And so it begins

Movement. The ability to roll one's self from back to front, and all the freedom that comes with it. Only, I was hoping it wouldn't happen so fast.

I am probably one of the only parents that is not trying to rush her first born on to the next milestone. After being a nanny for two wonderful girls, I can understand with a better clarity
, that the sooner the next milestone, the sooner your little baby finds its way away from you. Also every parent of a little boy smiles and tells me I will soon understand the difference between boys and girls. "Just wait until he's mobile", they say.

Last night Cillian flipped himself from front to back four times. Initially, when Chris and I discussed the "rolls" quietly in bed at 5:30am, so as not to wake the barely asleep baby, we said he rolled twice but eventually we realized that he rolled twice for EACH of us. I thought perhaps this was a "playpen" thing and started making plans to have him sleep in his crib. I started to wonder if we could move the crib without taking it apart, and then during his morning nap, in his crib this time, he flipped again. And then while playing on his activity mat on hardwood floors, he flipped again. I can't explain away all these rolls, so folks it's official. We have a mobile baby.

With this newfound movement comes complete, almost paralyzing, fear, because wee babies are supposed to sleep on their back.  I wouldn't be lying if I told you I have been on every nation's SIDS website to calm my fears about the whole situation, and every website tells me that if a baby can flip himself over he will be fine, just to continue to place him to sleep on his back every time and he can find his own position.  But what if my baby is the one exception to that rule??

Along with the rolling comes the screams of frustration, because he can't flip back over.  He's sort of a reverse turtle.  Why, oh why couldn't he just stay happily on his back? Oh right, because he's my kid, and if he's anything like me then you tell him no and he finds a way around it.  sigh.

Happy Wednesday!