What am I talking about specifically? Little man has graduated from the Snoo.
When I bought that thing there were a few people who thought I was crazy for spending several hundred quid on a used bassinet, and I'm sure that my partner was one of them, but it was something I knew that I wanted and it wasn't worth anyone arguing with me. We saw it working before we took it home with us, and actually I was pleasantly surprised by everything that came with it for the price - two sleeping bags in each of the three sizes, anti-colic legs and about four mattress covers as well as the dust bag for the whole thing, and all for around a third of the price of just the bassinet by itself brand new. It wasn't just that it felt like a bargain, but it felt like an opportunity to sleep more than we would without it and I firmly believe that we got that from it. It was so important that it even came with us on Little Man's first holiday to Yorkshire, but that was mainly because it was what he was used to and he had already fallen out with the bassinet by then so we weren't really too excited to see how he reacted to a travel cot.
When the midwives visited us, and the health visitor, they were all a bit sceptical, and some were more keen than others to be open to the idea, because when you say it swaddles the baby and restrains them that sounds pretty scary, but it's just that they're "clipped" in so that the motion of the bassinet doesn't move them too much. It plays them white noise, it rocks them and it "listens" for them being disturbed. If it can settle them back down, great, and if not, it stops and it notifies your phone to say it's stopped, which worked well as a baby monitor when he started sleeping through the night and going to bed earlier, because we didn't need to be perfectly in hearing range. We could actually go out into our garden!
But all good things come to an end and at six months, a certain weight limit or when the baby can roll, they need to come out of it, and Little Dude is now rolling, so out he had to go. It was also kind of important to me to get him used to the cot before we go and see My Chemical Romance at the end of the month because he can't come with us sadly (yes, I would have taken him, as long as he had his ear defenders on) so will need to be babysat, and I wanted that to be as easy as it can be on all of us.
The little guy isn't yet six months, though that's coming in a couple of days, but he is rolling and had taken to kicking the crap out of the end of the Snoo, and I wasn't sure how well it would take to that.
It's only been a few nights and it's not been perfectly plain sailing - he's gone from sleeping through the night to a couple of wake ups, but that happened before he came out of the Snoo so was not solely down to the change - but he's still sleeping pretty damn well and it means we get our room back, the Snoo can retire to the loft (once all of the sleeping bags have been washed) and we're moving towards our next milestone, which is either sitting or crawling.
And I get to feel bad that the six month mark has rolled around so quickly that we've STILL not decorated the nursery. I can kind of understand why people do it before the baby arrives now, because I feel like I blinked and these six months have gone by...
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