To think pesto has magical sleeping properties

[CeCeBloomer]

Everytime my dd has pesto pasta she has the best nights sleep - 13 hrs straight last night (she didn't sleep for 2.5 yrs - now nearly 3).
She always eats a good meal at dinner time so it's not that she is more full up or anything like that but she always sleeps so well after pesto pasta - it's wierd

[TooMinty]

Quick, patent your pesto recipe and make a fortune selling it to sleep deprived parents! I bought the lavender bath stuff and Ewan the Dream sheep, I totally would have got "sleep pesto" when DS1 was being weaned...

[bumbleymummy]

'sleep pesto'. It does sound like something that could be marketed!

[wettunwindee]

Pasta does, not sure about the pesto.

My boys (2 sons and a husband) always sleep well with a belly full of pasta or rice.

[AndHoldTheBun]

It's probably the belly full of pasta, a potato based meal will do the same for DS ... we call that a "carb coma" in this house

[Sairelou]

Ha someone needs to tell my 19mo DD she should have been in a carb coma last night after the huge plateful of pasta she ate. 3 times she was awake! Granted it was a tomato sauce not pesto so I'll have to try it out for scientific purposes

[Whatsername17]

If I eat the pesto will my bf baby sleep through? hopeful!

[TakeThatFuckingDressOffNow]

It's the magic of Italian carbs and Parmesan - Try risotto giallo alla Milanese recipes. You'll all sleep like babies......

[CeCeBloomer]

Yep tomato pasta does not have the same effect at all - it is specifically pesto!