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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi. I have a 6.5 and 1.5 year old that both sleep all night in their own rooms. I still have not slept past 630am in almost 7 years. You don’t ever get uninterrupted sleep again. There is always something (someone loses a plushie in the night, someone has a cough, nightmare etc). Mom is always “on”. I have learned to sleep deeply when I can and we are never up after 11 anymore unless it’s a special night out. 
It’s the reality of being a parent of young kids.[/quote]

This is not universally accurate.
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I think it's true in the sense that you cannot count on getting an uninterrupted night of sleep as a parent the way you can as a non-parent. Even once your kids are sleeping through the night, to PP's point, there's illness, nightmares, pooping a diaper, having to go potty, etc.  I have a 2 and a 4 year old and while we can go weeks with nobody getting us up at night, and there can suddenly be 3 nights in a row where our sleep is interrupted by one or both kids.  I find I don't sleep as soundly as a did pre-kids because I'm always half expecting to hear a cry, or footsteps coming down the stairs.[/quote]

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