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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?

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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?

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A god routine from early on is what has always worked for us. Bath, book, milk and then bed. If he wakes, we have an owl which plays soothing music to help him self settle.
Good daytime naps also help.
Ensuring that they are comfortable, whether it be co sleeping or in their own bed.

Bedtime routine helps, as does being realistic - small kids wake up sometimes. When DD was younger she slept in with us, which was lovely and helped us all get rest.

The thing that helps me get a guaranteed good night's sleep is sending DD to her grandparents for a sleepover!

In the childrens room we have black out curtains. We have a bedtime routine, both children even though different ages, go to bed at the same time. No TV or electronic devices before bed, we have winding down time, bath then read books together. When my 2year old was younger we used the monitors and if she woke up we could speak to her and her to us through there, without her having to get up out of bed. My 2 year old goes to the toilet before bed so she doesn't wake up in the night needing a wee.

Blackout blinds.

I agree with others that a good routine is very important. DD has dinner, bath, story and is then put in the cot. If she wakes up in the night we try not to particularly interact with her, just settle her and put her back in the cot. Whilst setting the routine was not fun, once it clicked it made putting her to bed so much easier.

Both my kids have been pretty easy to put to bed. I do a bath time routine which includes no screen time in the hour leading up to bed. My littlest one likes to be put in his jammies, tucked in and given his dody and he's good to go!
The older one likes a story and a cuddle first. He has the time of making excuses to stay out of bed but is mostly good.

Blackout blinds in the DC's room so it is dark for sleep. We also stick to routine as it works well for us, that means bath, brush teeth, stories, and lights out.

I still use the nice hot bath with a drop of lavender, warm milk, dim lighting and a bedtime story normally does the job, the bath normally wears my little one out!

Typing one handed for my earlier comment. Practically - routine, try to avoid letting the children get over tired /stimulated pre bed.
Consistency - bed time is bed time, money negotiable for hunger/thurst/ but I just want to.... (excluding illness).

Routine is essential. I tidy away all toys before bathtime, then have quiet time (reading and cuddles, no screens) before bed.

The older children stay up longer but the screens rule still applies. So many children are on phones/tablets just before bed, it must affect their sleep quality as I know it effects mine.

For getting them into bed and asleep - a consistent routine that isn't too long.
DD2 (nearly 3) regularly wakes in the night and will settle easily the first time, but after about 4am the only way either of us is getting any more sleep is if she comes in with me. Actually getting sleep is more important than where it is. I just remind myself she'll grow out of it eventually.

Blackout blinds. Bath and story time. Works for our little one.

Sleep begets sleep. Over tiredness always make bedtime worse here! Same applies to me actually - I get grumpy when I'm tired and then find it harder to aleep!

Accept that when it comes to parenting, the years are short but the nights are LONG

Food, food and more food. Ensure you get enough food during the day!

A good story and a dark bedroom

Lavender bath n quiet time after. Don't go back downstairs bathroom to bedroom, pyjamas, story. Love you. Sleep. xxx

Definitely white noise. And bedtime stories :)

Black our curtains and a good routine for children. The gro clocks help too.

Bath...Bottle...Bed each night, be consistent.

A nightcap always helps. Hot milk for kids, a small tot of brandy for me

For us going with whatever gets you the most sleep at that current time ha swirled best. Our 2 kids can't be rushed into anything-we've found they'll do it when they're ready, not when we want them to. Be that moving from our room cosleeping to their own room and cot, stopping night feeds and finally sleeping through, we've founs IT happens when it happens, if we try and force it we just end up stressed and with less sleep. So DS is still cosleeping part of the night-it's gradually getting less and less, but it's what gets us the most aleep at the moment, and minimal crying!

Black out curtains (essential in Finland - land of the midnight bloody sun!) and then just going with whatever works because phases eventually pass. DD was a horrible sleeper as a baby and toddler, I tried many different methods (pick up/put down, co-sleeping, controlled crying, sitting by her bed until she fell asleep) and with her mostly it was best to just let her play in her room (or cot when she was a baby) until she passed out.

As an adult who has suffered with insomnia since childhood - reading in bed is the best thing for me. I usually read for half an hour or so before switching the light off. And no telly in the bedroom (OH would watch it otherwise. He falls asleep watching things on his tablet which drives me mad)

A good bedtime routine is essential from an early age. It will take perseverance but it will pay off. I also introduced the gro clock quite early on. I wasn't regimented with it while they were too small to understand, but I got them used to the idea of the star means sleep from early on.

It depends, doesn't it? My toddler has a routine, but the extent to which she goes to sleep quickly minus messing about depends on how tired she is, whether she has had a nap, whether it is simply too essential to make dinner in our toy kitchen. There's no magic solution - but after lights out we just return her to bed if she is popping up at the gate.