Dc have a scientific theory. Would you help provide data?

[Magnolia]

dd, 7 : born 11:37 am, late owl, as baby slept 10pm-10am, now stays up to midnight and sleeps to about 11am. If we need to be up early (8-9am), she must be in bed by 11pm.

[LizzyBee]

DD#1 was born at 12:03 am. She likes to stay up late, but she is adjusting well to getting up early because she started back to ps last week.

 

DD#2 was born at 1:00 pm. She doesn't mind going to bed early, but she has a hard time falling asleep, so she ends up going to sleep late most nights.

 

DD#3 was born at 4:30 am. In theory, she likes to stay up late. But she runs hard all day long and she falls asleep almost as soon as her head hits the pillow.

[HS in NZ]

But here are our stats:

 

ds born at 11am

dd1 born at 6pm

dd2 born at 1pm

 

They will go to sleep around 8:30-10pm and wake about 8-9am. Times dependent on events. The noticeable thing about my kids is that their sleeping rythms are in sync for the most part. Please post the results! :001_smile:

[Pamela H in Texas]

DD was born at 5:15am

DS was born at 5:15pm

I was born at 7:15am

 

All three of us prefer to stay up a bit. And all 3 of us get up early. We are non-sleepers, I guess. Is that a category?

[keptwoman]

Me: I was born at 12 midday, I'm a night owl

DS J: Born at 3am, nightowl

DS C: Born at 9pm, earlybird.

DD M: Born at 3pm, nightowl

[Mrs Mungo]

I was born in the morning but I'm a night owl.

[GailV]

You know, I've heard this theory before (that birth time relates to sleep preference), so I googled it to see if I could find other studies.

 

And discovered that these days the theory is that it's genetic. It's really pretty interesting to read about.

 

Another rabbit trail: If we didn't have so many birth interventions, would we tend to have more births at a certain time of day/night?

 

And another: How does electrical lighting figure into this? Would so-called night owls

 

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