Sleep in style

They say that one's sleeping style tells a lot about the person and his insecurities. I guess it's what makes a person feels safest and most comfortable. A newborn babe must be swaddled otherwise will cry herself hoarse, scared of the fact that she actually has limbs that flail. And that a foetal position implies that a person is tough on the outside but pretty much a big softie on the inside. And lying on your front with your hands around the pillow, and your head turned to one side. Often gregarious and brash people, but can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath, and don't like criticism, or extreme situations.

But I've found little to explain what it means when the sleeper takes something and covers their face with it. Why I wonder about all this is because the twins have the strangest sleeping position.

Baby J will sleep in more or less a foetal position but with her favourite stuffed animal over her face. I used to think it was to prevent us from getting to her pacifier. But I really don't know. From young, she used to do an ostrich thing and stick her head into the crook of my arm or whomever was carrying her to sleep. Now that she sleeps on her own, the stuffed animal goes atop her face. Those who worry about her breathing, she seems to do it just fine. Packrat says she has the cutest Face Hugger around.




The picture is blured because the room is darkened and I didn't want to switch on any lights for fear that the munchkin beneath the Face Hugger might be woken and angered.

Evan on the other hand, will sleep freefalling and I sometimes think he dreams of freefalling. His new favourite way of sleeping is to sleep perpendicular to the cot and have his legs dangle off the sides in a pseudo standing position. I don't know how he manages to not cut off the blood supply to his legs but he can sleep like that for a better part of the night and has slept his entire nap in that position with his legs not just under the rails but wedged tightly between the rails of the be that you see on the right of the cot.




Someone told me that a baby's muscles were still at the stage where they didn't ache or get strained. That's why they didn't get stiff necks and apparently, pins and needles in the legs...although that might have a little more to do with circulation. On occasion, when the boy is feeling a bit needy, he uses his feet to search me out, to see if I'm still lying on the mattress between their cots. And then, he will press his foot onto which ever part of me he makes contact with and keep it there to prevent me from moving.

Such ploys to keep Mommy around.

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