Scott & Jo's!!! Blog

On her playmat at home, she usually ends up with her head jammed up against the wall. Yesterday, she made the effort to move about 30cm forward from where I put her (I guess using her version of crawling!) and promptly fell asleep due to the massive effort she put in (See photo below)! I didn’t have the heart to move her to her cot even though it was `nap time’. She woke up pretty soon after I took the photo though, probably due to the fact that carpet doesn’t make the most comfortable pillow!

In her cot, she likes to move around alot and now I know why they (they as in the `people that supposedly know’) tell you not to put toys into the cot with the baby! I found her several times in a very close conversation with the teddy bear, turtle and bunny rabbits in her cot, just a few of the stuffed toys that keep her company. I don’t however, understand why they don’t want us to use cot bumpers. Now that she is on the move, she has banged her head several times on the side of the cot, an event that usually ends in a high pitched wail of pain. She also is very talented at trapping an arm or leg between the bars of the cot, once again ending the adventure with desperate cries for freedom! And yes, mummy always comes to the rescue! Yesterday, we went to a shop to buy the aforementioned cot bumper. Did you know you buy them in halves? Yes, what you buy only covers half the perimeter of the cot! I don’t understand that myself, but I’m sure that there is a reason for it. Our beautiful daughter proved why half a cot bumper is absolutely useless within about 30min of us installing it…she wriggled her way UP the cot and THEN proceeded to roll to the side to bump her head! Go figure…