Please help me sleep better. I have three children, 6, 4 and 18 months and I really need sleep to be better.
Funnily enough I feel like the 18 month old is okay, at least it's reasonably normal for her to wake in the night. The big two just need so much reassurance. They still both need someone with them to fall asleep but it takes so long. DH is here all the time too and it takes us both til half nine to get them to sleep. I have tried a gradual retreat type approach with them both, reward charts as well. The four year old was better but I think now sees the 6 year old get lots of attention so is starting to play up more and more. Bed times are early enough I think, routine is fairly uncomplicated, lots of wind down time etc. Currently my husband and I sleep in separate beds cos in the night 6 and 4 come in to bed with me and 18 months goes into bed with him. One of them is usually in an adult bed by 10pm.
I'm just not sure where to begin tbh and I'm tired. Part of me tho is that it makes sense that children need reassurance at night, the other part of me is just so sorting tired.