Nested Naturals Luna Kids Sugar-Free Sleep Aid Tablets for Children 4+ - Naturally Sourced Ingredients - Herbal Sleep Supplement with Chamomile, Melatonin, Valerian & Lemon Balm - 60 Chewable Tablets

LUNA Kids has been a life saver for our family. My 9 year old has had a tough time falling asleep since he was a baby. Way back then we'd make jokes about how he just wasn't a "napper" but that quickly lost its humor when we realized that he was always going to have these issues. By the time he was 3 or 4, it was becoming a real problem for us all. We have a great bedtime routine and are always careful to make sure that he gets the right amount of necessary vitamins and trace minerals paired warm baths, aromatherapy, sleepy time guided meditations and/or beta waves but frequently that wasn't enough. He struggled to fall asleep and would lay there for hours sometimes. He would tell us that he hated bedtime and just wished that he could fall asleep. I can relate as I also have difficulty falling asleep but seeing him go through it was terrible and made us all feel so helpless. I really hated to see him suffer. I knew we needed help but we're very naturally minded so I was hesitant to try just anything. I did a lot of research and spoke with his pediatrician about our options. I was worried about giving anything artificial or with too much Melatonin and his doctor agreed that those things weren't a good idea. We finally had a full panel blood and DNA test run on him and found out that he has a specific variation of the MTHFR mutation which can interfere with your body's natural Melatonin production! This was likely a very big reason why he was having such a hard time sleeping. He DID need to start on a supplement to get his natural production up and a push in the right direction every now and again. We introduced a high quality B12 (L-Methylfolate) vitamin to help with these things and started looking for a sleep supplement that we could use sporadically and would suit his needs. There are a few kids sleep aids out there that claim to be natural and gentle and we went through a couple before we found LUNA. I wanted to try the supplements myself before giving them to him to be sure that they weren't going to be too harsh. The first one we bought contained 1mg of Melatonin per tablet and suggested that you give someone in his age/weight range 2! I took two myself one night (a small dose for me, according to their packaging) and don't remember much after that. When I woke up the next day, I felt like I got hit by a truck. It was anything but pleasant and I certainly didn't feel well rested. More like I was waking up from having been passed out! The next aid we tried was a slightly lower dose of Melatonin but still seemed like too much for me (left me feeling groggy and out of it) so I was worried how he would react to it. (Not only that, they tasted terrible!). Next, I tried LUNA. I loved that it had a low dose of Melatonin (just enough!) was natural, gentle, and GMO-free. I wondered why I hadn't tried it first! It didn't taste bad, helped me to feel sleepy within about 30 minutes of taking them, and I slept soundly through the night. The next morning I woke refreshed like I hadn't taken anything at all. I felt good. I was sold! My son tried them the next time he was having a rough time getting to sleep and he was out within 45 minutes. This is amazing for him! He really likes his LUNA but only asks to take them on nights when he has tried other things and nothing seems to be working. I'd say he takes them 2-3 times a month, on average. They are gentle, non-habit forming, and help to get the job done. We suggest them to all of our friends. We're so glad that we found LUNA and will be customers for a long time to come! Thanks for making such a great product!

As someone who has ADHD, I have never slept for more than a few hours a night. I go three - four days with only 2-4 hours of sleep and then on the 5th-6th day, fall asleep on the couch as soon as my husband walks in the door and sits down for dinner with the kids. I hate taking medications, partially because I have to remember to take them and partially because I really do believe we overmedicate. As for herbs, after being raised by a hippy granola mom, I am skeptical - just my personal opinion. After a life time of struggling with sleep issues, I decided to seek out professional help. I didm't want prescribed sleep aids so, at the advice of several medical professionals, I skeptically decided to try melatonin again. This time around, I had medical guidance regarding melatonin and learned that the present theory on melatonin is that micro amounts work better than large amounts. Luna Kids contains .2mg of melatonin. It also contains valerian root which I learned really does have a sedative effect (huh. Turns out some of this herbal stuff does actually work. People, I'm eating my words about all herbal supplements being quackery). At the suggestion of my doctor, I've made some changes to my life. Since my brain can't stop racing at night, clutter in the bedroom keeps my mind processing. I now have a very minimalist bedroom. My nightstand is bare, except for a few items - book, clock, glass of water, morning medication. I have created a bedtime routine and schedule. I take Luna Kids two hours before bedtime, when I begin my nightly prep for the next day and wrap up for the evening. As someone with ADHD, it's hard to stay on target, but the schedule helps. With Luna Kids, I am able to fall asleep. Also, I do not wake up feeling drugged. After a lifetime of not sleeping, I'm discovering how much my lack of sleep impacted my life. On occasion, I have given it to my children. They don't mind the taste, which is a rarity with them. I give them a quarter or a half a pill. It works great. I had my kids pediatrician look at Luna Kids before giving it to my children. I also had my doctor look at it. Both doctors were impressed with the product and now suggest it to their patients. I love the fact Luna Kids is chewable. Straight forward and done. Definitely a huge believer in this product. I do not give Luna Kids to my children very often. I think only a handful of times. I'd much rather they develop coping skills to figure out how to get to sleep. But, as someone with ADHD, I do know that isn't always the case.

