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Dad's hilarious sex toy hack to get baby to sleep


An Aussie mum has been left red-faced after her husband devised an unconventional method of sending their baby to sleep – by using a sex toy to rock her bed.

Laura Bentley ‘choked on her tea’ after discovering husband Brad’s unusual hack to ensure a constant vibration that kept 10-week-old daughter Lucie’s bassinet gently shaking.

The mum-of-four, from Queensland, left the internet in hysterics with a viral image of her youngest daughter slumbering soundly next to the pink plastic vibrator.

Notice the pink vibrator in the corner that is so cleverly helping this bub sleep. Source: Caters
Notice the pink vibrator in the corner that is so cleverly helping this bub sleep. Source: Caters

But the 33-year-old admitted she has since been flooded with messages from other sleep-deprived new mums desperate to try the trick for themselves.

Laura, who has her own business with Brad, 34, alongside running Instagram blog Attempting to Mum, said, “Lucie is baby number four so we are used to it by now, but she does not do very well at day sleeps.

“We’ve found to put her down, we have to literally stand behind her rocking the bassinet to replicate the movement of the car.

“On Monday, I was at the gym and Brad got done with spending 20 minutes rocking the bassinet, so he decided to force the process and thought ‘what can I use to make the vibrations’.

Dad Brad came up with the idea to place a vibrator in the cot when he struggled to get his daughter to sleep. Source: Caters
Dad Brad came up with the idea to place a vibrator in the cot when he struggled to get his daughter to sleep. Source: Caters

“He had to go digging for it, I had no idea where it was because we’ve just had a baby!

“I came home, and he just said ‘I used the vibrator to get the baby to sleep’.

“The thing is, it sent her to sleep straight away! It’s amazing and works so well.

“It’s now more inconspicuously hidden in the bassinet, but we’re still using it.”

Laura, who is also mum to Will, 10, four-year-old Indie, and Zahli, two, said she was momentarily concerned keyboard warriors wouldn’t see the funny side of her post.

But the blogger, who has 10,000 Instagram followers, said other parenting blogs also credit vibrators with helping keep their little ones slumbering soundly.

Mummy blogger Laura who shared the funny hack to Instagram said the reaction has been amazing. Source: Caters
Mummy blogger Laura who shared the funny hack to Instagram said the reaction has been amazing. Source: Caters

Laura, who gave birth to Lucie on March 19, added, “When I first posted the picture I was petrified people wouldn’t see the funny, humorous side, that the fact it works is so funny.

“But so many people have been agreeing with me – the reaction has been amazing.

“There have been a few negative Nancys out there, but mostly it’s been completely positive.

“When you have a child, you will literally do everything you can to get them to sleep.

“Afterwards Brad spent some time Googling vibrating motors so we could come up with another similar method, which wasn’t a sex toy.

“But other parenting blogs suggest it as well, and it’s even in an episode of Sex and the City.

“I wasn’t trying to offend anybody, and my followers are aware of my sense of humour and that I’m very light-hearted and sarcastic.”

For more of Laura’s musings on parenthood check her Instagram here.

With reporting by Caters News.


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