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As part of our new partnership with Fairy Non Bio, we’ve produced our first ever Mumsnet Babies Podcast. There are ten episodes in the series and so far we’ve released five. Episode two is about sleep, and you can listen to it here . Fairy Non Bio would like you to listen to the podcast whenever you can, and then discuss your experiences of sleep with a baby.

An unbroken night of slumber is the holy grail of parenthood - but it’s often difficult to actually achieve. Fairy Non Bio would like to hear about your experience of sleep with a new baby. Did your baby miraculously sleep through from 3 months? Or was your experience much more of a struggle? Do you have expert tips on getting your child to sleep for that precious extra half an hour, or perhaps on how to cope through bleary-eyed days when you feel like you didn’t sleep at all?

Whatever your experience, share it with Fairy Non Bio by posting on the thread below.

Everyone who posts on the thread will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

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I know a lot of people disagree with co sleeping, we did a lot of research and converted our cot into a cosleeper and it made things so much easier. Don't get me wrong the long night feeds and broken sleep were still hard but it was manageable. If youre in a relationship it's worth getting your partner to help out too and take turns getting up

Ari would sleep in her baby bouncer but not her cot. The soothing sounds really help. We had to move to putting her in the bouncer in the cot, and then having it beside the cot playing the sounds. We got there thoguh.

I was really lucky with my first son, he was sleeping for a good stretch of the night very quickly. He could sleep beside a brass band now!

I have been very lucky with mine as they have all slept really well. I fed them all evening and then put them to bed when I went to bed so we slept at the same time. They were mostly big babies too which probably helped them last through the night. They started off needing one feed after 4-5 hrs, but it soon stretched out 5-6 hours, then 7-8 hours. I can function on 4-5hrs sleep so I felt OK. I had all my babies in a moses basket next to my bed so I could keep an eye on them and check that they were safe. Once they outgrew the basket or learned to roll over, they went into the cot on the other side of our bed. I keep the babies with us as long as possible and our 2 year old is in the cot next to us at the moment.

our Daughter didn't sleep for more than 30mins at a time all night for the first 11weeks. In the end we gave up going to bed and stayed up just drifting in between in the armchair. Fortunately from 12 weeks onwards it completely changed and she slept through all night every night, in fact we had to wake her up in the mornings!

Our first was a dream, slept through the night from just a few weeks and was cheery and content in between.
Our 2nd screamed constantly, slept for 30 minutes at a time, night and day and seemed permanently clamped to my chest.
Funnily enough she was also our last. If we'd had her first she may well have been an only one!

I have 7 children and have been very fortunate that they have all been fairly good sleepers, the eldest was probably the hardest but I think that was because I was very anxious about doing the right things. When mine woke in the night for a feed, I always used to have minimal light just change and feed, whereas during the day there would be play and talking etc not sure if it was that but it seemed to work for me. All babies are different though and I think to many parents feel they are doing something wrong or failing if their baby doesnt sleep through for ages, when they really shouldnt

DD1 was a brilliant sleeper. DD2 taught me why sleep deprivation is used as torture.