I made similar mistakes with my first two children but then I learned my lesson. You must always have an exit strategy! This is a classic rookie mistake made all that much funnier by the fact that he actually climbed into the crib. Priceless.
ht to RightWingVideo
December 22, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Hahahaha…that is hilarious! I can totally see my husband doing that with our future children! That must be one large crib! I wonder if he gave up and just fell asleep in the crib with his child….and what the mother thought when she walked in to check the baby!
December 22, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Classic.
December 22, 2009 at 5:07 pm
My first son would never fall asleep. We'd rock and rock and rock him. Even if he fell asleep, as soon as you laid him down he wake and wail. Eventually, we reached a milestone where we were able to put him down (awake) and rock quietly by ourselves. The flip side was he would cry for us to "sit in chair" until he fell asleep. That took over and hour each night. This lasted until he was five.
Some good came out of it. I discovered Catholic Podcasting and knocked out I don't know how many Rosaries.
With the birth of our second son, the cycle was broken! The big brother had to give up “sit in chair” because we had to rock the baby. Son #2 is great! Put him down with a kiss and walk out. Oh, he'll be up for an hour playing, but won't cry for Mommy or Daddy. See ya kid! Jeopardy is on!
December 22, 2009 at 6:11 pm
That's hysterical. The scary thing is that looks just like our crib. Had I attempted what that dad did though, the crib would probably be in a thousand pieces now.
December 22, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Oh, and I so rarely actually laugh out loud! I love the way she (or he?) snuggles right across his chest so there's NO WAY he's going anywhere…so funny if you're not in his position at the time. Glad he has enough humor to post this, though 🙂
December 22, 2009 at 8:09 pm
This, my friend, is precisely why we got rid of our crib after number 3. Our six children always won. Neither of us can stand the sound of a crying child, so our solution was the family bed. This video was an absolute crack up!
December 22, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Cute! I'm not sure what the "mistake" is supposed to be though, and I have three kids. Physical contact with parents is a need that babies and children have, and it's as real and as important as their need for food or water.
December 22, 2009 at 9:29 pm
The family bed is more comfortable than the "family crib". For some "inexplicable" reason, children like to sleep snuggled on their parents. As a parent – enjoy it! It doesn't last forever.
December 22, 2009 at 9:53 pm
I can't believe he got into the crib! That's hysterical! It would have been so much easier just to tuck the baby in with him on a larger mattress and read a book until she falls asleep. Then you just roll away and get up. Much lower stress than whatever pretzel manuever it must have taken to get out of the crib. I'm not even sure I would know how to do it with out getting stuck straddling the side.
December 22, 2009 at 10:16 pm
That must be one sturdy crib!
December 22, 2009 at 10:54 pm
That's hysterical!
December 22, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Does this family regularly video tape their child sleeping? I can understand a camera (sort of), but recorded video saved for posterity?
Humorous, but I would call this an attempt for 10 seconds of internet fame, not a mistake.
December 23, 2009 at 5:00 am
When will parents learn? The family bed is fantastic. Baby is happy and Mom and Dad sleep comfortably. Funny video though…
December 23, 2009 at 12:59 pm
What a real man and father would do- his daughter came first. He knew that she needed him, so he stayed with her
December 23, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Agnes, You obviously don't have kids yet. Now his daughter expects to sleep with him EVERY night! You can actually train kids to sleep in their cribs and it's not that difficult, honestly! Willmot's…family bed? Are you serious? I'm not opposed to letting our 3 year old fall asleep in the middle when he's sick or something but it's a bad bad idea to make it a regular occurence. In fcat it's dangerous with an infant. When did everybody get so weird about kids sleeping by themselves???
December 24, 2009 at 4:45 am
Some of us who do have kids are quite happy with them expecting to sleep with us every night. It is quite convenient and requires to crying, no "training." And just because we start out together doesn't mean mom or dad can't quietly leave for another room if desired. My kids are old enough to kick me, so after they fall asleep, I move into my own space. Why should the smallest and most vulnerable members of a family have to sleep alone?
Most of the world is weird about kids sleeping by themselves.
December 27, 2009 at 2:47 am
It is a real need for the child to feel the presence of others when going to sleep. It is NOT dangerous for babies. I did a review of all the studies done of this; the only one which found more infant deaths in the sleep with group was an Australian study which had upper class families who put the kid in a cot(crib) and aborigines who drank, smoked and were ill nourished who slept with theirs. Any reasonably matched study found fewer infant deaths when babies slept with their mothers. The mothers breathing actually stimulates the infant to breathe.
As for toddlers like this, the child's behavior is completely natural. Why should a tiny little thing sleep alone and two adults get to snuggle? To most of the world, THAT is disturbing.
Sometimes I put mine to sleep in their own beds if that worked out without stress, but they could always crawl in ours as long as they wanted to. That way we had a few nights when we started out the night alone. Other nights, I fell asleep nursing in our bed and the baby just stayed there. Often the toddler would be snuggling on the other side. Sometimes several siblings slept together in one bed by choice also, even thought there were enough beds to go around, but the toddlers usually were in bed with us by the end of the night. Somehow we found enough time alone to conceive nine kids!
Susan Peterson