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I'm in the same boat. Two children both under four and two cats. I used to be a real night owl. Now I'm in bed at 9:30 pm almost every night.

Cats are better now. We have confined them away from our bedroom At night and we used a water spray (fine mist) which put them off scratching at the door. After a week or so of getting wet they stopped scratching.

Tried the old water spary trick on our oldest child when she kept waking me up at 5 am. Didn't work. Made her cry.

Just kidding! :-)