To want to detach my arm...

[vvviola]

... and leave it for DD2 to cuddle

She's 2 this week, and I've been in her room with her for the past hour (nearly midnight here) trying to get her back to sleep. She will only sleep on my arm for some odd reason (she's never been a great sleeper but even for her this level of limpet-ness is unusual)

Bad enough on a normal night, but I've 800 words of a sociology paper to finish by tomorrow afternoon & I'm meant to be studying.

Gah.... Getting pins & needles now!

Any tried and tested methods for detaching from limpet-toddlers?

I got into bed with and cuddled with a big thick blanket and said I wouldn't go until dd2 said so.

After about 5 minutes of overheating she would say "that's enough mummy you can go now"

Am aware that this can backfire....

DH has a false arm - it really wouldn't work

Treas - sorry. My post must have come across dreadfully.

(I have managed to extract my arm from under limpet-toddler. She is now wriggling to be closed to my arm every time I move away!)

Lol I used to want to detach my arm at that stage- through Trees dH would no doubt tell me to be careful what I wish for.

Snuggle a teddy in between her and your arm and after a while withdraw arm, leaving teddy. Teddy needs to be appropriately squidgy and ideally smell of mummy. Little blanket wrapped round the pair of them usually completes the set.

Or you offer your leg. I found leg worked well, me on sofa with feet up, limpet child at foot end. DH fetching cups of tea as I was immobilised. Do you have any nice snugly socks?

Sorry to say this usually means they are about to go down with a bug, just in time for the new school term...

I have some spare prosthesis that she could have. Varying in size from about 6 months to about 7 years...

vvviola - no worries.

My own dd was permanently on my lap during the day from 12 months to 24 months I couldn't move from the sofa for most of the day, so I can completely empathise with you. As a result she started nursery a couple of mornings at 2 y.o. For both our sanity.

Unfortunately, doesn't help you. How about Ross from Friends hug and roll technique :)

She's at it again...

At least I handed my essay in, but I can't even get in the bed with her and just go to sleep as every time I lie down she starts shouting "Mummy wake up"

Am about to deploy hug & roll technique...