Real-talk - getting your baby to sleep when they should be sleeping sometimes feels like an impossible task.
One where the parents often seem to come off worse too, unfortunately.
You’re desperate for your baby to go to sleep before they wake you up in the middle of the night. You haven’t had a good night’s sleep since your baby was born, and you’re really starting to suffer for it.
So much is written about the alleged dos and don’ts of settling your little cherub down, and it can be really tough to find an achievable method which works well for you and your baby.
So, if you’ve been driven out of desperation to try literally anything, you may want to take a leaf out of this mum’s book.
In a video, originally uploaded to Facebook by French magazine Pour Nous Femmes, a mum adopted a rather sweet way of getting her baby to sleep.
The hypnotic method really does work, and the tot is fast asleep in under a minute - magic!
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It’s simple - using a baby massage, the mum strokes the baby’s head in circular motions.
At first, the baby seems to resist his mother’s efforts to coax him to sleep, but his eyelids soon begin to droop - much to the relief of the adults in the room.
If you're really pressed for time, another clever parent has got it down to fine art in just ten seconds.
Other parents have been taking to social media to share their tips to get their baby to sleep quickly.
One wrote: “My wife and I put our 3 month old baby boy, Seth, to sleep in under a minute using nothing but a piece of tissue paper.”
The tissue paper trick involves putting a clean piece of tissue paper up and down the face of the baby until they’re fast asleep.
According to another dad, it’s as simple as rubbing a baby’s eyebrows - count us in!
Apparently, if you gently rub the baby's eyebrows, this will send the baby into a very deep slumber. That sounds like another quick win to us.
Other parents recommend things like any light, repetitive movement, like swaying or swinging, or even playing soft music or tranquil sounds from a white noise machine or app.
They all sound like ideas we’re more than happy to try! Anything for an extra hour or so of sleep to be honest…
