Now, normally I can't stay up past 9. But tonight there's a little life depending on me, and I'm not sleepy at all. I know, that's what baby monitors are for-- but still, not sleepy.
I babysat a lot when I was a kid (and after I was a kid), and I always remember being slightly terrified of the babies. There were so many ways to go wrong with a baby! I always had Mom on retainer when I sat for young kids.
But all the anxiety is gone now. When I'm hanging out with Anna, I just know what to do. Not quite a sixth sense, but I can figure out what she needs. babies are really not rocket science. There's only a few things that they need (milk, new diaper, pacifier, comfort), and you can usually figure out by process of elimination which one is next. And Dr. Whoever's 5 S's work wonders for soothing babies: side or stomach, swinging, sucking, swaddling, shushing. Sometimes you do them all at once. And it works!
Anyway... I'm all over this babysitting thing. She's such a sweetheart.
Holding babies is balm for the soul.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
babysitting
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Who is Anna?
I haven't heard of Dr. Whoever's 5 S's but they make sense! I guess most of them came naturally to me.
Except swaddling--which was okay because Baby Girl didn't like that! I think by the time you met her (at just about 2 weeks) we weren't swaddling her arms anymore because when we tried, she'd get her arms out through the neck holes of her onesies/jammies and that was more disturbing for her than not being swaddled.
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