Arms & legs marching up & down

My child is possessed.

Possessed by the instinct to get mobile as soon as possible, that is.

Even in his sleep, he rolls on to his stomach and those irrepressible arms & legs start their marching up and down, as a result pretty much no one in our household was getting any sleep.

Matters were not helped by the plastic wrap on his mattress (supposed to be a preventative against cot death/SIDS, but definitely a preventative against sleep!) All night long: crackle crackle grunt snork crackle whimper grizzle crackle.

Several times a night we would get up and disentangle Braeden from the cot which to all intents and purposes seemed to be trying to eat him. Those bars double as teeth, don't you know.

In frustration, I removed the plastic mattress wrap, and dug the old Safe-T-Sleep out of the drawer. (You'll ballywell stay in one position, sunshine, and be a bit quieter with it!)

The first day he fought the new bedding for a bit, but buckled after half an hour each time. Not really crying, just disoriented and bewildered. Then once he got the hang of it, he was off to dreamland with no further argument.

That night he slept from 9pm until 5am, waking only to announce a wet nappy and oh yeah while you're at it, you might as well top me up? Thanks very much. (Oh you're WELCOME, darling son!!)

Last night was a bit more complicated - he worked out how to wriggle those legs free of his bedding, and although his midriff was still imprisioned in the Safe-T-Sleep thus preventing him from wandering onto his belly, he still made himself cold regularly and thus woke twice in discomfort. Finally at 4am his awful mother announced "I'm gonna fix YOU, sucker!" and dug back into his bedding cupboard and came to light with his old sleeping bag.

That which he has grown out of.. but is still big enough to restrain those emphatic legs if the top of said bag is nappy-pinned to the bottom of the safety sleep.

Thus wrapped, our wee sprog snuggled off to sleep and woke refreshed at 8am.


He's just starting to stir now, so I'll pick him up and see if I can put the pix up while I feed him.

Enjoy!