The Baby Commandments: Number Three

Thou shalt ridicule thy long-winded sleep rituals by instantly falling asleep when thou doth not wish me to...

I am sure that every family with a young baby has their preferred sleep rituals.

These can be

long winded (bath, followed by story, followed by mik etc etc),

slow (doing laps of the house or walking up and down stairs until little'un succumbs),

bizarre (putting an already tired baby into a jumperoo or

down-right uncomfortable (allowing your baby to squeeze and pummel your nose / cheek / chin [delete as applicable] with their fiendishly strong fingers until they fall into a slumber).

Of course, there are those times when you want to head out for a pub lunch, and you pop your baby down for 30 seconds whilst you grab the changing bag and she falls instantly into an almost coma like sleep.

It's done purely to spite us. Honestly.

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The Baby commandments: Number One
The Baby Commandments: Number Two

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I'd be interested to hear what other baby commandments you think should form part of this series and I will try and blip them too (unless they involve crying, then I will fail as Lyra is a wonderful but strange baby who doesn't cry unless you stick big needles into her - and I'm not doing that for the sake of Blip..)