Ok, I'm sure everyone has something that works every single time they do it to soothe their child to sleep if they are overtired but having trouble getting to sleep.

So I thought I could start a thread, in case there were people out there having troubles and out of ideas - maybe this could help!!

Mine - to get my kids to sleep, I have always put them face down on my chest. I then pat their bum in the rhythm of a heart beat (think dirty dancing, da doom, da doom) while I also breathe really deeply against their ear - sorta like darth vader.... lol

With those two combined, it always seems to work with my kids in getting them off to sleep even when they are at their crankiest (well it just worked with Miss M - even food wasn't putting her to sleep!!)

Sooo.. what's your tricks?