To want to chop of Ewans front right leg (the harp)

[Jellybabie3]

My son is currently going through the 4 month sleep regression and waking every hour. Every feed and settle is a battle. At 4am this morning i successfully got DS to sleep with Ewan doing his thing with DS's preferred back right leg. I was in the process of lifting DS back into his bed when Ewan decided to go to sleep. In sheer panic I grabbed Ewan and hit the blasted harp. DS wide awake for another hour. I may as well of shook a tamborine in his ear.

FFS.

I get there is a certain degree of operator incompentency going on but as all babies have a preferred leg I do feel there needs to be a safety lock or something on the others. In the mean time I am considering scissors.

Rant over.

[farfallarocks]

I love that harp leg. Oh the memories

[balalalala]

The myhummy has different sounds to ewan. I thought they were rubbish when we first got it, but dd made the transition with no fuss and likes their heartbeat version. She used to like the back right leg of ewan before! It was expensive, and the fact that it needs new batteries almost every month adds up, but if I'd known how much more sleep I'd get, I'd of paid double!

[Chienrouge]

Tobebythesea they are slightly different, as we learned when DD1’s purple one broke and I replaced it with the grey one, expecting them to be the same. She was not impressed. That was the point at which she weaned off Ewan (still going strong with DD2 aged 2.5!)

[MoonriseKingdom]

Front right leg is our leg of choice - DD now 16 months and happily is now asleep in one Ewan cycle. Going on holiday Ewan is top of my packing list. The idea of forgetting it gives me cold chills.

[Tobebythesea]

Vanillaradio- Lol! We get over the monitor in the middle of the night, “Baa Baa black sheep on?”

[DuggeeHugs]

Ewan failed to soothe DS - just appeared to annoy him so was quickly retired. He came out of retirement for DD, but she manages ok on her own and I couldn't stand the thought of listening to any of the legs again.

Going back to OPs point - YWNBU to chop off the offending leg.

[Tobebythesea]

Which Ewan have you got? We’ve got the one with the grey face but there is a purple one. Do they play different songs?

[ADrabLittleCrab]

Ha ha, I will back up Pugwalls with the probably unwanted news....ds is 5 and still goes to sleep with Ewan harp music!!!

[help1978]

White noise baby in App Store by TM Soft

I'm sure there's loads though! X

[Vanillaradio]

The harp one was the only one ds actually liked. He was completely terrified of the other three and would arch his back and scream if they were played! We got Freddie Frog instead in the end, he played for much longer (he had rainforest and heartbeat too but again ds only liked the music)
When ds got old enough to talk he called Ewan "Baa Baa noise".

[Jellybabie3]

@help1978 which app?

[MrsPussinBoots]

YABU. I'm on Ewan #2 with DD(4) because she loves that leg. Can't easily get to sleep without it - it's even been to Disneyland twice. Ewans leg works the magic on me too.

[help1978]

Get the app! It's free and will play all night plus you can increase volume on it to settle baby quicker....Ewan's not loud enough.

[Choccyhobnob]

Our harp leg broke after pressing it every 20 mins for months.... at 2.5 years I now play 8 hours of harp music on youtube on my ipod in DS room!

[mamamalt]

I think the answer here is a Ewan remote control. As he goes to sleep you can hit him up from across the room/the landing/the sofa and baby is none the wiser!
My DS (16mo) has two Ewan. Both of which no longer work or need new batteries but he sleeps with them anyway as he is a big fan of their little soft ears 😁

[Jellybabie3]

@ElspethFlashman 😂

[GeekyBlinders]

Yes yes get the app. We still use the womb noise setting on 3 year old DS, mainly to stop him being disturbed when we come up to bed.

[PugwallsSummer]

Both of my DD's love Ewan's front right leg! DD1 is 5 and she still listens to the harp as she goes off to sleep...

You might not have wanted to hear that. Sorry 😳😂

[Lifeofpies]

This made me smile. Such memories.
DS is four and still goes to sleep with Ewan (harp!), and puts it on himself in the night. I wake up every morning to it coming through the monitor...

[ElspethFlashman]

Yes we do that: "not too bad tonight, just two sheeps"

Which means half a fucking hour. That's our "good". 😭

[yaaass]

Hahaha this thread is so funny.

Front right leg crew 4 Eva

DC has had it on every single night from about 2 weeks til now (age two) and yes echo previous poster about judging how bad sleep was on the amount of cycles... a lot of frantic texts to husband in the early days '3 Ewan's and he's still going!'

[Jellybabie3]

@RainyDayBear hmm i have a app but not with combined noises - have to do sone searching. The leg DS likesis a heartbeat and washing machine apparently

[JudgementalSquirrel]

Oooops, I meant front left! The rainy one.

[help1978]

I gave my Ewan away at 4 months and used a white noise app on my phone/iPad played through a speaker next to cot all night.....
Life changing! Try it! X

[KNain]

I ended up wrapping a hair bobble* round the 'heartbeat' leg because of too many late night panicky wrong button presses.

I spent eleventy-billion hours on a monitor while in labour, so virtually my entire labour was spent listening to the constant noise of DS's heartbeat. So what was the noise DS found most soothing? Yep, the fucking heartbeat - it just brought back memories of being in labour for me!!




*Ewan wasn't actually in the cot and DS did grow out of him before he was old enough to hold/play with toys, so no choking risk.