Baby-sleep challenges? Pampers sleep expert Jo Tantum wants to hear yours - chance to win £300 NOW CLOSED

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To celebrate the launch of New Pampers Baby-Dry, Pampers are working with baby sleep expert Jo Tantum - who has 25 years’ experience helping hundreds of families to achieve a peaceful night’s sleep. Jo has identified 5 sleep typologies that may help you to understand your baby’s sleep habits and needs better and we’ve been asked by Pampers to find out which sleep typology best represents your little one? Take a read and post on the thread below to be in with a chance of winning a £300 John Lewis voucher!

Here’s what Pampers has to say about their new launch: "If your little one loves to keep you awake, then you’re certainly not alone! But, having a good night’s sleep is crucial for babies; it’s when important brain development occurs and they process everything they have learnt during the day. With experts believing that wetness may impact your little one’s sleep, their overnight nappy needs to work as hard as possible; introducing New Pampers Baby-Dry, which 83% of Mumsnet parent testers said they would recommend as part of a recent trial! New Pampers Baby-Dry feature a revolutionary nappy design with 3 Absorbing Channels that distribute wetness more evenly for less wet bulk in the morning!"

To launch the New Pampers Baby-Dry nappy, Pampers are working with Jo - and want you to be involved. So, is your little one a Starfish, Skylark, Sloth, Owl or Meerkat sleeper? Take a look and let us know - and if your DC doesn’t seem to fit one of these categories, choose your own animal and post it below telling us why!

Starfish: Sleeps in the same position, on their back with legs out. Uses you as a sleep prop, for example sleep-rocking or feeding, then they don’t move. Wakes often and regularly, but does go back to sleep easily after intervention. You would rather they slept through!
Skylark: Awake early in the morning, singing and shouting and refuses to go back to sleep whatever you try!
Sloth: Loves to sleep and can sleep anywhere and everywhere. A great sleeper, day and night – lucky you! But what happens when they wake up? Well you know it’s going to be for a growth or developmental spurt or they are teething or not well.
Owl: Goes to bed late and wakes in the night. Is wide awake for long periods and can’t get back to sleep!
Meerkat: Stands up, moves around trying to get comfortable all night, doesn’t want to sleep; always on high alert. Late to bed, early to rise.

What sleep typology best represents your little one, or ones? Share your baby sleep stories – whether restful or restless, Pampers would love to hear about it! Everyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one Mumsnetter will win a £300 John Lewis voucher.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

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Two skylarks here although they both wake frequently in the night too. One wakes with a big beamy smile. The other has quite a night time temper. So less skylark more angry badger.

I had a starfish. Typologies are just generalisations however so a best for as such.

hubble could it be an allergy- I ask as by baby has cmpa and soya allergy and since identifying and removing from diet we get 3-4 hour stretches at 10mo... It was every 30 min at one point...

I have an owl/eagle/gnat
Sometimes sleeps sometimes not, scared to mias something and fights all sleep opportunities

What makes someone a "sleep expert" I wonder?

Oh, my baby is now 4, and sleeps like a human, if that counts as a type of animal?

Mine is an owl so far but it's still early days and everything is just a phase apparently.
Please give me £300 to buy matchsticks to wedge my eyes open with... Zzzzzzzz

DS is a starfish who wakes many times in the night but sleeps on his side not on his back as otherwise reflux jolts him awake.

Mine is a starfish with a bit of skylark thrown in just for fun. He's six months and if I have one more of my friends tell me how their's sleeps through 7:30 to 7:30 I may just cry. DS is easily waking 4 times a night then up at 5:30.

newballs tried it... Removed soy, gluten, dairy etc from both our diets for six weeks. No increase in sleep, he just lost a load of weight.

I have a skylark and an owl.
The skylark wakes early regardless of what time he goes to bed.
The owl has been an owl from day one, she needed a lot of settling in the early days though and she didn't sleep a whole night until she was two!

Hubble my Dc2 was like that, took 2 hours of over tired screaming to get him to sleep then he'd wake 20-40 minutes later. And repeat. And repeat...
I actually don't know how I survived. If it makes you feel better he did gradually get better from about 1, and slept 8-4 aged 2. Aged 8 he sleeps 9-5.30, (sometimes gets up for a wee in the night) still an early riser but he has to stay in his room reading til 7 so doesn't disturb me anymore.

She's a starfish.. Always sleeps in the same two poses, takes bloody ages to go to sleep, but once she's actually asleep she will usually stay that way for a good while.

Mine doesn't fit into any of these. Since 6 months she has slept through but starts off meerkating for a bit. She definitely can't sleep anywhere at anytime though. Could there be another animal that sleeps through, gently stirring ever now and again to change position?

Definitely Sloth - used to only nap for 30mins at a time during the day, but now has two longer naps, though is resistant to naps at times! She has always slept well at night and was sleeping for long stretches (9pm to 5am initially) from about four months.

She now sleeps from 8pm to 6.30am or 7am. It's nothing we have done, just the way she is, and I know we're very lucky.

I guess youngest would be skylark now but not always. Sleep does vary depending on age, food, development, weather etc. Same way I don't sleep the same every night.

Starfish or Meerkat here. She's not impossible to get to sleep but would rather sleep on me than on a plain old mattress. We do have days where she's just not tired, won't sleep and then gets up early though.

I had a sloth until a week ago and was very grateful for it. Now have a meerkat and wishing we could go back a week. Really didn't appreciate how lucky I was

Hmmm...DS is starfish crossed with meerkat and a hint of hedgehog I think - usually wakes often during the night, although goes back to sleep fairly easily, moves around a lot in the night to get comfy, and ends up curled up in a little ball on his front most of the time. But that's just this week - it's changing all the time.

DC1 - most like a sloth. Generally goes down at 7.30pm; sleeps through until about 6am. Doesn't often nap during the day anymore though.

DC2 - probably most like a starfish with a little bit of skylark (is noisy in the morning!). Needs some help getting to sleep but is getting better!

Starfish with occasional meerkat.

She does like a clean nappy at 2am too and is now old enough to ask for one.

We have a slylark although not too early.Only recently have we progressed from a meerkat though!

Skylark, Owl, Meercat. At three, he really ought to sleep better. His sleep patterns changes all the time, but he has never been a sloth.

I've got a meerkat. I am also a meerkat so not a lot of sleeping gets done round here!

A sloth here! Sleeps 7-7, and 2 or 3 naps during the day too! We are very lucky! I know with our second child we are bound to have the complete opposite!!