Kid suffering from aching legs, sore shins and poor sleep? Midnight & Star uses 5 natural ingredients, including magnesium, in an easy-to-apply calming cream.
Relieving the pain in your kid's legs, so they can get back to their energetic selves.
Sore legs, sleepless nights, grumpy and tired every morning - your kid can't catch a break.
Midnight & Star uses a range of minerals including magnesium, designed to fight those sharp pains keeping them up at night. No tablets. No GP visits. Just a happier, pain free kid.
Ditch the Panadol and the Nurofen, or the regular GP visits.
The calming application of Midnight & Star cream is designed to increase natural melatonin, and decrease cortisol levels. Relieving their pains in a natural and safe way, instead of the trade-offs that come with pain relievers.
Growing pains are much more than sore legs. They can tank your kid's sleep and overall development.
Midnight & Star eases the transition from awake to sleep through 5 natural ingredients and a calming rub, giving your kid a pain-free and deeper night's rest. Providing an energetic and vibrant kid each morning.
Flatter mood, aching legs, and tired eyes aren't the only negatives of growing pains. Almost 100% of physical and cognitive development occurs during deep sleep, even more so in young kids.
Midnight & Star is designed to remove leg aches and promote deeper sleep through magnesium, lavender and other key ingredients. Giving your kid the deep, unbroken sleep their body does its growing in.
Growing pains don't just mean poor sleep for them. They mean poor sleep for you too. Parents are up all night caring for a distressed and aching kid, as a loving parent does.
With Midnight & Star, your kid sleeps through the night pain free, which means you do too. No more sluggish and snappy mum. Just you, finally feeling human again.
With over 11,000 families feeling the benefits of an ache-free household, Midnight & Star is the top pick for parents and kids who are suffering from growing pains.
The natural, calming and tablet-free cream is the best choice to ease your kid's sore legs, giving the whole house a deeper night's sleep, pain free.
Kid-strength magnesium rub that soothes aching legs at night, and gives the whole house a great night's sleep.
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Sceptical husband review. My wife bought this and I made a comment about expensive moisturiser, which I have since been reminded of many times. Our 4 year old is asleep in ten to fifteen minutes now instead of the 45 minute negotiation we were having. I dont have an explanation for it and I've stopped asking for one. It works, it smells nice, she asks for it, we're keeping it.
My 6 year old had been waking up crying about his legs three or four nights a week since he was four. The GP said he would grow out of it and gave me nothing else to try. I refused to keep giving him Panadol every night so I tried this instead. Three weeks in and he has woken up once.
I did not think a cream on her feet would do anything about the pain in her shins. I thought it was just growing pains and that we had to wait it out. Two weeks in she is going the whole way through most nights, and when she does wake it is minutes instead of an hour.
Heat packs, compression socks, stretching before bed, Panadol, chewable magnesium. You name it, we tried it, and he was still holding his shins at midnight. Started rubbing this into his feet and legs after books. He still gets the odd night, but it is twenty minutes instead of two hours.
Writing this at 9pm from the couch, which is the whole point of the review. For a year my night had a second shift in it around midnight, him sobbing about his legs and me rubbing them until he wore himself out. He has not called out for nine nights. I still wake at midnight out of habit and then remember I do not have to get up.
The first two nights I thought it had done nothing, he was up holding his legs same as always. Somewhere around night four he slept right through, and he has most nights since. His footy coach asked what we had changed before I had said anything to anyone. I don't fully know why it works and I don't really care anymore.
The thing nobody tells you about a kid in pain at night is what it does to you. Standing over him with no idea how to help, night after night. I was crying in the car at pick up. I was snapping at everyone. We are three weeks in, he is sleeping through, and I have my patience back. That is what I am reviewing really, not the cream.
reported their kids falling asleep faster and easier
reported no more disruptions through the night
felt no more growing pain troubles through the night
experienced an increase in their own sleep too
Post-purchase survey of 500 parents, four weeks in.
Before you ask
A coin-sized amount on legs, feet or chest. It goes on skin: nothing is swallowed, nothing is dosed, and nothing in the jar looks or tastes like candy. The whole label is five ingredients you can pronounce.
Melatonin borrows sleep from a hormone system that's still developing, and the gummy has to end one day. A wind-down teaches a kid's body to bring itself down, and it gets stronger with repetition, not weaker.
Yes, it does absorb. Warmth, pressure and a repeated scent cue are the settle signals paediatric sleep research keeps landing on. Magnesium is the 200-year-old tradition the ritual carries, from the epsom bath to grandma's rub.
60 nights, money back, nothing to post back. If bedtimes aren't better, you keep the tub and the refund.
Only the cream. The blanket is yours from the first box; nothing else is ever rebilled. Skip, pause or cancel in two taps.
Two and up. It is formulated for a child’s skin rather than scaled down from an adult spray, which is why it doesn’t sting the way adult magnesium oil does. Parents use it on toddlers who fight bedtime and on twelve-year-olds with aching legs after sport.
Some parents notice the first night, because the warmth and the pressure are working straight away. The routine is the part that compounds. The bedtime-routine research is dose-dependent, so three nights a week beats one and every night beats three. Give it two weeks before you judge it. You have 60 to change your mind.
Five ingredients, and no nut oils. We turned down a cheaper formula that used sweet almond oil for exactly this reason. Magnesium chloride, lavender, chamomile, vitamin E. Patch-test the inside of an arm on the first night if you want to be certain.
Yes, and it’s yours to keep. It ships in your first box on any subscription, it is never rebilled, and if you cancel you keep it.
A flat $5, and free on any order over $54 - which a 2-jar subscription clears on its own, and a single jar clears the moment you add anything to it. Most orders land in 5 to 14 days.
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