We have a crawler...
And just like that, she's crawling properly now.
No more army crawls or the multi rolls, she's straight up crawling and pulling herself up on everything she can get her hands on.
Yep. Fun times...
My conundrum is this..
Personally, I'm not too fussed with dirt. I am a little bit but I'm not the fanatic that my husband is. Common sense tells me it'll be worse for her to exist in a super sterile environment.
At the same time though if I haven't mopped the floors for a while I really don't like her thumping on the floor boards 👇🤦🏻♀️👇🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ and now that she's crawling at lightning speeds thumping on the floorboards when I have my back turned has become a game.
She knows "No." and "Oww."
She knows to stop when she hears those words.
The difference between the two is "No." Is treated like a game sometimes while "Oww." is always serious and she stops straight away.
I had considered switching the word usage around so she would stop thumping on the floorboards but I love that she's sensitive and empathic to realise what "Ow" is and to respect boundaries.
These days, my most used phrase is "No Baby!"
This new development means I need to stop co-sleeping with her and actually get her to sleep in her cot.
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The only consolation is that we'll be bringing her cot in our room and putting it next to me. So pretty much replacing the bassinet with the cot.
Not really sure how I feel about this.
I know it's safer for her but we've gone this long and I haven't spent a single night without her by my side since she was born so you know...
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You guys have any tips for us?
How did you get your kid to sleep in their cot?
How long did it take? Or are you still co-sleeping?
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Pretty baby 😍
Awe thank you ❤
I never co-slept with mine, unless you count my eldest when I was so tired I'd just attach her to the breast and fall back to sleep. I'm too light a sleeper, normally, so the slightest sound wakes me. My eldest was in the bassinet next to the bed, but my youngest let me sleep more so every tiny sound woke me and I couldn't even hade her in the room.
My friend makes me laugh, because her daughter is 12 and still often sleeps with her. I asked her what constitutes the cut off point and she said she's not going to be allowed to bring her boyfriend into their bed!
Co sleeping this time around has been a sanity saver for me. Bella tends to stir in the middle of the night and I would end up giving her boob and she'll go back to sleep which means I could go back to sleep too.
Being a light sleeper cant be easy 😪🤗 you'd hate my place.
Lol yeh that would be my cut off too 😂
Why is it safer for her to sleep in her cot rather than with you? Bed not big enough and one of you might fall out? :D Is the cot too structurally unsound to sidecar? If you're just worried she'll fall out because she's crawling well middle child only did that once (she was my insanely early crawler at freaking 6 months wtf, the boys had the decency to be 8-9 months old before they thougth about starting that silliness) and after that came down feet first.
I co-slept with all of mine (in the same bed) from birth. When it was just two and in our old house, oldest slept in a side-carred cot and youngest in between us, when we moved and it was three, JJ co-slept with eldest in another room til eldest was 8 as I had the younger two in the bed with me (we'd gotten rid of the cot by that stage as it had proven to be extraneous). When middle child was ready to sleep in her own room (which she chose to do so at 6) poor youngest (only 4 at the time!) was kicked out by JJ to join his brother in the boys' room and there they remained til our first house flippening so poor beleagured eldest could have his own room XD
Yay for crawlinating :D
Ohh hun... she flipping fell off the bed the other day! 😭😭😭😭 one minute I'm getting kicked in the ribs the next shes on the floor screaming 😭😭😭😭😭
I'm actually not over it yet. Have barely slept since cos I'm paranoid she's gonna fall off again even though we put a baby mattress, pillows, blankets and a bean bag around the bed now.
I think the sidecar idea might work for us! Shes definitely too big for the co sleeper bassinet now. It's way too easy for her to fall out of it.
Love that you guys co slept with your kids until they were ready to sleep in their own (except for the youngest lol) I'd like to be able to do that.
As it is she cant have a nap without me attached to her.
Been there done that with middle and youngest, they practically lived in a sling for the first year XD
Like so. That's middle child from 2007 when I first figured out how to backsling (photo was taken with my iMac camera to show my partner XD).
Awww look at how cute you both are!! 😍😍😍😍😍
We've been using the structured carrier again. I thought she was in it too much so decided to put her to sleep in bed. But shes been finicky lately so back in the carrier she went. Like this arvo.