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My neighbor thinks I’m a massive Bonnie Tyler fan.

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Arsebucket · 06/07/2021 11:17

When baby dd was about 6 weeks old, she had a period of really bad colic. One evening, dh was waking in circles around the kitchen trying to comfort her when Total Eclipse Of The Heart came on the radio. Dd suddenly relaxed and fell asleep. Awww, we thought.

Next evening, more colicky crying. So this time, thinking anything was worth a shot, we asked siri to play it. By the end of the first verse, she was flat out.

Things escalated.

Dd is now 10 months old.

Every nap time, so up to three times a day, and sometimes before bedtime, I play that song in the kitchen and she’s out cold. I let the song play on before taking her off for her nap and just because I don’t want to wake her by barking at siri to be quiet. (I’m very lazy and my babies nap on me until they are quite big).

Yesterday my next door neighbor knocked on the door with a Bonnie Tyler mug she’d found in a charity shop as a present for me.

NDN is lovely. But she must think I’m crazy Grin

and poor dd will either grow up to find that bloody song a massive comfort or she will hate it with a passion!

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Phantasmo · 06/07/2021 13:13
Grin

Your neighbour sounds lovely. I bet she mutters at the wall 'for fuck's sake would it kill you to play Holding Out For a Hero just ONCE'.

Arsebucket · 06/07/2021 14:09

DD just dropped off for her post lunch nap with the help of Bonnie Grin

She might go to sleep to anything now, but she’s my third and if I’ve learned anything as a parent, it’s if something works, keep doing it!

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