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My 5 year old wakes up around 7:30am. We have a consistent calming routine before light out at 8:30pm. She calmly lays there and listens to a quiet story on her Yoto. She does a pretty good job laying there in her own bed although sometimes needs something or needs us to check on her before ultimately falling asleep between 10-10:30pm. She generally seems like she wants to sleep longer in the morning but is woken up by siblings or we need to go somewhere. She'll cry and say "I'm too tired, I just want to keep sleeping."

Official recommendations I've seen say to have at least 10 hours of sleep per night and she's consistently under that amount. We have tried putting her to bed early and it still takes that long. We've tried shifting bedtime earlier and wakeup earlier and it just doesn't seem to work. The only time she falls asleep faster is if we lay with her. Then it only takes her 1 hour to fall asleep.

Is she just low sleep needs? If so, I feel bad for making her spend 2 hours of her day just laying in bed. But she seems like she'd benefit from more sleep. I just don't know how to make it happen without having to lay with her for an hour.

Just turned 18 months and for awhile he'd been doing well with a 5.5/5.5 or 6/5.5 schedule. 2 hour nap. He'd wake once or twice at night. After a long illness we had to re-establish independent sleep at bedtime. It took two nights and now he does well at bedtime but nighttime has absolutely fallen apart over the last month and now he has 3-4 night wakings. They're all over the place. Sometimes they're evenly spaced throughout the night. Sometimes he'll sleep a really long first chunk of the night and then wake every 30 min from 2-4am.

He does generally still have one feeding overnight which I know I need to work on weaning. It hadn't been causing issues before all this so I'm not sure if these issues are related or if we have a schedule issue or what.

He's never been an amazing sleeper but we had been in a predictable pattern of 1-2 wakeups. But the last 3 weeks have just gone to crap and now he's waking up 4 times a night and has had several very early morning wakeups. It's been too long to be teething or illness so just want to double check his schedule. I have tried a longer bedtime wake window but anything over 5.5 hours results in worse sleep so I try to keep the longest wake window in the morning.

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Wake: 7:15

Nap 1-2:30 or 3

Bed: 8-8:30

When I first listened to the series, I had no idea how deep the symbolism and intricacies of all the details went. It wasn't until I finished the last one that I came over to Reddit and was impressed by all of your insights.

I'm going to start another listen through soon and want to pay more attention to these details. I've even seen some of you say you dedicated a read through to noticing colors or flowers. I don't know if I can go that deep into it but I would like to go past a surface level entertainment. Any advice on things to look for and notice?