Helping your baby sleep

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If any one (and who doesn't) has problems getting your baby to let go and sleep try this.

Gently place your thumb on your baby?s right temple, your middle finger on the left temple and your index finger at the hair line in the middle of the forehead. Then gently bring your fingers together with a gentle pressure to the gap between he eyebrows and gently run them down the nose. That?s the right hand, reverse if you are left handed.

My husband did this on our babies and it's like turning down a volume switch, their eyes would gently close and they were asleep.

Try it on your own forehead (thumb to right temple on yourself) and you can feel all the tension in your forehead melt.

That's a bit too close to using one of those forehead thermometers. My DS would immediately bat my hands away, move his head, put his arms round his head and then yell at me. He's 2.

Perhaps you'ld like to borrow him occasionally to prove your technique! I could have an evening to myself.

I started this when they were much younger so they were used to it. In fact when they were both toddlers they used to come and ask both me and their daddy to "do the hand thing" because it really feels nice, try it on yourself.