beddy-bye

When my daughter was a baby, she developed a very close connection with her Beddy-Bye Ernie.

The phrase is comparable to the American English "beddy-bye". '

Beddy-bye was, of course, his couch of pain and humiliation where I lay writhing in agonies of assumed Jewish guilt and Northern Baptist stress as he from time to time muttered, "A fruitcake remark!"