Are you getting enough sleep?

My daughter has just in the last couple of weeks started sleeping longer through the night, she is 2 years old and has been a nightmare. She still wakes up but only to be tucked in, so thats not too bad, I can cope with that! So I am getting a good 7 hours sleep again, and I tell you it makes all the difference. I certainly do not envy you with the teething one, and then you work as well, you must be very busy. Mind you, I have 4 children in total and so I get pretty busy myself. I just look forward to the days at the weekend when I can actually have a lie in again and not have to be up at 7am everyday with the young ones, oh that would be such bliss, I think those days are gone for a long time yet!

I have a 18 months too and mostly he wakes up at midnite too. But actually I could sleep at 10 pm, bout I never sleep at that time and most go to bet at 1 am. I don't know why but maybe coz I never sleep early. And mostly I wake up at 8 am. That is the time my boy wake up.

I have 4 kids (7, 6, 5 and 2) and I average about 5 hours a night. Most of that is do to insomnia. My brain just won't shut down at night and I'm usually up until 1 or 2am and then I have to be up around 7am to get the kids ready for school (my alarm goes off at 6:40 but I usually hit the snooze button and just lie in bed for 10-15 minutes). Most days I have to take a nap to make it to dinner time and I never take just a 20 minute nap--that would leave me with a migraine. Yesterday I slept for 2 hours after my 5yo went to school. I woke up when my husband went to get the other kids from school. A couple weeks ago I calculated I had lost 17 hours of sleep the previous week from my insomnia. It was so bad I couldn't even take naps no matter how tired I was. I would just lay awake in bed, tears in my eyes because I was so tired but I couldn't sleep. That got me and I finally gave in and took some sleeping pills. I've been sleeping better since then--probably getting more like 7 hours most nights. When I was pregnant with my youngest I was averaging 3 1/2-5 hours a night for months before and after she was born and getting almost no naps during the day. I'm not really sure how I survived that. It's funny because in college I couldn't survive on less then 8-10 hours of sleep. I didn't know how people did it. Now I need about 6 hours a night to be good for the day. I can go weeks at a time on just 6 hours a night of sleep.

I have the same problem as you.. My daughter is 19 months and i'm also 9 and a half months preggo.. i have one week left till my c section happens. I cant wait. no more getting up to pee every 5 mins. I know the babies will both have me up a lot through thenight but at least i can just feed them or cuddle them and go back to sleep without getting out of my bed ;)

I think lack of sleep comes with the territory of being a mom, particularly when your children are under the age of three. My youngest is now two years old, so I usually get eight hours of sleep, but sometimes I stay up late getting things done that I can't seem to get done when the kiddos are awake.

oh you're still lucky that you can get 5 hours of sleep. i have 3 kids, 9 ,3, and 7 months old. my 9 year old kid sleeps between 10 -11pm after so much convincing power that he has to sleep but wakes up too early at 6am sometimes at 5am even his class starts at 12nn. my 3 year old sleeps at 1am after finishing watching the cartoons he liked and watching the news with me, but wakes up a little late around 10am. my youngest baby sleeps early at 7pm but wakes up too early also at 4-5 am. as you can see i dont know how can i get enough sleep. but even these sleeping schedules of my kids needs me to keep awake so i can attend to their needs especially when it comes to my two younger children like giving them milk or changing their diapers, i just let it be. waking up 4-5 am allow me to bond with my youngest, staying late as 1am with my second, and need to be still awake for my eldest, im still okay and glad because i knew that i attend to their needs as a mother. i know that there will come a time that i will get my enough sleep at the right time when they are grown up, but surely i will treasure these moments of sleeplessness.

i don't have a child yet... so at the moment i still have enough sleep... i usually average about 6-7 hours of sleep... i can never sleep more than 7 hours a day... that's a maximum for me...

