Snoring - help me please!

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I know this is a bit off topic, but I need some advice. My 6 month old is now sleeping through from 7pm to about 5am on a good night. Absolutely heavenly after 6 months of very little sleep. The problem I am now facing is my partner's snoring. For years I've worn ear plugs to drown out the snoring. I can't do that now as I need to be able to hear the monitor. Has anyone got any tips whatsoever on how to stop someone snoring. He's lost weight but it's not helped. I'm so so so so tired and very near to punching him in the head if this goes on much longer! It keeps ending up with one of us on the sofa, which is just not a long term solution. Any ideas Mumsnetters?

I feel your pain. To be honest, I still use earplugs. The wax ones that block out all but sirens, earthquakes and explosions. I find I still wake up every time our baby wakes up even with them in.

You could try sewing a couple of tennis balls into the back of his pyjamas so he can't roll onto his back. Or asking him to stop drinking alcohol if he does - I find my DH snores much more when he's had even a couple of beers.

"sewing a couple of tennis balls into the back of his pyjamas"

Seriously, there are people who do this?

How loud do your partners snore?

I haven't done it myself- but I so would if I thought it would work and if my OH wore pjyamas. Mine snores so loud that he wakes me up over and over and over again. Really, really loud.

snoreze works (a spray that you can get from boots). sometimes anyway.

CoteDAzur: very, very loud.

I can totally relate to you. We have been together 11 years and he has snored ever since being together. He apparently was snoring as a child. He is so loud that no matter what room you are in you hear him. It doesn't matter if he is on his back, front or side, or whether he has or has not had a drink. We have probably spent nearly half of those 11 years in different beds. Unfortunately since our DS arrived nearly 4 years ago the option of another bed went out the window and I know have a very comfortable sofa that I go to. It is at its worst at the moment as my DD is 7 weeks and as I am feeding her in the middle of the night and I am seriously having to grit my teeth and stop myself from placing the pillow over his head. It is a standing joke with all friends and family how bad he is and everyone knows that we cant go anywhere where this is not an option of me getting up and going somewhere else to sleep! I laugh but times I want to beat the crap out of him lol!

Oh and we have tried everything out there with him including a £70 gum thingy that was completely useless. Took an hour to fit it to his mouth after faffing about putting in boiling water then moulding it to his mouth. Halfway through the first night it was in the middle of the bed cos it had fallen out!

You must really love these men.

I wouldn't have married a guy who snored that loudly.

Actually, there was this one guy. We were subtly flirting. Then we slept under the same roof after a birthday and I heard his snoring rock the entire house. End of said flirting.