Mom Checks Baby Cam After 10 Mins, ‘Cannot Deal’ With What Toddler Is Doing

A mom was left in hysterics at the sight that greeted her on the baby cam, just 10 minutes after she had put her infant daughter to bed.

Holly Sansom, 30, from Plymouth in the U.K., didn’t notice anything was wrong when she and partner Jack Rundle, 30, put their 9-month-old daughter Nora to bed that night. “We put her to sleep as usual, came upstairs and switched the monitor on,” Sansom told Newsweek.

It is not uncommon for new parents to experience the occasional bit of bedtime drama. In a survey conducted for a study published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 42 percent of parents with young children said they had experienced some form of “bedtime resistance.”

However, as Sansom turned on the baby cam to see how Nora was settling down, she saw her daughter putting up a little “bedtime resistance” of her own, with a little dramatic flair thrown in for good measure.

“She was sitting up in her cot, just silently waiting for us to come back in,” Sansom said. “I filmed her as I thought it was so funny. She just sat looking like she was contemplating life.”

Sansom ended up sharing the video to her TikTok account @hollyjacknora. “It’s the hands for me,” she wrote alongside the clip. “She was asleep, then all of a sudden she’s staring at the door waiting for me to come back. I cannot deal with her. My heart.”

Though Nora may have looked worried about her mom and dad’s absence, Sansom said that, soon after she stopped filming, she headed back to her daughter’s room and “put her back to sleep.”

Sansom has been sharing parenting videos focusing on her life with partner and their daughter for some time now. “It started off as just for fun, but the first video we posted, which was of the three of us, went viral straight away,” Sansom told Newsweek. “I just want to build a little community and see where it takes us really.”

This latest video has proven popular, racking up over 635,000 views and counting.

Explaining this latest clip’s popularity, Sansom said: “I think it’s relatable to many parents who have had the same thing.”

Though Nora appears restless that night, Sansom said little has changed about her bedtime routine in the time since. “We usually just go by her cues,” she added. “Nora does what Nora wants.”

Even so, Sansom is definitely keeping a closer eye on the baby cam most evenings. “I feel like I’m glued to the monitor now especially as she can now sit up from being laid down by herself,” she said.

This may not be the last we hear of Nora’s nighttime antics.