Dead or Alive?
It’s a new kind of scary when you look into your 6-month-old son’s crib in the morning to find him lying on his stomach for the first time. And it wasn’t a comfortable, “I’m just sleeping”, lying on the stomach. No, it looked like a body found on the streets of one of the many television crime shows on nowadays.
Needless to say I quickly checked for vitals. However that was unecessary when TheMonk turned to look at me. His look said, “What? Can’t you see I’m sleeping here?”
Filed under: Babies,Milestones,TheMonk — Childsplayx2, Copyright (c) 2005-12 @ 7:27 am Comments (11)
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Been there, done that. Even now at three years of age (them, not me) I find myself doing that.
Comment by Kemp — December 8, 2005 @ 9:31 am
Cool! It won’t be the last time he freaks you out. Today is John Lennon’s and his cousin Tommy’s birthday. Just in case he forgot.
Comment by Grandmother — December 8, 2005 @ 10:39 am
I probably think one of my kids is dead at least once a week. I’m not proud of this.
Comment by Sarah — December 8, 2005 @ 11:16 am
get out the white tape!
we let ours sleep on her stomach every night, pSAs be damned.
Comment by Dutch — December 8, 2005 @ 12:33 pm
I hear, brother.
Comment by MIM — December 8, 2005 @ 1:17 pm
it’s hard not to check them every couple of hours isn’t it. Wifey and I still do it.
Comment by Chocolate Makes it Better — December 8, 2005 @ 8:19 pm
I once read a book in which a woman woke one morning to discover that her high-need, very challenging child had, for the first time, slept through the night. Her response? She sat down at the kitchen table and had a quiet morning cup of coffee, her first in over a year. If he’d died in the night, she reasoned, she’d need the fortification, and another fifteen minutes wouldn’t make any difference.
I just about peed myself laughing. (Did I mention my first was colicky? I was sooo there.)
Comment by Mary — December 9, 2005 @ 4:25 am
Isn’t it freaky? I’m glad I’m not the only one who jumps to that conclusion.
Comment by surcie — December 9, 2005 @ 11:08 am
Wait until one of your kids has the first bloody nose during the night and wakes up looking like a CSI crime scene.
Just wait.
Comment by Susan — December 9, 2005 @ 7:48 pm
I’ve done that. It’s weird to see them in a totally uncomfortable-looking pose.
Comment by KC — December 11, 2005 @ 7:28 pm
Even with my 5th child I still did that.
Comment by Julie — December 16, 2005 @ 9:20 am