I have a friend who has a 12-month-old baby she still manages to wrap at bedtime.
Now either I'm just no good at wrapping babies or my eight-month-old is going to be a wrestler when he grows up.
It has been months since I have been able to keep him wrapped snugly, like a bug in a rug.
In winter it worried me because I thought he would get too cold out of his blankets through the night and wake up sick and miserable.
But now he is crawling, rolling, spinning and wriggles around like a worm on a hook, he often ends up facing the complete wrong way in his cot.
Sometimes I even find him sound asleep with limbs dangling out the slats in it.
One night last week he was particularly restless.
I put him down to bed and waited for him to settle before I headed to work.
It took a few minutes, but he eventually grew quiet.
Instead of just kissing his daddy and big brother goodbye and jumping in the car, I went back to check he had actually made it to the Land of Nod.
Lucky I did, because I found him upside down with all his bedclothes over his head and his little legs kicking around like crazy.
My heart skipped a beat when I realised how easily he could have been struggling for air, or worse, but as I hurriedly pulled the blankets and sheets back, he giggled at me and continued kicking at the mattress.
Obviously that was a sign of excitement rather than distress, as I first thought.
Ever since he was born, P2 has loved things on or over his face.
He will pull T-shirts up over his head, blankets, toys, cloth books, his chubby little hands, you name it, he will try and balance it on his forehead and cover his eyes and airways.
I don't even know if it is normal, I only have P1 to gauge `normality' in our household and I don't recall him ever doing it.
P2 likes things against his face so much, that in bed at night he flips onto his belly, but instead of his head facing to one side, he buries his face straight into the mattress.
And it STRESSES ME OUT!
He is too strong for wraps, tightly-tucked blankets and probably even ocky straps, so short of dressing him in a straightjacket I'm fresh out of ideas.
I guess the hot summer nights are on their way, so a bed with minimal covers won't matter.
And hopefully by the time winter rolls around again my baby might just have got those ants out of his pants.
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