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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I have 2 skylarks. And a husband that works away. I could weep. Sometimes I do 😴😴😱

We have a little Skylark. She sleeps all night now but can have very early (4.30am!!!) starts. Good job she's amazing and cute

Absolutely have a 9 month old meerkat stands up cruises around her cot and refuses to lie down loves to wiggle about and not much sleep had in this house

I'm not sure my baby fits into any of those. I can't get her to sleep any other way than on the boob and then in the day as soon as I put her down she wakes up and will not go back to sleep so she cat naps. At night she wakes very frequently and is standing up shouting for me. She sleeps best on her front though.

Sloth. I like to think it's a practice run for the teenage years.

My little boy would be a baby bird, a little chick

Quite content, settles well but wakes lots squawking for food

My son has only just started sleeping at the age of 11 and half months old
He has been in and out of hospital had cameras put down his throat down his nose had X-rays not slept for days on days
So my new routine is now I go to bed at midnight and wake up at 2:30 and clean clean clean

Starfish is the closest for me, but this doesn't seem to fully describe it. Our little guy loves a 90degree turn in the night during his sleeps

DD1 was a sloth (like me), DD2 is still most definitely a meerkat, or a sleep-defier as she's affectionately known in our house.

My 3 year old is a sloth. Still has naps in the day although are getting shorter but sleeps through the night (unless he wets the bed !) and is horrible if you wake him early. Luckily he has slept well from an early age but in the day he literally never stops for a second then just crashes out at night.

DS1 and DD were both Owls and DS2 was a Meerkat. I am quite glad that none of them are early risers as I'm definitely a night owl myself. DS2's early rising was a bit of a nightmare, but I liked the fact that none of them liked going to bed early, as we like to spend family time together until quite late in the evening.

Skylark. 5am every morning, refuses to go back to sleep despite my desperate attempts until I take him downstairs where he immediately falls asleep in his bouncer
He's only little though

Definitely a Skylark! So cute that it almost makes up for the ungodly hour that she wakes. Almost.

My DD is now a sloth but only for the last year, she was very gassy so that used to keep her up at night. She definitely started sleeping better once we used pampers baby dry as well.

My two weeks old DS is currently a starfish, long may he continue. It can all change so quickly though! Still I have my spaced soothing techniques in my back pocket from last time around if it all goes pear shaped.

Hedgehog - curls up into a ball on his front.
Will sleep through a wet nappy and wake up soaking wet :(

A starfish this time- firstborn is a skylark. The combination is quite tiring; awake frequently through the night and then up at the crack of dawn for the day. Love parenthood

Both my babies have been sloths. My husband is too! Our 6 month old sleeps on her front (and slept through as soon as we realised this), and she sleeps from 7 till 7 pretty much without question. But our 3 year old can sleep for 14 hours a night easily..

Having said that, my other half loves his sleep.. So the girls take after him!
Our older daughter has fallen out of bed and not waken before!!

DS1 is a starfish, owl and meercat all rolled into one so doesn't really sleep much! DS2 I'd say is a starfish. I've learnt to just go with the flow, it's not about trying to train them or label them, just have realistic expectations of them and enjoy the nightime cuddles whilst they are little

Mine were both starfish. DS is slowly weaning himself off me as a sleep prop and now just wakes up very briefly to pat my face every so often. He sleeps exactly as described in the middle of our bed
Quite like that they are starfish

There should be more than 5 categories - but my DC3 is more like a cross between a starfish (in that I help him to get to sleep by breastfeeding him) and a skylark with his early chirping every morning. Once he's in his cot - he moves around a lot, is generally a good sleeper bar the irritability with teething. His daytime naps aren't as set in stone as his elder siblings were (timing or length wise), but then he slept well early on.

One total starfish and one total meercat here. In fact we call my 6 month old a meercat anyway because in the morning the first thing we see is her little head popping up. Actually not just morning, evening on the monitor, and night....

I have a skylark and an owl. Am haggard.

I would say meerkat but he's HEAVY! He's more like a sort of hyperactive rhinocerous.

My 2 year old is normally a Sloth!
Sleeps 9:30-9:30/10 on a normal day, happy to take a 2+ hour nap in the afternoon too.
I dread when I hear her cry in the middle of the night - it's either a cold or teething, or the end of the world doesn't really matter, she makes all these events sound just as dramatic.
Currently it's separation anxiety and she's driving us all mad!
Hope to get my little sloth back sooner rather than later, tired isn't the word zzzzzz