Ryan Reynolds jokes that baby James “is allergic to sleep”

LIKE many new parents, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are in desperate need of some shut-eye!

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 05: Actors Blake Lively (L) and Ryan Reynolds attend the "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

LIKE many new parents, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are convinced their baby is “allergic to sleep”.

Reynolds and his wife are struggling to catch up on their shut eye after welcoming their first child, a girl named James, in December.

“Our baby, in particular, we think is allergic to sleep, so ... we joke that she thinks she’s protecting us from sleep monsters,” Reynolds told TV host Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.

“Like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to keep them up or the sleep monsters will get them!’”

Blake Lively while pregnant with James, with Ryan Reynolds at the 2014 Angel Ball.

The 38-year-old Green Lantern star said he tries using Baby Einstein videos to get his little girl to sleep.

“The trick I try to use is that Baby Einstein stuff but for me, that’s like horse tranquilliser ... I could go down on a lit stove, you could push me out of an aeroplane.”

But Reynolds admitted that the nine-week-old already “has me wrapped around her finger. I am a slave to the rhythm.”

- With AAP

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