For a first try I don't think it's gone too badly. I have found that trying to nap in the early afternoon is practically impossible with such a small house and so many (2) other people in it.

However moving the nap to lunch time did largely resolve that.

It didn't help to resolve my other main "problem" - the girlfriend factor! Apparently it's unreasonable to stay up until 1am each day when your partner is still going to bed at a more normal time (although often only an hour or two earlier here).

My plan had always been to start out staying up late, as I find it much easier to be up late than I do getting up early. Then once I was in the swing of things, to move it around so that I had a more normal bed time but got up much earlier. Hopefully this would be less disruptive to a relationship.

It does have some downsides though, namely:- * I'm not a morning person * I work best in the evening/night

Anyway, bowing to the pressure after only three days, I switched to an earlier bed time along with an earlier start. To my slight surprise it actually wasn't all that hard to stick to.

Then the weekend arrived! Without the structure of a working day yet with the extra parental duties, chores and general time guzzlers that tend to occur during the two "restful" days of the week, I completely failed to find any nap time!

A fairly late evening meal out on Saturday led to the complete break down of the system. Both Saturday and Sunday were a write off.

So next week I start again. Hopefully with early to bed, early to rise plus lunch time naps. We'll see what happens.