JOHNSON’S® Tonight We Sleep™ Challenge Results.

About two weeks ago I wrote about how we would be trying the JOHNSON’S® Tonight We Sleep™ Challenge to see whether we can improve bedtimes in our house.

For a while now Jelly Bean has not been settling to sleep that well, waking a few times before finding a content, deep sleep which has had a knock on effect on the bedtime routine and one-to-one time with Bug.

In the hope of making bedtimes blissful once again I jumped at the chance of taking part in the JOHNSON’S® Tonight We Sleep™ Challenge where we would follow the clinically proven JOHNSON’S® 3-step bedtime routine*.

JOHNSON’S® Tonight We Sleep™ Challenge - 3 Step Bedtime Routine.

The preciousness of sleep was not something we truly understood until we became parents. Sleep was something we took for granted, and then we had a baby and didn’t get any. Any decent sleep we managed to get was rejoiced and treasured, and bad night’s sleep - or should I say nights without sleep - were moaned about and took their toll on our energy levels and sanity.

Those who say ‘I slept like a baby’ obviously have never had a baby!

Whilst I am a believer that babies need to wake in the night for feeds, and can handle middle of the night feeds, there is a difference between a baby waking for a feed and then settling back to sleep relatively peacefully and quickly, to a baby who screams, wakes often or does not sleep at all regardless of being well fed, burped and with a clean nappy. With Bug we had the latter type of baby.