--- title: How to Put a Baby to Sleep in Less Than 60 Seconds description: A viral video by YouTuber and Australian father Nathan Dailo shows his trick for putting his baby to sleep in less than a minute canonical: https://time.com/3820655/put-baby-to-sleep-tips-hints-60-seconds-tissue/ author: Sabrina Toppa article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-14T04:22:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:41.972Z og:title: How to Put Your Baby to Sleep in Less Than 60 Seconds og:description: All you need is some tissue paper. og:url: https://time.com/3820655/put-baby-to-sleep-tips-hints-60-seconds-tissue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Put Your Baby to Sleep in Less Than 60 Seconds twitter:description: All you need is some tissue paper. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is How You Can Put a Baby to Sleep in Less Than 60 Seconds by [Sabrina Toppa](https://time.com/author/sabrina-toppa/) ## Sabrina Toppa Apr 14, 2015 4:22 AM UTC by [Sabrina Toppa](https://time.com/author/sabrina-toppa/) ## Sabrina Toppa Apr 14, 2015 4:22 AM UTC If you’ve tried everything and nothing has worked, don’t give up just yet. Simply reach for the Kleenex. In under a minute, YouTuber and Australian father Nathan Dailo sends his baby to sleep by gently tickling the infant’s face with tissue paper. “The tissue trick isn’t actually anything special. Any light touching on the baby’s facial areas such as the head, forehead or the bridge of the nose also works,” Dailo tells TIME. The video has garnered more than 4 million views and inspired innumerable other parents to deploy the technique. However, Dailo cautions that his technique isn’t the only one. “Remember that each child is different, and what works for some parents may not work for others. And always use you’re instincts. _You_ are the parent,” Dailo stresses. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3820655/put-baby-to-sleep-tips-hints-60-seconds-tissue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3820655/put-baby-to-sleep-tips-hints-60-seconds-tissue/"},"headline":"This Is How You Can Put a Baby to Sleep in Less Than 60 Seconds","datePublished":"2015-04-14T04:22:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:41.972Z","description":"All you need is some tissue paper","url":"https://time.com/3820655/put-baby-to-sleep-tips-hints-60-seconds-tissue/","keywords":["Living","Newsfeed","Parenting","viral","Parents","Family","baby","video"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sabrina Toppa","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/sabrina-toppa/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3820655/put-baby-to-sleep-tips-hints-60-seconds-tissue/","name":"This Is How You Can Put a Baby to Sleep in Less Than 60 Seconds"}}]}] ```