Am I the only one whose slightly older children are slowly killing them through lack of sleep zzzzz honestly I could cry.
Dd is 5 and a bit, ds is 2yrs 9m. Dd is the worst, she can sleep through but rarely does unless heavily incentivised. She probably sleeps through one to four times a week naturally. She'll often wake up at 1:30 for an hour age has done for 2yrs now, although she's better than she was. She goes to bed at 7:30 and tends to get up about 6:30.
Last night was fairly typical, she had me up twice, once for a cough which to be fair was already doing my head in by the time she called me, then a second time about 30 mins later to say she was struggling to get back to sleep.
Ds is actually fairly solid sleeper but is set a bit early. He goes to bed between 6:30/7 and wakes at 5:30. He's good about staying in his bed until his gro clock comes on at 6am but the trouble is he passes the time by singing to himself, very loudly! I've recently stopped his nap, but it hasn't effected his getting up time.
I'm supposed to be going out for a meal with friends tonight, I've got sacks under my eyes, a headache, a permanent bad mood, and my current bedtime is 9:30.