I am a SAHM and generally I just let ds sleep as long as he wants. He is 18 months. He goes to sleep at 10:00 at night when we do, and usually sleeps until 9:00. He does not always take a nap. With his disposition, it isn't the end of the world if he doesn't get his nap, though I do notice some difference.
Anyway, when he doesn't get up until 9:00 or later, it can sometimes be difficult to do things that I want to do. For example, we have Music Together classes on Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. Apparently that isn't an early hour for everyone else, but for us, it's like getting up at the crack of dawn. Last week we were 20 minutes late because ds is not one who can be hurried through his morning routine.
Ideally, I would love it if he woke at 7:30 because then I could go for a walk with him right after dh leaves for work. Once it warms up, I will want to spend some time in the garden. I would love to have time to do all that early in the morning while it is nice and still have time to go places at a reasonable hour.
I just feel like I'm a slave to his schedule, whenever he wakes up every day. I know WOHP's have to wake their children at a regular hour every day in order to get to work on time. Would it be horrible of me as a SAHM to start having some kind of morning wake time as well? Then we could do our morning routine, and maybe he'd be more consistent in his naps.
We just nightweaned - successfully. I'm a morning person, and his sleeping in like he does is beginning to be the same problem for me that his nursing four times a night was doing. I just think I would be a much happier person and much better mother if I had more time to do things in my morning routine. I love mornings, and that's when I get things done the best. There are things that just don't get done now - like vacuuming - because I cannot do them until he is awake and then I don't have time until the afternoon when I really don't feel like doing anything.
Anyway, when he doesn't get up until 9:00 or later, it can sometimes be difficult to do things that I want to do. For example, we have Music Together classes on Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. Apparently that isn't an early hour for everyone else, but for us, it's like getting up at the crack of dawn. Last week we were 20 minutes late because ds is not one who can be hurried through his morning routine.
Ideally, I would love it if he woke at 7:30 because then I could go for a walk with him right after dh leaves for work. Once it warms up, I will want to spend some time in the garden. I would love to have time to do all that early in the morning while it is nice and still have time to go places at a reasonable hour.
I just feel like I'm a slave to his schedule, whenever he wakes up every day. I know WOHP's have to wake their children at a regular hour every day in order to get to work on time. Would it be horrible of me as a SAHM to start having some kind of morning wake time as well? Then we could do our morning routine, and maybe he'd be more consistent in his naps.
We just nightweaned - successfully. I'm a morning person, and his sleeping in like he does is beginning to be the same problem for me that his nursing four times a night was doing. I just think I would be a much happier person and much better mother if I had more time to do things in my morning routine. I love mornings, and that's when I get things done the best. There are things that just don't get done now - like vacuuming - because I cannot do them until he is awake and then I don't have time until the afternoon when I really don't feel like doing anything.
I sort of make them stay in bed until 7, if ds wakes up before that I tell him it's still night so go back to sleep (we all cosleep) dd marathon nurses from about 4-until whenever, so at 7 she just gets up because I stop nursing.
