how did you get your your babies to sleep

[slinky.kate]

usually i gave them the usual bath,story and often they would fall asleep,but if they were playing up i lay down beside them and said 'listen' i hear willie winkie,close your eyes quick and dont move til they go away,worked every time.

[pericat]

Bl00dy hell slinky you probably scared the cr@p out of them

[slinky.kate]

probably,but at least it worked,its better than slapping them

[humpy07]

I found brandy worked best!

[ummmm]

I was rubbish...they went to sleep in my arms everynight. If they woke I cuddled them back to sleep.

[sherrardk]

Me too ummmm, still doing it with the (neraly) two year old twins!

[ummmm]

I had to do it until I could sit middle son down and explain things. Then he was OK...

[mike11111]

I like humpy07's answer as it is so close to the truth. Victorian nannies (not all) used to douse babies' dummies in tincture of laudanum ( a derivative of opium, at the time available over the counter in pharmacies), to keep them quiet. Even in the first half of the 20th century, dipping a dummy in whisky coated with sugar was not unknown.

There may be some baby-boomers out there who remember a product called ' Nurse Dinneford's Gripewater ', given to infants to relieve the symptoms of colic. It contained a small amount of alcohol and tasted lovely! When my baby brother was born and I was 4, if she gave him a spoonful I would pester her until I got one too, which may go some way to explaining my current fondness for the bottle!

[Mr Veritas]

My wife Elsie says she would like to help you,but as it's over 50 years ago since she had her last baby,she has forgotten!

[suzie1]

tell em boogy man is outside waiting for them to make a sound, they'll soon nod off!!!