I woke up the other morning and went to check on baby Alex as usual. Well, there was a suprise that day. She had somehow rotated herself ninety degrees so her feet were pointing toward the side of the crib and had wiggled herself down until her legs were sticking through the crib slats.
I don’t just mean her legs were sticking through a little, I mean all the way to her thighs. At first I was kind of freaked out about it, but when I checked on her, I realized that she was fine and had not hurt herself.
When I mentioned it to my wife, she said “Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you, she did that yesterday too”. Now, I know the baby didn’t hurt herself since the slats were far enough apart, not to cut off her circulation or anything like that, but I was still worried that she would eventually hurt herself.
It then suddenly occurred to me why people put bumpers in cribs. We didn’t have any bumpers since the doctor and the Infant CPR class we took said they are dangerous due to suffocation possibilities. So now I was stumped. I needed bumpers, but am hyper protective of little Alexandria and I wasn’t Continue reading ‘Baby Alex sticks her legs through crib slats’