It's MIL's birthday tomorrow so FIL bought a cake. He was carrying RaeAnne while trying to open the box but he had problem cos there was a scotchtape sealing the cake box edge. He was struggling to open it and RaeAnne arched back, he tried to recover his position and catch hold of her again but he failed. Seeing my bb gal swinging in the mid air with no support, stopped my heart for nearly 5 secs. I did not realise that she was falling fast enough cos was looking down at something. Luckily, hubby jumped up from the armchair fast enough and caught hold of her. PHEW!!! All of us were so traumatized after that esp my FIL, my heart was still thumping hard 10sec after it happened but RaeAnne didn't even whimper or cry. She just looked at us with curious eyes like "what's the fuss?" when all of us took turns to hug her tight to reassuring her after that incident esp. FIL. From that height about 1.66m, if she had fallen and hit the low cabinets, it would have been disastrous. I don't even dare to think about it. Heng, nothing happened. Think everyone esp my (usually super careful and paranoid) FIL learnt our lessons, never be complacent cos you won't know when bb will pull a stunt like this. :P
On a side note, we moved RaeAnne from her little bedside cot to the big cot last Friday night, 25 Jul. Went through one hour of agony with Raeanne crying and screaming till she's hoarse cos I tried putting her in the big cot in bb room to sleep on her own. She was getting too big for the arms reach bassinet, can alresdy put one arm and one leg over, will climb out soon. Put up and put down so many times also no use cos she just could not calm down. In the end, I caved in and nursed her to sleep then transfer her to the big cot. Bo bian, too many things for her to unlearn in one night I think. She was still panting so hard when latching on, so heart pain to see her so distressed. Think bb should sleep in their own room cos they have to learn to sleep alone anyway, should have bite the bullet and done it after i went back to work even if still doing night feeds. But of course bu she de cos she looks very cute when sound asleep esp when she smiles.
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kitsune, think it is STILL relatively a bit too early for RaeAnne to learn to sleep in her own room bah. 6months nia...still very young la. Mother them more and listen to your maternal instincts. If u feel heartpain and she's crying until like that, she's probably not ready, let baby lead the way. :) Dont worry, u wont spoil them. Wait until they can understand, then reason with them not too late. U imagine it yourself, as a baby, all she knows is she wants mommy. All along, so cosy sleep right next to u, all of a sudden, u wan her to sleep in big cot in another room, of cos she suddenly feel scared. Too big transition liao. Take it slowly, no need to succumb to society's ways of "training" kids to be independent. HUGZ
Mylife, I would have upgraded her to a big cot and continue to put her in my bedroom but my bedroom is really very small and it won't fit lor. So, bo bian lor. She's getting better now though, that day she even slept from 10+pm to 5+am without crying for milk, we were so surprised. :)
oh...in her own room? Tat's nice! well done! :))
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