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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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for children, a bedtime routine, bath, teeth book and bed. it works a treat if you stick to it

for adults, a nice hot bubble bath and then a little read is my tip. and dont go to bed overtired.

If your partner is a noisy sleeper, create a noise maker using "white noise" - ours is the flight noise inside an unoccupied Airbus lavatory. Works every time!

No screen time for at least an hour before bed(this works for me too!). We read books or do a jigsaw and have a drink ( warm milk or cocoa). Seems to help us all unwind.

go to bed when your children do

Routine ie bath, bed, story, sleep and black out blinds

When my now 12 year old was a baby I used controlled crying for just two nights and it really worked. For years she would sleep absolutely anywhere - even when she was 4 and we stayed in a cottage on the Isle of Skye and the wind was howling at the windows!

She started to sleep badly just before starting High school so I went back to basics with a good routine. Devices are taken away from her and put into my room at 7.30pm. She has a bath, she has a cup of hot milk and I have started to read to her - books that I enjoyed at her age!

Even as an adult I still use the same tips as I used with my children when they were young.

Proper wind down routine at the same time every day whether that be just telly off or an actual bath or relaxation session, making sure the mattresses were firm enough to ensure a good nights sleep and adequate ventilation and /or heat depending on the season so you don't get too hot or cold

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Also in these tech times it's very important not to be staring at blue light from a PC or mobile screen too late as it interferes with sleep cycles x

For both my girls and I nothing beats a lovely bubble bath and a good book to help us get a good nights sleep.

Blackout Blinds and a good routine including naps and bedtime

When baby is very young, snatch your own sleep whenever you can.

A short non frightening bedtime story, no sweets late in the evening, black out blinds and a tech free bedroom are the ingredients for a non disrupted night sleep.

Lovely warm bubble bath, lavender pillow spray and white noise works for everyone in our family.

Make sure you don't drink tea or coffee after you come home from work and do not eat dinner too late

for little ones always stick to a routine, bath, story and lights out at the same time.

for me, I have the radio on a speech radio station at night, I can drift off or if I can't sleep I have something to listen too.

Lavender for both children and adults added to the bath water before bed, it works a treat!

Blackout blinds are great for adults as well as children!

My eldest has always had trouble sleeping and we co-slept for the first couple of years of his life. Once he got a little older audio books and bedtime music seemed to work really well - they allow him to relax gradually while still having something to focus on. He is 8 now, and enjoys reading a book before bed, but will still ask for an audio book on if he is having trouble drifting off.

Be consistent! Nice relaxing bedtime story as a family, keep bedtimes the same time...keep their room calm and tidy! Tire them out!!

My kids have always had a really good routine, dinner, bath, story and bed. It must work as the oldest was sleeping through 12 hrs from 3 mths and my youngest was even better, she was 3 days shy of 2 mths, I think it was an early birthday present to me as I was 33 3 days later. I never breastfed them to sleep if I could help it and from a young age they learnt to fall asleep on their own. It could also be because my husband and I are great sleepers and love a good lie in.

I just held my babies to get to sleep and when they were ready let them sleep in their bed, I used to sit with my first born for 5 mins while he dropped off, but my second one was really happy to go to sleep in the same room as his big brother. For me it just felt like the most natural thing to do.

consistency consistency and more consistency

This has been a long & uphill battle for us, but there is light at the end of the tunnel!! Threads like this really helped during the sleepless nights to give us some hope!
What worked for us;

• A consistent bedtime routine - an oldie, but a goodie.
• A relaxing bath before bed - the lavender scented baby products really do help.
• A quiet book before bed - try to avoid getting in if you can, I find it's then really hard to leave!
• Invest in a blackout blind & a gentle nightlight. Soft classical music or a lullaby CD are good options too.
• A quick kiss & snuggle with reassurance you're there if needed.
• In the early stages of initiating the routine (after 6 months) controlled crying, although agonisingly hard, really does work.
• Perseverance!!! x x x

consistency and patience

blankets and toys every time