To have known nothing about this parenting hack?

[PastelPompoms]

This is a real game changer. I discovered that on the BBC sounds app there is 8 hours of calming sleep sounds for children (a variety from white noise to waves, car Journey noises etc)

This is a game changer for me! The car one is amazing and even has indicator sounds etc so if your child likes to sleep in the car, try this, it’s great!

I can’t believe I didn’t know about this!!! Anyone else?!

Looks like everyone else knew😱

Well I didn't know but I have a strictly limited need for it with grown up children!

I didn't know there was one on BBC sounds but there are lots on YouTube - we had a box thing that clipped onto the side of the cot for both of ours that played various white noise sounds and it was the best £20 we ever spent. I even used to put it in the pram with my fussy DD!

I didn’t know about this either, thank you 🙏

Loads of those on Spotify too

Sadly my sister does.

8 hours of tinny music and sounds from a mobile phone all night which I can hear through the walls.

Honestly how did we manage as kids to get to sleep?

Well I didn't know but I have a strictly limited need for it with grown up children!

😂

I didn’t know but ‘calming sleep noises’ didn’t work for my children so wouldn’t have been a game changer anyway. Happy for you that you have found something that works.

I have YouTube white noise on every night. Mostly for me now

I seem to have the only toddler in the world who has a massive dislike for noise in his room 🤣

I didn't know either, but white noise doesn't seem to work on DS. Glad it works for you though!

@Abouttimemum

I seem to have the only toddler in the world who has a massive dislike for noise in his room 🤣

Oh bless him, sensible boy! ❤️

I listen to brown noise or red noise via youtube every night to help me sleep - I have terrible insomnia and it just magically switches my brain off.
I love thunderstorms, rain or just really deep foresty rustling noises
Weird but it works!

Could you post a link...?

For me and DP 😬

35 years ago I had a cassette tape of white noise. It sent DSs straight off to sleep but sadly the tape was only 30 minutes long and when it ended there was a loud click which used to wake them up.

I like pink noise. I found an app which had all sorts of varieties, pink works for me.

White noise on you tube may be the one thing that's saving my marriage...

@Silvercatowner

35 years ago I had a cassette tape of white noise. It sent DSs straight off to sleep but sadly the tape was only 30 minutes long and when it ended there was a loud click which used to wake them up.

Teenagers now would be more freaked out at a cassette tape and wonder wtf it is!

Dd is normally a great sleeper but on a night away with her recently she couldn't drop off (7yo). I played "Stephen Frys Lavender Story" on YouTube and she was gone in about 3mins. Magic.

@FlatulentSproutEater

Well I didn't know but I have a strictly limited need for it with grown up children!

With adult children there is sometimes a need to use the app for yourself - even if they don’t still live with you.

Alexa has it too.

Love it! We have ‘rain’ or ‘fab’ on every night for our 4 month old.

DD is 23 and the only nightmare sleeper out of my six kids.

I would have paid THOUSANDS for this when she was little! I am sure that my mother would have done too when I was a baby as I was a monumental PITA regarding sleep too.

She didnt "get [me] to sleep", she just spent three years on her beam end, as did I with DD. We didnt have a fucking choice.

Ours used to be café sounds (clattering plates and cutlery, loud talking, etc.) via an app and DC would always nod off. Now it's Audible, god bless Lauren Laverne and her reading of Everywhere Bear, she really deserves an MBE! It even works on me

Mine is 7. I only discovered the cbeebies radio when she was about 6 (which has the BBC calming sounds on) now she goes to sleep with it on most nights! It's a shame I didn't know about it sooner!