Does anyone know of any natural remedies that promote good sleep

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I have tried pretty much everything else and am at my wits end with my 2 year old. Typical night is bed at 7, she then sleeps until about midnight and is up and down for about 2-3 hours. It is as if she cannot sustain deep sleep and just dozes waking frequently. She then wakes at 5am (this is the same regardless of bedtime and we have white noise, blackout blinds, sleeping bunny clock). I could handle the early mornings if she slept through but it is a combination of night wakings and early mornings that is making me, in my own words shouted at DH this morning "demented with tiredness" I think she has slept through about 10 times in her life.

If something doesn't change DH has threatened to put a gate on her door and deliver "tough love" but I am just not up to it so thought I would see if anyone has any success with natural remedies.

anyone?

Gin and tonic? Seriously though - I have just bought the no cry sleep solution - I think there is a chapter on toddlers too

exercise her like a labrador.

I love that sheherazade! Now the weather has perked up I think that is a good plan actually.

Just bought that book for toddlers easternblocmonkey. It came this morning funnily enough. I think the issue is I just don't know which problem to start on first.

I tried some herbal sleep drops called "Night Herbs drops". I got them from my local natural health care shop. These helped for a while, though I think my son became immune to them after a while. Nothing else worked except for a well timed dose of Medised (which the doctor actually suggested). He finally started sleeping through when he was 3 1/2 and I was almost delirious from tiredness. It wasn't anything that I had done that made him start to sleep well, it just seemed to "click". Strangely enough, he is the only one now in the family who could sleep on a washing line!
Good luck - I've been there!

You could try Passiflora - I got some on the advice of a friend. It comes in a tincture which you can add to drinks, and it's suitable from age 2 (according to the brand I bought - Vogel, from a local pharmacy; have seen the same brand in places like Holland & Barrett).

It's meant to help them go into a deeper, more restful sleep, which we needed because DS1 was often up several times a night, albeit not for very long each time.

Now the bad news... I can't say it made much, if any difference to DS1. But obviously the friend who recommended it swore by it, so I thought I'd pass it on - worth a try? Luckily DS1 has improved a lot recently (he is 2.4) although still more likely to have us up in the night than DS2 (3 months) - but that may be because we have been doing Sheherazade's trick

Good luck, hope it helps if you try it!