Here's a new reason not to use the cry-it-out method when baby can't get to sleep at night: Maybe she's wailing because there's
a snake in her crib.
Last week, a New York mom was visiting relatives in Long Island and went to check on her agitated seven-month-old daughter in the middle of the night. That's when she discovered a foot-long California king snake wrapped around the child's leg. Mom picked up the baby and the snake immediately uncoiled itself, thereby putting an end to the girl's crying. (Go figure.) The creature, which is non-venemous, was eventually captured and turned over to animal control officials.
How the heck that reptile got into the kid's crib in the first place remains a mystery. The mother, Cari Abatemarco, thinks the snake might have been in a mattress her parents recently purchased, which would make total sense if they bought said Serta at a Mattress Warehouse in the middle of the Amazon. Otherwise, I'm still perplexed by the whole thing.
I do know this, though. Upon hearing about this incident, Samuel L. Jackson reportedly said: "I have had it with these mother@#!*ing snakes in these mother@#!*ing cribs!"
"Snakes in a Crib." Now there's an idea for a movie.
Photo: Hogle Zoo
