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I need to get up without waking the wife and kids, I got a smartwatch to vibrate and it woke her. The alarm is always going to wake the house.

Is there anything else?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If your wife is such a light sleeper that a vibrating watch is waking her perhaps sleeping in a separate room when you need to wake up at a certain time would work?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Separate rooms is definitely not an option. It's not so much super light sleeper just she is nursing and I'd like to get a workout in before everyone else wakes. If I wake the kids we're all screwed if I wake her I ruin what peace she gets.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you need to change the time you do the workout.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

Put the watch on your ankle? Probably idiotic, but that might be silent enough. And you'd have to do some work to make it stop, waking you up efficiently.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Try a different watch or adjust the haptics to make it vibrate less? Casio sells an inexpensive alarm watch that vibrates if you can't dial the watch back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A split king bed did wonders for my wife and I. I never feel her move. Now, if it's noise that wakes her up, a sound machine could help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Split king? So, two mattresses and one duvet, is it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It's essentially 2 twin xl mattress side by side. You can use one duvet, but we blanket fight, so we use 2 separate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't suppose there's room for a bed in the babies' room, so after the mid-night nursings she could sleep in there until they're hungry again? Only if she wants to, of course. It can be more restful than trying to sleep with your ears on High for sounds of distress from the other room, which also makes you oversensitive to hubby's alarm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The baby is in our room, and the others have their own, but the house is old and creaky, so I tread carefully.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Literally or figuratively?

Could you or her be occupying another room for a few weeks/months or is it worth a fight

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What I'm trying to do is not worth sleeping alone, I just want to get a workout in before the day starts and waking anyone will just start the day earlier. But sleeping separately is worse than being out of shape.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

To each their own, I'd say for a few weeks no biggie. Obviously cuddle/rest together

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Having raised many kids, you have to take your extra time where you can actually find it. If your family is early to rise, work out before bed instead, after they go to sleep. I have done early morning workouts, late night workouts, lunch time workouts. It may be that you can't have morning time alone right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And why is a different room definitely not an option?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

prob bc houses have finite space

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Because this is an ongoing situation, and I don't want to sleep without my partner.