After seeing so many reviews on babies and sleep, I felt I finally had to add one myself, in large part because our sleeping arrangements were very different from the norm. Co- sleeping is not recommended in the UK, because it has been linked to cot death, or SIDS, as you are now meant to call it, the manufacturers of baby cots not liking a fatal syndrome named after their product. I have to admit, I was paranoid of cot death. I had a hard time relaxing as a parent at first after so many losses - so why would I choose a sleeping method linked to infant death? Quite frankly, because I did quite a lot of research, and while co sleeping in the UK ...  Read the complete review

Having a baby is a momentous occasion, full of wonder, joy and those sleepless nights. Before having a baby we thought nothing of spending our nights partying, getting in during the small wee hours, falling asleep in our clothes then getting up a couple of hours later to get ready for work, while our parents had sat up waiting for us to get home.. But when our little bundles of joy make an appearance all of a sudden, we find surviving on a couple of hours sleep a night steadily becomes more and more difficult, until we feel like zombies. I'd love to say that everything will work out in the end, that every baby will eventually sleep through the night, and there will be a .  Read the complete review

I have always been a girl who has loved her sleep! No-one could wake me up and if they did I would be very grumpy! After having our daughter in October, the first night for me was the hardest. I was numbed waist down and couldn't move to help my little one, but the midwives sorted her for me. As I watched the midwife cradle my daughter and feed her until she slept, I wondered: How does she do it?? She had no children herself but was always smiling at 3AM as she came to help me and my daughter. The first night I was awake ALL night. I finally fell asleep at 8AM, 6 hours after birth. I just didn't want to sleep and miss anything that my daughter did. For 8 ...  Read the complete review

5 months ago I gave birth to mine and my husbands first child- we had a baby girl, Olivia. I was 21 when I had my daughter and I have always been someone who needs her sleep, so I must say the only part of becomming a mummy which I dreaded was the sleepless nights. I have seen my sister go through 9 years of her son and two daughters messing her around, not going to bed until gone 11pm, not sleeping in their own beds and demanding to sleep in with their mum- and I was determined I wasn't going to have tantrums at bedtime every night. I am a very old fashioned mum, I don't believe that children should rule the roost, I don't believe in spoiled children who get ...  Read the complete review

Sleep what is that again? I honestly cannot remember the last decent nights sleep i had. Im lucky if i get about 6 hours these days. I have 2 perfect children who seem to turn into little monsters at bed time. My four year old is still a regular visitor to mummy and daddys bed along with rabbit, who is a giant pink fluffy teddy and her one year old sister. Most nights its mummy, daddy a big fluffy rabbit and two extreamly fidgety little girls all in one, far too small bed! On a good night both girls will be tucked up in bed by 7.30 and i'll be sat on the sofa with a nice cup of tea ready to watch the soaps. But my peace is quickly shattered after 14 trips downstairs to ..  Read the complete review