DS5 is on 4mg melatonin at night and generally goes of to sleep reasonably. I sit in with him until he’s asleep which is usually within 15 mins of lights off. Got a good routine in place for bedtime.
However, once he wakes (anytime from 10pm but might be midnight on a good night) he doesn’t want to be in his bed and if we enforce it then he has an epic meltdown. Waking DD up, so loud that neighbours text to see if we’re ok, getting himself in a state and of course nobody gets any sleep.
we spent months and months putting him back to bed with all of the above and it was awful. Everyone was exhausted and distressed. So we went the other way and bought ourselves a bigger bed so that he could sleep with us when he wakes.
in some ways it works - we all sleep, which is the main thing. But it means our evenings aren’t our own, we can’t watch a whole film for example. We don’t get to have sex at night (either a quickie downstairs before he wakes, or we take our lunch breaks together to do it then!).
I just don’t know what to do for the best. Wait for him to grow out of it? With no idea of how many years that could take. Or take a different approach? And any suggestions appreciated. I don’t want DS to be distressed but at some stage we would like to reclaim our bed.