[kryztuh]

Cross posted in life with a babe.

Do you have to wake up your little one in the morning to take them to childcare (or any reason for that matter)? I am really hating to do this because it seems like DS (6 months) needs his sleep and wondered how common this is.

 

[FancyPants]

Well I do not get my kids up in the morning. I wake before my husband. But he says that he does indeed often have to wake our 5 year old up to get him to his childcare.

 

[artemis80]

Yes, and DS is no more a morning person than I am. We have to leave around 7:15 and he doesn't wake up until 8 or 8:30 if left to his own devices. He is super fussy when I wake him up. I feel bad for him because I know how hard it is to get up, having just done it myself an hour ago. Ugh.

 

[meemee]

no.

i had to leave super early. so i would have my dd dressed the night before. we did this at 2 when seh was out of diapers. i would put her in the stroller and seh woudl continue sleeping. usually. she would wake up at bfast in ps/dc.

 

[LilMomma83]

Yes.

I wake my 2yo up (and this has been the case for the whole year that I've been leaving the house around 7:15). He hates it...we turn on the TV, and give him a bottle of milk and DH (when he's home) changes his diaper and puts his shoes on (he sleeps in his clothes). He carries his bottle and like 3 stuffed animals out to the car and all the way to daycare, and is fed breakfast there.

I feel bad, our pediatrician said he's not getting enough sleep if we wake him up (take this morning, I'm off work and it is nearly an hour past when I would have waken him, he is still sleeping soundly--and nobody is even in the bed with him!) I put him to bed pretty early though (most nights, some nights I work a second job and we don't get home until 8:30 or so) but, he is usually sleeping around 8pm...

 

[meandmine]

Yes. I don't like it one bit. My younger dd is struggling in school and I think one of the reasons is she isn't getting enough sleep. I wake them at 6:15 and we leave at 7:10 am. She prefers to sleep until between 7:30 and 8:00 am.

We try to have the kids in bed by 8:30 pm; should be lots earlier, but when I pick 'em up at 6 pm, there's dinner, piano, sports, homework ... you name it.

I wish there were more work scenarios that did not require folks to make these kinds of choices for their kids.

M

 

[Alyantavid]

Yes, unfortunately. I have to have both my kids up by 6:30 and neither of them are morning people. I wish I could let them wake up on their own but right now, that's not possible.

 

[soccermama]

Sometimes, yes. I wake up at 6:30/6:40a every morning and get ready before I wake him up. I try to keep him on a routine of potty, dress, breakfast, brush teeth and then we go. It seems to work out well, but same days, it takes him a little longer to wake up.
When H is home (not traveling), I let him sleep in and H takes him to school (like this morning).

 

[CatsCradle]

On school/week days, I get up at 6:30 and get ready and then get DD up at 7:15. She complains a lot, but by the time we are at the subway at 7:50 am, she's fully awake and ready to start the day. The more I live with her the more I realize that she is not a morning person.

But, on the days that we are off, DD gets up as early as 5:30 am on her own. She pokes at me and hold my eyelids open until I get up. She also plays loud musical instruments and tells me that she is "really, really hungry and thirsty." Go figure.

 

[glorio]

No, but I have an early bird. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I have EVER had to wake him up... and he's almost 6. Even when our routine had us leaving the house pretty early he bounces out of bed like a spring. He has all kinds of sleep issues though.

 

[Ellien C]

Yes - have had to do it for years. She is 6 now. It's totally awful!

 

[ShwarmaQueen]

Yes. I hate it, especially when I know she went to bed late and is soo sleepy. My only saving grace is that she'll go down for a 2 hr nap (or less) if she needs one around noon.

Sometimes, I also do the dressing her in her clothes the night before and it does make mornings easier!

 

[jitterBug mom]

I think maybe when our LO was very young we had to wake him more often, but I think he'd sort of hear us moving around and wake up since he co-slept. Now that he is almost two, he is really routine-oriented and wakes up by himself at almost the same time every day (around 7am). If he happens to sleep later, then yes, I will wake him. But it doesn't happen much - believe me, I wish he would sleep later on the weekends! He is usually asleep around 8 at night and takes a two hour nap each afternoon. Back when he was 6 months old he was taking an additional one hour morning nap.

If I felt my LO was still tired in the morning, I'd probably try to move his bedtime earlier.

 

[MeepyCat]

I've had to do it sometimes, and for us it always makes for a grouchy morning. We eventually moved bedtime forward (for a few weeks, he refused to nap, and went to bed at 6 p.m.) so that he'd wake up on his own in the morning, but not all kids are so flexible about bedtime. Honestly, I hated those weeks - I felt like I never got to see him - so I was glad when he started napping again.