Well, I was extremely skeptical about these at first. Could they really do what they claimed to do? I have a son with ADHD, combined type, and generalized anxiety, who has a terrible time getting to sleep at night. He does take a very mild medication to assist him in getting to sleep, but it's just not enough. The medicine helps him get to sleep, but not stay asleep throughout the night. So we searched online to find something natural that might help him get a good night's sleep when we found these on Amazon. The reviews looked good enough. However, we couldn't find anything mentioning how these chewables tasted or how big they were. My son is very picky, and he has an aversion to the taste of most vitamins, so that was a big concern for us. We found out that the flavor was "tropical berry", and luckily, my son agreed to at least try them, thinking he could swallow them if he didn't like the taste and if they were small enough. We bought them, figuring we'd give them a try as we were pretty desperate to find something to help him. So really, what did we have to lose? They came speedy fast and immediately after receiving them, we had our son try them out before bed. The first night they made my son a little sleepier than usual which was nice, but we hadn't gotten the full effect just yet, as it takes a few days to weeks for that to happen. We're now a few weeks out and it works like magic. We give it to him right before bed, and he is now getting a full night's rest. He's even sleeping in, which is so unusual for him. He's always been the kid up before us around 5:30 - 6:00 am in the morning. This supplement has been great for us. Another plus is my son is sleeping so well, he's sleeping in his own bed now without coming into our bed in the middle of the night. I'm so glad we gave these a try. One negative is my son is not crazy about the taste of the chewables. He thinks they're too sour (which sounds good to me) so he chews it fast and swallows it partially whole as it's small enough (see my picture). He's still getting the full effects though, and I am happy that their natural and that they don't interact with the medicine he already takes. I do recommend these to anyone with an ADHD child or a child with anxiety to calm them down so they can get a good sleep throughout the night.

Why I bought this: My daughter has had a problem falling asleep lately. No matter what the routine is she just won't fall asleep until around ten pm and then wakes up super grumpy in the mornings and pretty much all day. She comes home from school with a tummy ache every day and says it is because she did not get enough sleep. She has had difficulty being distracted at school and finishing her work (I'm assuming because she is tired). The first two nights she took this it was a breeze putting her to bed and she fell asleep by 8pm. Last night was the first night she did not take it and I really wish she had, the morning routine was rough. Taste: Out of my three kids two ate it just fine with no comment on the taste. One of them is not crazy about it and it takes some coercing, quick chewing and a swig of water to get it down. I tasted it and it isn't that bad, a mild berry flavor. I would give it five stars if all of my kids liked the taste. Overall: It is a great product. I love that it is portioned safely for kids, and it really does help my kids fall asleep easier. My experience has been that after giving kids anything with melatonin you really have to have them in bed with the lights out within 20 minutes or they REALLY have a melt down and it just makes getting through the bedtime routine harder. I also added a foot massage to the bedtime routine with essential oils (diluted Peaceful Sleep essential oil by Now) and Magnesium Oil with Aloe Vera by Raise Them Well. The combination of the three products has really made a difference in my daughters sleep cycles and attitude. Good luck exhausted parents!

Love this product. I give it to my very ADHD grandchild and in about 30 - 45 minutes he says he's ready to lay down. It's part of our bedtime routine.

We sleep now. That's all I really have to say, lol, but I'll give detail... My poor sweet girl has had sleeping issues her whole life - just like me. We get tired, but very rarely can we fall asleep. As a newborn, we co-slept. It was great for awhile, but at 6 months she was waking every 30 minutes and would nurse for 2 minutes before falling asleep, not getting enough milk to satisfy her tummy. I (stupidly) listened to my (now ex) husband, who wanted her to stay in our bed, but wouldn't feed her or change diapers. He did on occasion rock her, which gave me some rest after we put her in her own crib, but he would summon me after some time had passed and she was still wide awake. If we laid her down, she would cry. She just wanted to be near people. So I decided it was time to leave her in her room, to get the message through that nighttime is for sleeping. He would still go in and get her out, then come get me. That went on until she was two, then I had my second child and we separated. Now I was parenting alone. My newborn adjusted quickly - co-sleeping until 6 months, then sleeping all night in her own crib, then in her own room. Amazing. My trouble-sleeper, on the other hand, NEVER SLEEPY. I tried everything - changing sleep routines, massages, oils, tea, meditations, stretches, herbal aids, NOTHING WORKED. So then I started on low doses of melatonin, which helped her fall asleep. But she still woke up at 12 and 3am, jittery, spastic, scared, lonely, nightmares... a lot of what I was going through personally manifesting in my daughter as well. I didn't want to give her too much, to the point where she was reliant on melatonin. I even took some her doses to see how it felt at night, and would wake up in a sleep-aid-hangover and felt spacy and spastic for half the day. She's 4 years old now, and I'm still trying to empower her to stay in her own bed, to roll over when she wakes, to take a sip of water, to go potty... A few successes that I can literally count on one hand. But every night is the same. If I send her back to bed at 12am, it's tears and screaming and "please scratch my back, sing me a song, I don't want to be alone" until she passes out. Then up at 3am, she's up, same rants, passing out, then up again until about 6am, when she's WIDE AWAKE and seems fine. I started looking at sleep aids for myself, and LUNA came up often. Then I saw LUNA Kids - let me say, I'm flat broke most of the time, I barely make an income, but I NEEDED these ASAP. Our first night, we both took one. I woke up naturally, early, and rested. She woke up once time, no tears, no crying, and went back to bed without a fuss. Now, she'll get up and go to the bathroom, calmly find me and ask to be tucked back in bed. WHAT!!! Yes. You need to try these.

