Baby Massage

Today was Curtis's first baby massage class. Knowing it started at 1.15pm we began making plans to leave mid-morning....on the basis that yesterday when we tried to meet Gareth for lunch at Silverburn we only made it in time to spend the last 32 seconds of his lunchbreak with him due to a prolonged feed b4 we left, some problems getting Curtis settled enough the leave the house, then Curtis being sick in the car! Today we arrived just 3 minutes late and managed to stay for the whole class.

The class was held in the lovely Tramway theatre near to our house in one of the back rooms, today full of sunshine. About 7-8 other babies were there with their mums or mum/dad combos. Curtis was the youngest there by about 10 days with most babies around 3-4 months old. He hadn't had a lunchtime nap so was a bit wired but manged to keep any grumpiness to a quick 5 minute bout of grizzles whilst all the other babies were starting their massage. We soon caught up and he seemed quite hapy to have his legs smothered in grapeseed oil, pummelled and stroked. Curtis then became teachers pet and was taken by the class teacher (also our health visitor) for some cuddles, and a trip around the room to meet all the other babies. Being a sociable guy he was more than happy with this.

A quick walk around Maxwell Park enabled me to get Curtis to sleep for just 30 minutes, then we were home for more feeds, more attempts of getting Curtis to sleep (unsuccessful) and then the usual night time routine. Just now I'm typing and hearing him grunting and snuffling on the monitor so clearly he is still not sleeping, but he's quiet and in his bed without trouble by 7pm so no real complaints from me!