Today baby and I got down to business. With him properly positioned on his blanket on the floor we began to baby massage our way through The Manual. The whole point of the exercise is for both parent and child to relax and bond but I have to admit that as much as we did bond it wasn't that zen yet. Keeping his interest up and his thoughts of milk down was a bit of a challenge especially since I had to repeatedly refer back to the book on what to do next. If I were to draw a graph of the experience it would start with a gently upward sloping curve of interest, then a downward one, a surprising peak of excitement, and finally quite a steep downward spiral of hunger taking over. Though at first he didn't seem to fully get why I was massaging (read: poking) him with strange strokes, he quickly got the gist of things. Essentially massage meant getting lots of attention. Something that big brother also noticed..! (No, the big boy didn't want to be baby massaged.) Since there were quite a few strokes and parts of the body to cover baby N's interest started to wane off but when we got to the final section of 'Stretches' he surprised me by bursting out in a fit of giggles! What a sweet episode - having this 4 month old chuckle and laugh! Okay, after that the hunger hit pretty big time and it nearly led to tears but all in all it was a good experience. Must try again tomorrow.
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