Early to bed support thread! - Page 3

[rayo de sol]

Last night we managed to turn the lights off at 10:00!!! Yay! Not sure if we'll make it tonight, though. Mostly we've been turning in around 10:45-11:00.

I'm still having a lot of waking up at night and being unable to fall back asleep. I wish I could just sleep solid through the night. I feel energized in the middle of the night and completely lethargic and sleepy in the afternoon. What's wrong with this picture?

[Aubergine68]

I've been lurking on this thread....

My problem is that my energy crashes at night and getting the house tidied up and the kids to bed is SOOO hard. And dh often travels for work or works evening, so I am flying solo about half the time or more. And I do home daycare so I have children arriving about 7:30 am, and my own to get going in the morning.

My default bedtime seems to be 11:48 pm. I need it to be about 10:30, would love it to be around 10, with more time to read and fall asleep at my own pace.

Trying to get my life more organized so I can make this work...

[Queen of Cups]

I just have to chime in and say that I started Zoloft in August for depression/anxiety and it had the side effect of curing my life-long insomnia and getting more sleep has made a world of difference for me! (My nurse practitioner thinks I am naturally a low-serotonin producer and that's why my sleep cycles have been so screwed up since childhood.) I feel about a million times better than before, and even my kids are happier now because I'm happier. I never could fall asleep till well after midnight, and now I get tired and go to bed around 10:30 or 11:00 - still late by some people's standards, but worlds better than 1 or 2 or even 3am like it always had been. (we get up at 7-7:30am for school)

Making more sleep a priority is SOOOOO worth it!

[rayo de sol]

How's everybody doing?

I didn't manage to turn in earlier than 10:30pm last week.

Hoping for an earlier night this week... :yawning:

[tanyalynn]

I've been doing badly on a very consistent basis, turning out the lights around 11:30 most nights. Very frustrated with myself.

[jessjgh1]

Originally Posted by rayo de sol

How many hours do other people leave between finishing supper and going to sleep?

That's a good question.... also how much 'alone/me time' do you all want to get?

I feel like after dinner, cleaning up, then putting dd to bed, finishing clean up gets me to 9:30 or 10:00. That's when I can finally sit down and relax.

Often times I don't feel like finishing cleaning up and just sit down at the computer saying, I'll stop and clean up after 15 minutes, but I'll get sucked in.

I'm aiming to be in bed by 10:30 - 11 most nights, dh would prefer 10:00

I'd like to get an hour to do whatever and 30 minutes to wind down.... but I admit I usually go over that because I either get wound up or don't feel tired

Jessica

[dbsam]

Originally Posted by TanyaLopez

I've been doing badly on a very consistent basis, turning out the lights around 11:30 most nights. Very frustrated with myself.

Me too. I cannot get into bed prior to 1:00am. But tonight is another night...

[harrietsmama]

I've been getting to bed, but tired enough that I forget to take my pj's off, and I wake up all night cuz I'm all tangled up in them.: Gotta remember, I have slept in nothing for so long, I just can't sleep in pj's of any sort.

[rayo de sol]

Is anyone else still working on their bedtime?

The night before last, we got the lights off at 9:25pm! Yay!

Last night was 10pm. Usually it's been somewhere between 10 and 11.

Having bright lights at night definitely makes it harder to get to bed early for me. And if I stay up too late, I definitely get a second wind and then don't want to go the bed. And I really can feel the addictive pull of the artificial light. I sorta wish the electric company would just cut us off every night at a set time.

I'm still pretty frustrated with my middle-of-the-night insomnia. I just lie there in the dark thinking and worrying about stuff for an hour or two, usually at around 3, 4, or 5 AM.

[Aubergine68]

I was up until 1 am last night, and then all three of my children were up in the night. The two year old did this mysterious tantrum in his sleep about wanting his purple socks (?) and that woke everyone else up. We did the musical beds thing and no one slept well, or enough.

Today I was really cranky and unpleasant.

Dh is away on a business trip, so I'm totally outnumbered tonight. And I have to work in the morning.

Must. Go. To. Bed. Real. Soon. But How?

[harrietsmama]

Originally Posted by rayo de sol

Is anyone else still working on their bedtime?

The night before last, we got the lights off at 9:25pm! Yay!

Last night was 10pm. Usually it's been somewhere between 10 and 11.

Having bright lights at night definitely makes it harder to get to bed early for me. And if I stay up too late, I definitely get a second wind and then don't want to go the bed. And I really can feel the addictive pull of the artificial light. I sorta wish the electric company would just cut us off every night at a set time.

I'm still pretty frustrated with my middle-of-the-night insomnia. I just lie there in the dark thinking and worrying about stuff for an hour or two, usually at around 3, 4, or 5 AM.

I am! I have been taking meds earlier and at least just letting the drowsy happen, and if I fall asleep on the couch, at least I fell asleep. I just hate it when dp sleep walks. If the bed is empty, I wake up. Grrr. Last night he did a bunch of weird stuff, like one of his slippers was on the kitchen counter, and the other was under the bed - ? He's compulsive about setting them up so he can just put them on first thing. A bunch of other strange stuff. It's been awhile since he did this, but he's had a few episodes lately. I usually only wake up enough to realize he isn't there, yell for him, and then I'm in that in between space, where you aren't getting rested, but you aren't awake either.