The last couple of mornings she's woken at 6:30 and played happily (ie: destroyed her bedroom) until I go in at 7. ------------- 
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Posted By: Snappy
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 5:04pm
| 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. |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 7:01pm
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E went through a phase of waking at 530 and nothing would get him back to sleep..i just went with it and he got over it now it's 630pm-7-730am ..he is in his cot and I dont want him having stuff in there overnight so he has nothing to amuse himself with and wont settle back to sleep once he is up..but that is ok for us.. so yeah for us 630-7 is fine..but if he was her age i would expect 7 ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: sottise
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 7:47pm
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This morning it was 8:36! :D
It's not morning in our house until 7, although she's definitely allowed to sleep later if she feels so inclined. I'm not a morning person, and 6 is far too early for my liking... 
If she wakes earlier (6:30 is her earliest) she's pretty happy unzipping her sleeping bag and throwing everything out of her cot til I get her up. It'll be interesting to see if / how that changes when she's in a bed she can actually get out of. ------------- 
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 9:45pm
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7am in this house, with a 6.30-7pm bedtime each night.
I'm old fashioned in the belief that you start as you mean to continue, so that bedtime and wake time (although next year it will be 6.30 when I'm working) will carry on through to school age. Ava usually wakes between 6-7am but I either resettle her, just let her grizzle in her bed (as she never takes a bottle that early for some reason), or put her in bed with me. She usually then sleeps til 7.30 sometimes. |
Posted By: NovemberMum
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 9:51pm
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Megan can now open her bedroom door...this morning at 6:30am she was saying "pooh stinky nappy" and course I am busting to go pee so she sees me and wants to get up.
I think I might put the gate across her bedroom so least she cant get out..7am is more acceptable to me ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: hannibal
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 10:02pm
| Hi for us its just after 7 in the mornings during the week as we are getting ready for work and daycare - if its before she will normally settle again at the weekend I get her up between 7.30 - 7.45 its sleep in time! Hubby is gone from the house early at the weekends so it just me and bub. Sometimes she is awake but others we need to wake her which I hate. Bed at nights is between 8-8.30pm she is like the little energizer bunny! Bubs is 13 months. |
Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 14 November 2009 at 10:59pm
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Our girls wake anywhere between 6:30 and 7. Keira would sleep longer but it is Maddi who likes to wake at 6:30 and if she doesn't get her feed straight away she will scream. It would be lovely if she just played happily in her bed. I think her days of still being breastfed are numbered. -------------
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Posted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 15 November 2009 at 12:17am
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7am is "morning" here. Anything before that gets treated like night time (lights stay off and no getting out of the cot). I let C sleep till whenever he likes though - we've had a few 8.30 sleep ins on the odd occasion! Bliss! Our bedrooms are really dark in this house so I find it really hard to wake up in the mornings. In our old place 7am was easy coz the sun would come up and I would be wide awake. Now it still feels like the middle of the night
Sorry, rambling ...  ------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |
Posted By: wellygirl
Date Posted: 15 November 2009 at 8:52am
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6am minimum - sometimes she wakes at 5.30, and I prefer 7, so it's my compromise! But that will change when she's older and the mornings are darker again, I'm sure.
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 15 November 2009 at 2:58pm
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Michaela wakes just before 6am but I refuse to get out of bed before 6:45am so she climbs into bed for a cuddle with me until then. Andrew wakes at 7am so getting up at 6:45am gives me time to have breakfast with M before the first morning feed. -------------  
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Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 15 November 2009 at 5:47pm
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Taylah normally wakes around 630am. But any time from 6am i find acceptable.
If its before 6am she gets a bottle & goes back to bed. She normally will just play until 7ish and want to get up. -------------  
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 16 November 2009 at 6:25am
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Well, 6am seems to be not unacceptable in some houses. I would dearly love it to be later but I can't make her sleep when she isn't tired. Its 6am on the dot every morning at the moment, I think with lighter mornings its not helping but I have accepted it and am getting up when she does. Looking at the positive of it, I am up, dressed and breakfasted before Cam wakes up as he usually feeds about 4amish and then sleeps until 7.30-8am most mornings. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: tishy
Date Posted: 16 November 2009 at 9:44am
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It used to be 7am. They would wake around 6:30am and I would let them in their cots until I was ready to get them. When I got up I would chuck books into them while I got my coffee.
Now the sides are off the cots I have to go in to separate the squabbling over books 
We had a 5:30 start from Aoife today. *yawn* But most days now it's 6am - 6:30am and this is after them settling for the night at 8pm! Roll on the end of teething season! |
Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 16 November 2009 at 9:57am
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My two tend to wake between 5.30 - 6.30 most mornings. For us this isn't a bad thing as DH and I should both be getting out of bed at this time anyway to get ready for work. It would be nice to have a lie in on the weekends though! ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
Posted By: lisa85
Date Posted: 16 November 2009 at 5:52pm
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Our two usually wake between 7-7.30 If they wake before seven I don't get them out of bed. They stay in their room until at least 7. They never cry though they just sit in there chatting to each other until I get them out :) -------------  
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Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 1:49am
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What do you do if your little one is crying tho??? Hayden always wakes up wanting booby and is very upset until and I go and get him (yes he is 15mths and loves his morning booby still
This morning it was 5.30am but his PJ's were a bit wet from the silly nappy, it is usually 6am sometimes 6.30am and every now and again 7am NEVER EVER been 8am  He is asleep in bed at 7pm 90% of the time.
Oooh CuriousG that is hard, when you put Cam back to bed after his 4am feed you have less than 2hrs sleep til you have to get up for the day I take my hat off to you, you are a mummy legend  I cant even fathom how I'd cope with that but then you just do I guess, now if I get woken once in the night I feel like death but it was only this time last year when it was twice a night every night and I survived ------------- 
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Posted By: FreeSpirit
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 7:25am
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For me, wake up and get up are 2 different times - E can wake up anywhere from 5.30, she has a boob and will come into bed with me and either go back to sleep if it's early, or we watch cartoons for half an hour, and get up 6.30-7. ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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