If you had asked me a couple of weeks ago what made me truly happy I may have said a nice hot bath, good music, a nice meal. . . And whilst those things are still great, nothing makes me happier than hearing burps, farts and poops! Motherhood has really scrambled my brain! Parenting: First aid questions Lesson Learned: Front facing swim in the bath! Tuesday 23rd OctoberThis morning I realised that never before was I so happy to hear burps. The bigger the belch, the happier it made me. . . Because a winded baby is a comfortable and happy baby, but if the wind he gulps in whilst feeding gets trapped, he seems to be in a lot of pain, which makes me very sad. James is fantastic at the "bouncy bouncy with daddy" game and I do rotations and swings of "woosh woosh woosh" variety, if you can imagine that! I seem to be the same about the poops - I always want "all the poops, please" because, once again, that means my baby is eating well, is healthy and happy! Motherhood is a funny thing. . . Parenting: First aid questions In the afternoon I quizzed James on all things relating to first aid of the baby. I wanted to be prepared should anything ever happen - I am trained in basic emergency first aid (so I know not to give plasters to people in the office), but James has served in the Armed Forces and has a far greater knowledge on all-things-first-aid. I had great fun throwing various hypothetical scenarios at him and seeing if I could guess what to do. . . Bleeding, choking, poisoning and broken bones seemed like the most possible situations I'd encounter so we reiterated what the best thing to do in each case would be, also remembering to call the island nurse first! And then it was time to have a bath in a newly painted bathroom - it was going to be another "play bath" as the health visitor had suggested, so we filled our large tub all the way to the top, creating a paddling pool as such for the little baby and filling it full of floating toys for him to look at. He is still too young to focus on or even notice such distractions, but it was a lot of fun nonetheless. I guess the toys are more for us than they are for him at this point! Here is a little video showing snippets of our bath time today:
I got comfy on the edge of our corner bath and James passed me the baby - I had a far more comfortable grip on Ron than James could have from the outside! I was swooshing the baby back and forth whilst holding him firmly by his shoulder and he seemed to really love having a swim. Then I remembered that the health visitor recommended doing a front facing swim too, as we had already tried last week. This is meant to be more fun and replicate an actual swim, so I turned the baby on his belly whilst still holding him firmly and did a couple of laps of the bath with him facing forwards. Lesson Learned: Front facing swim in the bath! What I didn't realise is that from where I was sitting and the way I held him, meant I couldn't see his face - he was looking away from me! I moved him forward as if he was swimming, then backwards. . . forwards again and then. . . he gulped in a mouthful of bath water! I immediately realised what happened and took my baby out of the water, giving him a pat on the back (good job we talked about first aid techniques earlier today). He coughed and then cried! Ron looked so upset with me and, although I apologised to him, I still felt so guilty! I was so sorry that it had happened this way and vowed to be more careful next time!
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