If your child can’t sleep, play a video of a yoga tutorial with relaxing music.
Baby: ‘Namaste up ALL night!’
Me: ‘Ommmmmm no you won’t!’

James Taylor’s You’ve Got A Friend. I played it throughout my pregnancy and it now works a treat

i know its bad but when all else fails i tend to take bub to bed with me and it seems to work

If all else fails, I lie down with my face close to bub’s and maintain eye contact with him. Then I start doing slow blinks. When baby starts to copy, my blinks become slower and longer (as do his) until I’m left with a blissfully dozing baby. It’s pure magic!

I have a challenging sleeper (again!) but funnily enough, he will often go to sleep being walked while I rap the “Baby Got Back” chorus. Thanks, Friends.

my bub loves his back stroked so the only way I can get him to sleep is just to continuously stroke his back haha also making sure he has a full tummy helps too!

Singing lullabies has worked for all my children and even if they don’t fall asleep immediately, they are relaxed and so am I which makes all the difference – of course it’s not foolproof but keeping your voice gentle it seems to work in a hypnotic type of way!

My one special go-to trick is to play the piano or guitar. My five children were lucky enough to have a pianist for a mum and a classical guitarist for a dad and we always played our five children to sleep. We now do the same with our growing merry band of grandchildren. Beautiful music soothes the soul and sends them off to a sleep filled with magical dreams.

A nice warm bath and milk before bed.

My singing can put anyone to sleep.

Rocking, whether in your arms, in the pram, in the car or in a cradle, bubs love movement.

Driving in the car

I think we have a magical mobile – in desperate times we’ve found if we set the mobile to run for two sequences our boy drops off to sleep. Not sure if it’s the music or the floating animals, or simply boredom. But so far so good!

I love to read stories even though Bub may not understand the sound of my voice is calming before bedtime

Peaceful beautiful music