Question for Amby hammock mums (and dads)
Hi all,
We have been using the Amby hammock since DD was born. She's mostly a good sleeper, although she doesn't like leaving the party. (A bit like me, really.)
DD is now nearly six months and about 6.5 kg. The Amby website says babies can use the hammock up to 11 kg or until they can get up on all fours. I've been watching her closely and each week I think it's time to move her into a cot but it's just so easy to rock the hammock when she's unsettled. DP just swings a leg out over the side of the bed and gives it a bit of a push on the odd occasion when she cries in the night. However, in the last few days she's been arching her back and turning onto her side in the hammock. Once I put a dummy in her mouth she usually flops back onto her back.
We are due to move to Singapore at the end of the week. I first thought we'd take the portacot and use that until our stuff arrives in a few weeks time. I thought we'd start using the cot this week to "train" her. But we've had a bit of an unsettled week. She's teething, I think, and it's just so easy to stand by the hammock and rock her. She will settle there but not in my arms.
Does anyone have any advice? Any guestimate of when the arched rolling onto the back could turn into a dangerous trying to get up on all fours in the hammock? She's not showing much interest in getting up on all fours during the day. She can't sit unsupported yet, either. And she's not really left alone in the hammock. In Singapore we'll be in a hotel room and DP will be there with her all the time. Maybe I'm just worrying a bit too much over this.
Thanks in advance.