Parents are desperate for their children to get butter sleep at night.
A new trend on TikTok has revealed a new and unusual method parents are resorting to to get their kids to sleep: feeding them butter.
Exhausted parents are giving their little ones a spoonful of butter before putting them down for the night, and some claim that it helps the kids sleep through the night.
The trend started with moms in the US giving their tots "real" butter and has spread to the UK and New Zealand, allowing them to allegedly get a full eight hours of sleep.
Though some parents swear by this so-called hack, experts have said it might not make a difference -- and it might even do more harm than good.
One mom on TikTok has been documenting her venture into the butter trend and sharing results with her followers.
"So we are going to try the butter trend where you give your baby a spoonful of butter and apparently it works magic and they sleep all night long," user @.millieellis said in a video.
Millie claimed that her baby Ivy slept all night with the exception of one feed and one time where she was woken up by noisy neighbors.
On night two, Millie shared that Ivy slept longer in between the periods where she woke up, but she wasn't sure if it was due to the butter or because the baby was overtired from the day.
A New Zealand mom also tired the trend, sharing that her 15-month-old baby had never slept through the night, and she was willing to try anything.
"What do I have to lose?" mom Paige Balloch said in the video.
In a follow-up video, Balloch shared that the trend didn't work on her little one. She put the toddler to sleep at around 7 p.m., and by slightly after 8 p.m., she had already woken up three times.
But experts claim that feeding your baby butter is "absolutely not" the best way to get them to sleep through the night.
Charlotte Stirling-Reed, a leading baby nutritionist, told the Independent that social media is "rife with misinformation" and that butter, which is high in salt and saturated fat, is not recommended for babies.
"Additionally, the texture and slipperiness of butter can pose a choking risk for babies who are still developing their eating skills," she warned.
"Incorporating butter into cooking or spreading a thin layer on toast is perfectly fine. However, offering large chunks of butter directly from a spoon is not advisable."
She also noted that it's normal for babies to wake during the night.
According to the NHS, "Newborn babies invariably wake up repeatedly in the night for the first few months, and disturbed nights can be very hard to cope with."
"All babies change their sleep patterns. Be prepared to change routines as your baby grows and enters different stages. And remember, growth spurts, teething and illnesses can all affect how your baby sleeps."