My son is 9 years old he has ADHD and ODD and Autism we have tried for years to get him to go to sleep. He couldn't even lay still for a minute to try to sleep very active and his mind would think about everything else, but sleep. Well we tried everything hot milk warm baths with essential oils and it helped a bit, he would lay in bed but, still would play in bed all hours of the night. We tried a doctor because he was getting no sleep and he gave him a sleeping pills that were not suppose to be addicting, well they were! My husband and I pulled him off of the sleeping pills and fired our child's doctor. We tried the nighty night tea that are all natural for children and my son loved the taste and sometimes he would fall a sleep and sometimes he couldn't . But still gave him the tea faithfully and warm bath with essential oils, and we would read him a bed time story. Because thats all i knew how to help him. But he would still sleep walk and talk in his sleep constantly, you could even tell him you love him when he was sleeping for hours and he would tell me love you too mommy . No deep sleep there!! Well, he would wake up every morning cranky and most of the time he had huge meltdowns, we homeschool and he couldn't learn because he was so sleepy and when we would take him anywhere he would want to fall asleep if he had to sit still for a few minutes, it was impossible and a losing battle. I know they say melatonin is safe and natural because our bodies make it but I was still worried about the store's brand and about giving him a adult form because that's all you can find at the store. So I got onto amazon, looking for children natural sleeping aid and read the reviews and checking into the ingredients, because of ADHD i don't give him sugar, dyes, etc. so after a few weeks I decided to give it a Luna kids a try shipping was very fast. The first night i gave it to him, he wasn't crazy about the taste at first, but he kept chewing it and said it was good after you got use to it and he generally takes him about 1 hour to fall a sleep after taking it. No more sleep walking and the sleep talking and rolling all over the bed, and best of all he doesn't answer me when i ask him a question in his sleep ....he's sleeping good now and he wakes up on his own now no more pulling him out of the bed every morning. He's happy and calm luna doesn't seem to bother his stomach either usually everything seems to upset his stomach and he's not groggy the next day. I hope this will continue to work, because when he sleeps good so do I . He been without quality sleep for way too long! How hope this review will help someone :)

Three weeks ago, if you would've told me my son would be sleeping without a fight every night, I wouldn't have believed you. I was really skeptical about this product because we tried everything to help our 5 year old fall asleep at night and no matter what, it's a battle, and he's been that way since he was a baby. His little sister goes to sleep pretty easily, so I couldn't understand what it was we were doing wrong with our son. He is scared of the dark and would scream (and I really mean SCREAM) if we turned off the lights, or even just had a little night light. He would even tell us that he wasn't tired so we wouldn't put him to bed, even though it was so obvious he was rubbing his eyes, drowsy and over tired. We were telling our neighbors about our problem, and the mom told us that she gives these to her 12 year old son for his anxiety before bedtime. I didn't even realize that what my son was experiencing was a severe amount of anxiety before bedtime. Still skeptical, I ordered these anyway because it couldn't hurt to spend a few dollars after already spending so much on other things like essential oils, bath salts, sleepy time bath soaps, even a sleepy time sound track. Now before we ordered it, we had already started working on a more consistent bedtime routine, and letting him know throughout the day when we'd be going to bed and what things we need to do before we go to bed and sleep. Things like "when we get home, we'll have dinner, clean up the toys, take a shower, and brush our teeth before bed" so that he knew what to expect when we'd get home. We gave him 1 pill a half hour before bedtime and I really couldn't believe how much more relaxed he was about going to bed! He still tried to fight it, but with much less kicking and screaming. Once in bed, we read books, say prayers and he falls asleep so peacefully now. I can happily say it's been 3 weeks of peaceful bedtimes that I never dreamed we would have! *****TL;DR version: 1. To make the most out of this product, I highly recommend having a solid bedtime routine and managing your child's expectations by letting him/her know throughout the day when bedtime is and what will happen before going to bed. Establishing a routine has now helped him associate these events with sleep. 2. Give this to your child early enough. Giving it to our son too late when he's already over tired doesn't seem to help very much, and takes him much longer to fall asleep than if we give it to him a half hour before he should be in bed. 3. Your child may not like the taste of these. My son likes these just fine, while his sister can't stand it.