is anyone going to watch the sleep "experts" programme on C4 tonight?

[choufleur]

I'm getting ready to write a letter complaining about it before I've even seen it. Apparently it helps people whose babies don't sleep through at night

i would but i'm in the cuddle to sleep camp and don't think i can bear to watch children being left to cry

I'm crossing my fingers hoping for some real help, but I'm expecting CIO v's CC

Do you think they might start with a tip on how to get your LO to sleep though the programme, so you can actually watch it, other than 'just let them cry'?

Is it about small babies though, or young children with specific problems? My synopsis on Sky+ makes it sound like the latter.

I just hope they have better "experts" than that awful programme they did a few years ago about different child rearing methods.

no but i know how draining it is to have a child that won't sleep, ds(16) was a nightmare and i might have tried cc if i knew it existed at the time! may have saved a few years angst

So do I - Ds didn't sleep through til 2 1/2 and then would wake stupidly early. It's a myth that all children sleep 7-7 at a very early age.

choufleur are you me?

I read in some paper that Chireal Shallow is one of the experts. She actually helped me do some really gentle sleep training with DS1 over 3 years ago and was really sympathetic, gentle and sensible - am hoping she comes across like that on screen too.

Also read that the other expert is Alison Scott-Wright (or Wright-Scott?). Should be interesting...

not ASW. She is quite hard core. Watering down feeds.

sat down now and ready to watch but thing it will be a cc v. cio fest.

6 of the most sleep deprived families... 'kin hell that is likely to upset a few on here...

am watching...

I'm watching after DP has had to take over bed time for the umpteenth night in a row after DS bit me again

I'm not going to watch, but I hope that one of the main points is that babies aren't supposed to sleep through the night. I understand the torture of having toddlers who don't sleep, must be an absolute night mare. But little babies do wake up and often need feeding or comforting.

DD has just been rude to the woman with the straggly hair. She is very cross and says "children are not puppies".

I just find it shocking that they charge £600 a day.

this aint even about helping these families otherwise they would help them all
its just two experts looking for a ego boost!!

Oh Feck, don't even get me started.

Think DH must have seen it in the tv planner because he voluteered to drive to Bristol and back today with work.

children are like puppies i hate her already

Watching - not sure why.

ds (severe ASD) doesn't sleep. We have had expert disability nurses, plans and programmes and now melatonin, a natural sedative, but nothing can change the fact that ds does not need much sleep.

I want to know if they have black out blinds...that is key.

agree bumperlicious - I find one thing not to sleep for more than an hour but once I let go of expectation that kids would do what they said within the books it was a lot easier.

and I already know chireal approach more my thing - but isnt that the way with almost any of these baby/children methods ?

20 months old and doesn't sleep?

Try fecking 7.5 years and I can count on one hand how many full nights sleep ds has had.

This programme is NOT what I thought it would be.I thought it was going to be proper medical experts from sleep clinics

Alison does not look like she has enough sleep herself...check out the bags under her eyes...