I'm trying this tonight... Can't hurt, right? For months (years?) I have been hearing (from Mexicans) that to get a baby to sleep well, put some romaine lettuce leaves in the bath. Even the pediatrician suggested it. Here goes nothing!
Has anyone else heard of this or tried it?
persimmon / 1408 posts
Never heard of it.... But can't hurt to try, right?
I love old wives tales remedies!!!
bananas / 9118 posts
How many? I'm definitely willing to give it a shot! Good luck!
Seriously, a full night in my own bed would be amazing...
grapefruit / 4120 posts
Haha I'm not certain about the ratio @lemondrop. We use a Puj s we stuck about four leaves in there. You look like you have more space/water so I say a few more. Check in tomorrow! Hope is a beautiful thing 
bananas / 9118 posts
@sloaneandpuffy: lol, will do... I have 2 tortoises that I feed the romaine to at night anyway, so it just had one more stop on the way to their mouths 
grapefruit / 4731 posts
Very interesting! Never heard of this. Thanks for sharing. Let us know how it went.
clementine / 780 posts
I've heard something similar except it consists of eating it, and specifically iceberg lettuce! But that bath looks awesome!
grapefruit / 4120 posts
So, I don't really think it worked. No problem getting to sleep but the same 1001 wake ups as usual. I'm going to try again though. There has to be something there. I'm not giving up!!!
nectarine / 2085 posts
I love it! My 2yo sleeps fine, but I think the floating leaves look like good bath time fun! It totally reminds me of the manatee tanks at the zoo.
In all seriousness, I would totally try this with a second baby. Good luck!
pomelo / 5000 posts
Shoot! I read this with such hope you were going to say it was a miracle cure. I was looking forward to having some strange, but awesome, tips to share with friends.
grapefruit / 4120 posts
When I googled this, some people said they boiled the lettuce first, then mixed in cold water and used that as the bath water. So maybe I am doing it wrong. I am going to try boiling first. Baby soup!
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
What is the active ingredient in lettuce that helps with sleep? I've seriously never heard of this and am wondering if it's not already available by another name?
grapefruit / 4442 posts
please tell me how this went...I need DD to sleep more than she does now
coconut / 8861 posts
I've never heard of this. I just added a new sleep association for our LO by rubbing him with Johnson & Johnson lavender bedtime lotion to help him sleep. We did it after his bath on Saturday to success.
grapefruit / 4120 posts
To be fair, she did fall asleep quite quickly after this bath, so if your problem is getting the baby to sleep, this might be good. I'll let you know if the boiling helps with anything. What I need is for her to STAY asleep.
bananas / 9118 posts
No luck here either, he still had his usual 3:30 wake up. Definitely easy to get him to sleep last night (but that's normal 50% of the time).
I'm going to try to up my bathwater to lettuce ratio and see what happens (throw in a whole darn head!). Maybe also run it in some really hot water first, wait for it to cool, then give the bath... it is definitely a fun experiment, and the tortoises didn't mind that the lettuce had a little extra pre-wash!
My husband looked at me like I was crazy and asked me about the science behind it... so I told him to shut his pie hole or take over the night wake-ups It will give him a fun "my wife is nuts" story to tell the girls at his work today- what can I say, I live to entertain him!
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