Exhausted mum gives restless toddler £3 Sainsbury's 'Sleep Well' milk and doesn't regret it

An exhausted mum was so fed up with her restless toddler's sleeping patterns,, she decided to try Sainsbury's £3 'Sleep Well' milk, which claims to help little ones get a good night's rest.

The 'Sleep Well' Milk claims to aid a restful night's sleep, and isn't just for kids.

It contains valerian, the herb that's been helping people relax for years

Sleep Well Oat drink can be enjoyed cold or warm as part of your bedtime routine.

Mum Caroline, who is a reporter at our sister site Hull Live, tried giving her Toddler Alf - who had never before slept through the night - the £3 milk, which can be found at Sainsbury's, Holland and Barrett and online.

Sainsbury's currently sells cartons of the chocolate version for £3 each, or you can get three cartons of the oat flavoured milk at Holland and Barrett for £3.75.

Even while pregnant with him, I was reading a baby sleep book that promised to have them sleeping through from about five weeks, or something daft like that.

So with all our experience with our daughter and my new found knowledge from this sleep bible I was super confident that sleep was not going to be an issue with Alf.

And in those early days things were great - well they always are when you’re in that newborn bubble aren’t they?

But, from around four months in, when the dreaded four month sleep regression hits, things took a bad turn.

Alf is now two and he’s never slept through. Well, unless you are counting sleeping through until 4am. I’m not.

We thought we’d finally cracked it a couple of months ago. He was happily going to sleep in his cot, by himself, even telling us "bye bye" in his sweet little voice as we wished him goodnight and left the room.

But very quickly things took a turn for the worst and Alf was