Share your top child and adult sleep tips with BleepBleeps – £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[EmmaMumsnet]

Whether you have babies or tweens, getting a good night’s sleep isn’t always easy. In fact, bed-time can be a long and tiresome task. There’s getting your DCs to sleep in the first place – often taking hours – and then there’s waking up in the night and early mornings. BleepBleeps wants to know what your top tips are for making this process easier. Have you mastered a bed-time routine which means you and your DC both get a great night’s sleep?

Here’s what BleepBleeps has to say: “BleepBleeps has made, and is still creating, neat little gadgets which make parenting easier, including your night-time routine. We offer a range of devices which make it possible for you to keep an eye on your DCs from your smartphones so you have peace of mind whilst they’re sleeping.”

Do you have a bedtime strategy in place such as co-sleeping or controlled crying? Do you use devices like nightlights and baby monitors? Or other products that help your child fall asleep and/or keep them in bed till the morning?

Whatever your tips and tricks are, add your comments below and you’ll be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

Standard T&Cs apply

The bulb blew on my nightlight the other day - baby slept through the night for the first time ever. Didn't replace it and we now have done a week sleeping through. I think he was was getting confused by the light and thinking it was day.

White noise saved my life!

Black out blinds, routine, and not putting them to bed before they are tired.

As much as I love and crave a lie in I have to stick to a relatively similar routine or I'll never get to sleep at night!

Music, mindfulness, no screens too close to bedtime...

Lavender spray works every time for both of us.

We put stories on an iPod which help my DDs have something to listen to while they drift off to sleep and also helps them to be less scared.

Buy a motorised swing. Works every time. At 4am you'll thank me.

Breastfeeding to sleep. Cuddling to sleep. Hand-holding to sleep. Co-sleeping however long they want to, until they voluntarily move in to their own beds. A simple, unchanging bedtime routine day in, day out. Early bedtime.

We used to get really stressed out about our 2 year old not sleeping through. We co slept until he was 2.5 and now he has his own single bed. One night he suddenly started sleeping through although we didn't change anything else so he was just ready. If he wakes up in the night he gets his water to drink himself and then goes back to sleep. It is something we never thought would ever happen! We are starting to feel less zombie like now but have a baby due at the end of August so know that it is only for a short time.

I've nuerolinguistically reprogrammed the neighbour's child's brain, to teach it to sleep at regular hours and I'm thinking of patenting my device - It really works :) (you MUST persevere though)

www.youtube.com/video_copynotice?v=I5O15OSkxBk

Being the mum of twins this was always difficult for me as my boys shared one bedroom. I took out the TVs as they'd stay up all night watching and i invested in blackout blinds. The hardest part was getting them to stay in their beds so eventually it would be sending one to bed first until they fell asleep and one to bed 20 minutes later. I'd always alternate this to be fair. In my honest opinion it was difficult until i managed to get a house with 3 bedrooms so they had a room each. Everything tended to fall into place then and it became a whole lot easier.

Getting into a set routine as soon as you can

A constant routine works for mine: Bath, PJs, story, comfort blanket and bed. They have always had blackout curtains and a small nightlight which has helped.

Neither of them were great sleepers and DS (4) still gets in my bed in the night!

I'm not sure many would agree with me, but our best sleep aid by far has been our dog. She stays with our 5 year old until he falls asleep and then comes down the stairs to us. Our son is really comforted by her.

I used to make a cassette tape of music from the radio TV films etc and puit it on quietly in the babies or childrens' rooms. It sootherd them off to sleep in no time and was great fro long car journeys and holidays

I've always found music helps for when they're going to sleep (and when they're asleep) - it drowns out any other noises that are going on too!

Don't use any gadgets for at least one hour before bed-time. They prevent deep sleep

Congratulations to Charbru123 whose name was pulled out of the hat to win the £300 Love2Shop voucher!

Routine is absolutely key - I know everyone says it but it's true. I think that goes for both children and adults too - I know I sleep a lot better when I stick to my night time routine. I find everyone in the house sleeps better when we're more prepared for the next day as well. If I've been organised the night before and got everything ready for the morning, I feel so much more relaxed and I think that rubs off onto everybody else :)

A soothing bath and a few drops of lavender oil in the bedroom

Exercise and then wind down time.

We always make sure our DS has a lukewarm bath and supper before bed. We then use a little misting of sleep spray on his bedding which is a lovely lavender fragrance :)

routine is key!!!!