Sharing a very helpful post on sleep and Christmas, from The Sleep Nanny, Lucy Shrimpton. As a family that has had our fair share of sleep issues, we are always happy to hear good advice and sleep tips. While Christmas this year is set to be very different, one thing that will remain the same […]
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Sleep tools and tricks we use for our non-sleeper
*Some of the products in this blog were sent for us to review but they are part of our sleep tools and tricks arsenal and work well so we recommend them* This blog post sharing Sleep tools and tricks we use for our non-sleeper. This is not an exhaustive post and it’s also not a […]
READ MOREOvernight recharging with Benenox…
If you read my blog, you will know that sleep has been somewhat lacking, round here for a LONG time, and we have had a long journey to where we are today, and right now, we are all getting some sleep, and good sleep. However, lack of sleep and being a busy working mum, managing […]
READ MOREThe blog post where I admit that bedtime is awful…
In fact, bedtime round here, could be regarded as a major parenting fail… Before I had children, I swore that any children I had, would go to sleep by themselves and be good sleepers. After all, as a nanny, then pediatric nurse, I knew the hard time that parents who “pandered” to their kids and […]
READ MORESharing a bed with your pet….
We all know how tough it can be to get a decent night’s sleep. What with the stresses of work, money worries and running a household, it can be hard to find the time and the peace of mind to achieve adequate rest. And as many of us share our homes with a furry friend, […]
READ MORENot sleeping well? It might be your mattress?
*we were very kindly sent a Dormeo mattress to try out. All words and opinions are my own* I’ve written many posts on sleep, on this blog, as you will know, if you are a regular reader here. Sleep and getting what we term a reasonable amount of it, has been an ongoing issue for […]
READ MOREA rookie parenting mistake…?
This is the blog post, where I confess that I have made a parenting oops, and what some would see as a rookie parenting mistake and talk about children and sleep. You know you have missed my posts about sleep…. I guess it depends on your point of view and how you parent your children, […]
READ MORESo, sleep? We are actually getting some!
Yes, you read it right. I posted on our Facebook page, last week, that we had had a breakthrough, and were cautiously optimistic that more sleep was coming our way, and it seems to be a regular thing now. Small Boy, of his own accord, like he seems to do with everything else, decided that […]
READ MOREGlue ear diagnosis.
(Image sourced from an ENT website, with permission) So, if you have been following me here, Facebook or Twitter, you will know we have had some major ongoing sleep issues with our boy. We suspected he was suffering from recurrent ear infections, with very few actual symptoms, and we have been working our way to […]
READ MOREThe blog post where I talk about sleep, AGAIN!
Unrelated but annoyed looking cat. Sums up how we feel about sleep… Oh look, she’s blogging about sleep, or lack of it, again, I hear you mutter. Yes, I am going to talk about sleep, and probably sound a bit whiney, but this is more of an update post, than anything else. We recently discovered that […]
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