If you didn't know, I work nights.
It means that three times a week, I don't get home till midnight.
I almost always tuck myself into bed as soon as I get home.
Well maybe sometimes I take a quick sneak peak at my emails......
But I need your advice to help me sleep.
If it's not bad enough, the alarm goes off at 6.30am weekdays.
But lately the alarm hasn't even been required.
Zander is causing lots of chaos.
This is why I need your tips to help me sleep.
Often Tom needs to get up around 5ish to go to the loo, at this point I hear "Hi Tom Tom" and there it is 'Awake'
'Mum, mumma, up, mummmmmm, mumma'
I've tried putting him into bed with me, but I don't really appreciate him walking across my head as he tries to get up and start the day. There is no rest in that.
Yesterday we decided to finally put into place a temporary measure.
Will it work?
Maybe.... if we had of rolled it out successfully!
We thought, perhaps if we moved Lulu into Tom's room for six months or so and Zander in to Lulu's, then Zander wouldn't stir so early as he'd have no distractions.
But we didn't do the measurements right, Lulu's bed doesn't easily fit into Tom's room.
Failure no. 1.
So now they're shacked up side by side, which is going to drive me batty in all of 24 hours.
Then to get the cot into Lulu's room we needed to disassemble and reassemble.
But somewhere along the line we lost a bolt. A custom fitting bolt.
Failure no. 2.
Last night Zander slept in the port-a-cot, but clearly this also can't be a long term solution.
Fingers crossed he'll at least sleep past 5am in a room of his own.
Do your kids share a room? If so what are your tips to help me sleep? or my kids for that matter!
Working nights and backing it up with a school run in the morning is not my idea of fun people. Waking up before necessary is my idea of a nightmare. #firstworldproblems
Fingers crossed this missing bolt reappears, we were hoping to get another year out of the cot!
I don't think I'll get any sleep if the little man can get in and out of a bed at his own leisure.
Thanking you in advance for your tips and advice.
Oh Mandy, early mornings after late nights ae not fun. Our kids do share. We had all 3 girls in one room with a set of bunk beds, it wasn't perfect but worked for us. When our eldest started school we moved her in with our baby boy, so she could go to sleep uninterrupted and sleep in if she wanted. It has worked for now.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand I took the other two girls to a naturopath to help them wind down before sleep and it's made a big difference to their bedtime routine, they are a lot more settled.
They are still early risers though!
Good luck with finding the bolt for the cot. Hope you get some good sleep soon.
Ouch, I remember working late shifts, quick changes, kid madness and trying to stay sane. I flatly refused to let my kids get out of bed before 7. They always had a digital clock in their room and knew what the number 7 looked like, they weren't allowed up unless the first number was a 7. I remember one morning when AJ was about 2, he came upstairs saying, I saw a 7 mama. A quick check of my clock and I saw it was 6.57 so I took him back to his bed for those extra 3 minutes! There were days that they wouldn't stay in bed so I would grab a pillow and blanket and curl up outside their room on the floor. It was less than perfect but they realised that they needed to stay into bed until 7 and I was far more stubborn than they were!
ReplyDeleteNow a billion years later, they still sleep in till 7, or are so quiet I can't hear them sneak downstairs. Either way, WIN :-)
Love it! I have the 7 o'clock rule too!
DeleteNo advice - just sympathy.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get those zzzzzzs soon.
:-) x
Oh I have no advice. I only have 2 kids so they have a bedroom each but the youngest who is 3, still wakes too early (5.30am the other morning - then she is tired all day but won't have a day sleep).
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to say good luck in finding a solution that works for you and your family!
I hope it's going ok! My kids are sharing at the moment and I can't wait to get them in their own rooms. Not so much a problem in the morning but going to bed is a saga.
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