I need some outside opinions on this please! My Dd age 7 has had a lot of sleep problems since she was 4. We're at the point now where she has so many sleep crutches I don't quite know which way to go. Do I keep going with all this? Take some away? Try something else?
She has a bed tent, a weighted blanket, many soft toys, a worry monster soft toy that eats worries, music that plays all night for example children's meditations, a red night light. It can take a long while for her to fall asleep, during which time really she wants a parent upstairs. Some nights she will call multiple times that she can't sleep etc or has a bad thought. This is every evening. Husband and I would like our evenings back!
Some nights she will also have me up in the night 3 or 4 times. This is less than once a week but still notable that when she throws a bad night in, it's like she's just awake. She can't /won't just lie there awake without calling me.
It's 9pm now, she's repeatedly calling me, crying that she's thinking about a film she watched earlier (hook - which I now regret!). But if it wasn't that it would honestly be something else.