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  Normal amount of sl...
  Normal amount of sleep??
  I seen recently on here that having a child will ruin your sleep for up to 6 years....
  https://rollercoaster.ie/baby-new-cats/having-a-baby-will-ruin-your-sleep-for-up-to-six-years
  Our first is 3.5 years old and our youngest will be 2 in a few months so we still have a while to go to get back to 'normal'.
  I reckon on a good night i will get 5 hours sleep but am still primed to wake up intermittently every now and again during the night to make sure all if fine.
  Lot of studies recently on now lake of sleep is literally killing us and taking years off our lives...
  For those with children over 1 - as i know with a newborn it can be much less that 5 hours a night : ( - what would you consider a good number of hours to get each night? Any tips to make sure you get a proper nights sleep? Going to bed earlier? No screen time at bed time?
  Posted : 20/05/2019 10:53 am
  Sleep expert Lucy Wolfe goes by the idea that if children are over tired before bed they won't sleep well. Usually if children don't sleep well people put them to bed later but this actually makes them over tired. She says if they're not sleeping long enough bring the bedtime to an earlier time. According to her being well rested before bed leads to a better quality of sleep.
  We've gone with that advice and it seems to work for us. Our 3 year old goes to bed at 7pm and sleeps right through till 8am every night .
  Posted : 20/05/2019 8:53 pm
  Wow - that is great! Literally cannot remember the last time i slept till 8am : )
  Yes i am a big believer in the theory that they can be over tired.
  Like you, bedtime in our house for the kids is 7pm. Our youngest who is nearly 2 will usually go to sleep very quickly but will never sleep past 6am. Our oldest (3.5 years old) started getting ready for bed at 7 last night, lights out after some stories half an hour later. Didn't actually fall asleep till 10pm... We found a similar thing last year with him. With it not getting dark till very now now plus it being much warmer at night he can struggle to fall asleep at night - we are planning to stop his daily naps in creche shortly so hopefully that will mean he falls asleep quicker during the summer...
  Posted : 21/05/2019 9:12 am
  Do you use blackout blinds? We have portable stick on ones by Gro Anywhere, they're a lifesaver!
  Posted : 21/05/2019 8:00 pm
  Yes, they really are a lifesaver. Just recently we got them in all rooms upstairs and even the landing window now has one. Makes such a difference. To be fair our eldest only two 2 hours to fall asleep last night (so that is progress i guess from the 3 hours the night before...) and to be honest i fell asleep in the chair before him last night : )
  Trialing no naps in the creche from today with him so hopefully that will improve things even more.
  Our youngest has not adapted back to his usual routine since returning from a brief family holiday away in Spain recently; taking longer to fall asleep and waking up at 11:30 pm the last two nights and won't go back to sleep then : (