I’ve been noticing that lots of people are joining up with Shae at Yay For Home by posting ‘Things I know‘ on their blog each week. I thought I might join the party today and write about something I know very, very well. You’ll be happy to know that I have researched and personally tried all of these things, and they are in fact quite effective.
If ever you think your baby is sleeping like an angel and you think she might rather be awake… Here are 16 ways to wake a sleeping baby! (Don’t try this at home)
1. Speak to their dadda on skype who is away for the weekend, make sure the volume is up nice and loud – then later once the baby is asleep, send an email. The outgoing mail sound will be sure to wake them.
2. Drop your book on their head.
3. Let dadda come to bed – his definition of quiet is my definition of be-as-noisy-as-you-can.
4. Have a cuddle. I swear babies have an intimacy radar.
5. If their intimacy radar is faulty, go to second base – that will get them!
6. Transfer them from the car to their bed when they fall asleep in the car.
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7. Go outside – baby could be sleeping wonderfully whilst you’re in the house but the minute you go to the car/letterbox/bin/clothesline and are out of earshot, I can gaurentee you’ll come back in to a crying baby.
8. Let your baby fall asleep on you then try and put them down in their bed. Always a winner, that one!
9. Cough, sneeze or move suddenly whilst sitting next to sleeping baby.
10. Yell at cat for drinking out of your water glass which is sitting on the bedside table next to sleeping baby.
11. Sit next to sleeping baby whilst blogging and tap away furiously at the computer keys – works best when you’ve thought of a really exciting blog topic. (How to give your baby radiation poisoning will have to be saved for another day.)
12. Dont let baby sleep during the day – she’ll be sure to wake from anything when she’s so wired at night time.
13. Make yourself a cup of tea, sigh, find a good magazine or blog to read, relax and look forward to enjoying some time out… Only when you’ve done all of these steps will the baby wake.
14. Let the cat jump up on the bed and try to snuggle with you. If the baby doesn’t wake just from the cat, she will when you try to shoo the cat away (our cat is very fat so her jumping onto the bed is usually enough).
15. Allow older children into the room to ask you a question – they suck at whispering!
16. Once you are both cuddled up in bed and the baby is asleep, realise that you actually need to go to the toilet – now try and get away.
Please note: I seem to have perfected these BUT if you are one of those parents who actually want your children to sleep then I suggest you do the opposite to me 
What would you add?
Alexandra
Ha, ha! Brilliant. All of those work. What doesn’t work is sanding the stairs with an electric sander and hoovering up the dust on the landing afterwards. Not so much as a murmur. Babies are not the most consistent of creatures!
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Hahaha I can just picture you trying your hardest!
you forgot deciding to grab a quick shower getting naked shower on one foot in and ta dah wide awake!
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Oh I know! Been there too! And it’s even worse when you’re actually in the middle of a shower… The dilemma of dripping all through the house but going to baby or finishing shower & drying whilst baby cries!
My child likes to wait until I have run a bath, added bubbles, removed all the toys (including a singing turtle – why did I buy that?), taken off all of my clothes and eased myself into the warm loveliness to wake up and yell ‘mammaaaaaa’ *sigh*
Try it … every time!
Haha yep! Every time! I saw just how much my life had changed when I realised I needed a babysitter just to have a relaxing bath!
Haha, number 15 is the one that always gets me! My 3 year old tends to shout as soon as I ask him to whisper or be quiet. I ended up having to yell at him to ask him to be quieter, which of course then wakes the baby! Toddlers and sleeping babies is a recipe for disaster
Haha I can just imagine a mum yelling at their kiddies to be quiet! Does baby brain still work as an excuse?
Fart!
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Hahahaha!
Very,very good. What about leaving all the doors open and turning up the door bell when the post man comes calling with a parcel.
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Yes! And I’ve recently learned a new one… Leaving the windows open while dadda is outside renovating (including the use of an electric saw)
I don’t know whether these ways work well or not. I just know babies are sometimes easy to wake up and sometimes hard. I’ve heard that if you want the baby to sleep well in the night, please keep him awake in the day time. I don’t know if it’s correct. But babies only a few months needs to sleep about 16 hours. So I think maybe we should let them sleep from 5pm to 9am the next morning. If it really works well, the parents could have a good dream.
I would have many lovely dreams if that were the case! Until then, I’ll just have to dream about it happening…