IT’S almost a rite of passage — your young child collects all his soothers, puts them in a bag and hangs them on a tree for the ‘dodi fairy’. She will take them and leave a present.

YOU never meant it to happen but there are three in the bed — you, your partner and your toddler. 

An estimated one in four families experience sleep problems during a child’s early years, but there is help out there for parents, writes Lucy Taylor,