When my boys were small, I never got much sleep, and it took me a long time after they are grown, to sleep all through the night, but now that I am getting older, I have to wake up, not to feed little ones or change them, it is to go to the washroom. I do take an afternoon nap, and I now have estimated between the nap and the time I sleep I average between seven to eight hours a night. In fact if I am lucky to get eight hours or more, the next night, I find that I do not sleep as long to make up for the extra sleep I was not supposed to have.

I go to sleep 22:00 pm and woke up 6:00-7:30 am but my children are big. You are young mother so good luck to you.

I have a 4 month old who thinks 3am is a good time to settle down for the night. My 5 year old doesn't want to miss anything, so he does his best to try to stay up as late as the baby. The 15 an 19 yo however have a regular daytime schedule, so they think nothing of waking me up at 7am to ask where their socks are or whatever. Like you, I'm lucky if I get 5 hours at night, but most days I can get a 2 hour nap in, so I'm not too sleep deprived and someday I know my sleeping schedule will go back to normal.

I went to bed at 11pm last night and woke up at 3am. My body doesnt' let me sleep well. Sometimes when I wake up to feed my 9 month old my head just starts thinking about the craziest stuff like I can't think about that some other time. Its like hello head stop thinking and go to sleep. It runs in my family that we have trouble sleeping. It sucks but when I need my sleep I will get it. I'm sure I will take a nap at some point today even though its a pretty busy day with having to dye eggs with the kids and other things on my to do list. Nice discussion.

first of all i sleep almost 8 hours per day sometimes it is even more secaond i will give you an advise you have to get sleep at least 6 hours per day and it must be at night not at morning so you body recharg again and you can do your work next day and if you didn't do that you will force your body to spent power more than what it have so after little years your body woun't be able to do what he used to do with normal effort special you will get older and after that you woun't be able to do anything that take little effort in the end you will destory your body in the future

For the past few days I haven't been getting enough sleep. I usually get 5-6 hours of sleep and I wake up and feel really tired in the morning. I wish I can sleep at least 7-8 hours, but I am a light sleeper and even the slightest sound or movement can wake me up.

I'm right there with you sometimes i only get like 2 hrs of sleep especially now since one of my children is teething. The older one thinks that just because everyone else is up he should be too, so we go to bed like 2 or 3 everynight and wake up at 5. It's really hard to stay awake, but we just gotta keep truckin.

I am getting pretty decent sleep. There are days when I am more tired than others, depending on what we hae done that day, but on a regular basis, I think I'm doing ust fine. If I have a day that's busier than usual, I might go to bed earlier, or get up later the next day, because I am tired.

I am definitely not getting enough sleep. I work alot of hours each day and by the time I spend time with my husband and my daughter daily and cook and eat, I am wore out. I get about 4 or 5 hours of sleep each day and get right back at it again. I hardly ever get 8 hours anymore. I think my body is kind of getting used to it. I have too much to do and there is not enough time to sleep.

I now try my best to go to bed before 12 in the night. For it is said that fallin asleep in the 11-1 in th night can help you recover better than any other time. If you can sleep in that two hours, you will find your body is much better than fall asleep in 3 and get up in the 10. So I think you can change your time table a little. and do not make your body so tired.

Most of the time i get the usual eight hours sleep.but during exams or if i have some work i have sleep for six hours.

well i used to work nites so if i go bed early i have trouble sleeping then nxt day i feel worser for it

Sleep deprived and motherhood are two thing that go hand in hand. My son will be 2 in June and he still does not like to sleep on his own. I have tried several times to get him go sleep on his own, but I always end up sleeping on the floor beside his bed until he falls asleep. Some nights I fall asleep on the floor waking up at 3 or so in the morning a few mornings my husband has nudged me awake as he's getting ready to leave for work. Here lately I've been waking up to being kicked only to find my son has crawled into bed with us. This week I thought I would try something new, I have moved a twin bed into his room. He seems to think that it is neat getting in and out by himself. A sleep deprived mom can hope that he'll sleep in it, right?