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My daughter scares me

Skills and Milestones

My daughter is 8 months old.

She started crawling at 6 months and is now standing and cruising on her own.

This fast development started a whole new regiment before nighttime sleep.

She settles into her sleeping position and falls asleep within 10 minutes. We co-sleep, so when I nestle in beside her she then starts her ritual:

She crawls over my face, crawls along the walls, get herself to a standing position against the wall, cruises along the wall, and full on launches herself on top of my face. All of this happens as she is sleeping. The first night she did this, she bonked her head against mine with full force then she went on sleeping as if nothing happened.

I was a heavy sleeper my whole life.

Now, I sleep with one eye open because I need to be ready to drag her back to her sleeping position before she hurts anyone.

Posted Sep 29, 2026, 2:31 AM UTC

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