Challenge #1

Baby Jayne has encountered the very first challenge in her life thus far.

GETTING USED TO A NEW BED.

I know how tough that is for some adults even, so I’m not complaining. Apparently, mattresses have different softness and those from Mothercare and Ikea are obviously different.

The mattress Baby Jayne sleeps on at home is from Ikea. We bought her cot from them, so the mattress has to be from there as well (Clever Ikea makes their cots in such custom sizes that we have no choice but to buy the mattress la!). The mattress in the office nursery is from Mothercare and can you believe it, ever since she started joining the office nursery last Thursday, she has not slept in that cot yet!

The workers have managed to carry and pat her to sleep in their arms, but the moment they put her down into the cot, she starts to wail. Even if they did succeed in putting her in, she wakes up after at most 1 hour. Sigh.

As part of their drastic measures to get her to sleep more, the workers started putting her into this rocking chair which automatically rocks her continuously until she falls asleep. There was one day she was asleep in that thing for 5 consecutive hours! She had gotten so comfortable in it that even without the rocking movement, she falls asleep in it herself.

Of course, I would want her to get as much sleep as possible, but I do hope that she can sleep in the cot instead of in a rocking chair. The rocking chair is in the common area where all the toddlers and babies gather, so it’s very bright, noisy & rowdy most of the time. Even if Baby Jayne is asleep, I think it’s very disturbed sleep. (I would scream if I have to sleep in that environment!) The room with the cots is totally different – dark, cool and basically a super nice environment to sleep in.

I can only pray that Baby Jayne can start getting used to her new bed and sleep peacefully in it soon!