Thursday, February 12, 2009

Baby Massage

Yesterday in the first half of mothers group we learnt some baby massage techniques. Lily loved laying there on her towel being massaged by me and looking around at all the other babies. Honestly that little girl just melts my heart more and more each day.
Lily obviously found the massage relaxing as after a quick top up she promptly dropped off into a deep sleep, she slept for the following hour soundly in her pram, which is unheard of! She even woke up and drifted back off to sleep again. That to is certainly unheard of!

I had to wake Lily up to put her in the car to leave.

We then went to Coles to do a spot of shopping, but once we were home and Lily had another quick feed she was straight back to sleep until I woke her at 8:00pm, and boy was she grumpy!

Since Lily clearly enjoys a massage and the result is a lovely deep sleep for her I will certainly be implementing massage into our evening routine. I am all about routines and structure!

We also learnt about Lymphatic (?) exercises, to teach baby co-ordination between their left and right side of the brain. Lily seems to enjoy these too. Since Lily is breastfed and Cameron doesn't play a huge role in her day to day care I thought this could be something he could do with her every day or so. He seems interested, whether this continues after a day or so we will see!

Of course since I am such a photo fanatic here is some pics of Lily with her teddies that I took this morning.
My clever girl reading the gift tag.


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