Other difficulty sleeping tips:

* Have a tryptophan & carb-rich snack like a banana and a glass of warm milk before bed
* Turn off screens/lights 2 hours before bedtime
* Make sure lights in the sleeping area are dim & warm (yellow) coloured. I recently bought a low-wattage LED globe for my bedside lamp and changed the lightbulbs in the loungeroom from compact fluoro to LED and I cannot believe the difference this has made.
* Sleepiness comes in waves. If you're still awake after 30-45min, get up and do something non-stimulating (low-light) light reading, drawing/journalling, listening to music. And be ready to climb back into bed & turn the light off when the next wave of sleepiness hits.
* Finish all your exercising before dinner time.
* Massaging your own feet, hands, and even temples with a really nice aromatherapy hand cream with rose, chamomile, lavender is very soothing.
* Learn the breathing method where you breathe in for the count of four, then breathe out for the count of six (and pause before breathing in again). This does something to the blood gases that works as a biological relaxer & improves breathing during sleep as well.
* Check that DD is actually comfortable in bed. Maybe her bed-coverings are too warm, maybe the pillow is past its best days, maybe she is a little heavier now and needs a new mattress.
* Don't watch the clock. Sleep will come. The more chilled out you are the quicker it will arrive.
And the weird one: Take an epsom salts bath a couple of hours before bed. The theory is something about the magnesium makes people sleepy. This is one of those weird old tips we've forgotten because we live in a commercial-product saturated world, but all of our Nannas knew about because it works. If you can't manage a whole bath, even a 15 minute foot bath will do it.