There are two undeniable, universal truths when it comes to babies.
Firstly, they are adorable. And secondly? The moment they arrive into the world they are guaranteed to steal every spare second of your precious, precious sleep.
Luckily, one mum from Essex in the UK has shared a clever hack that she says has kept her young daughter sleeping through the night for months.
Posting on parenting Facebook page The Motherload, Laura Gerson said she's come up with a "weird bedtime routine" that's worked wonders for her 11-month-old daughter Amelia.
"Since my little one was about 3 months old she's gone to bed with roughly 10 dummies in with her," Laura shared with 51,000 other parents.
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As difficult as it may be to believe, a close friend of mine used this hack when her daughter was a baby. That 'baby' will be 43 on 18 January. However, my friend had the dummies on strings around her daughter's neck! How she didn't strangle herself I don't know. She went to bed every night with four dummies around her neck. The whole household slept well but I for one was happy when that little girl grew out of her dummy.
Orthodontists everywhere will be loving this hack!