A lot of people here will say "it gets better", and it does, but be sure to take your health seriously and not let yourself normalize that feeling for the long

A lot of people here will say "it gets better", and it does, but be sure to take your health seriously and not let yourself normalize that feeling for the long-term. Mine are 7 and 4 now and we're well past the sleep-deprived early years, but I realized recently that I had grown accustomed to that feeling and my new baseline is significantly worse, largely due to bad sleep habits. I'm a lot busier now, juggling the needs of 2 kids and my other responsibilities, and for too long I've coasted on ~5-7 hours of sleep thinking it's OK to sacrifice 1-3 hours of sleep in favor of squeezing in extra work or some low-quality leisure time at the end of the day because, "hey, it's still better than it was when they were babies, and I made it through that".