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Diary Of A New Mum -
Week 29

Non-Bouncing Baby

Now that Jessica-Ann is getting a little older, we thought it a good idea to help her development a little by buying her one of those bouncers that hang in the doorway. One of the ‘Other Moms’ has one for her baby boy, and he loves it. We did our research. All babies love them, apparently. And they are a great way to wear your baby out ready for her nap.

Once I’d had the idea, I couldn’t wait, so I went into town and bought one from the slightly overpriced baby store in town. Of course, I could have shopped around. I’m sure I could have got it cheaper on the Internet, or from eBay. But I’m impatient by nature. It’s not surprising we conceived Jessica-Ann the very first time we tried to make a baby!

I rushed home and put the bouncer together. Then I strapped Jess into it and stood back to watch her bounce. She just hung there, rotating slightly from right to left. Think of a parachutist caught in a tree, legs dangling uselessly, a resigned expression on the face. That was Jessica-Ann in her bouncer. She looked up at me as if to say: ‘And what precisely am I supposed to do now?’

I grabbed her legs and showed her how to bounce. She smiled a little, but as soon as I stopped she just hung there again, waiting for me to do it for her. I swung her back and forward, making it into a game. She held on to her parachute straps for dear life and then cried. She hated the thing. Or she hated being upright, or suspended, or something. She can’t, of course, tell me what she thinks. I just have to guess.

The answer is staring us straight in the face, and we can’t avoid it anymore. We have a lazy baby. Jessica-Ann is developing wonderfully in every way – except one. She shows no desire at all to move around! While other babies (the babies of the ‘Other Moms’), are rolling around the floor like gymnasts, Jess just sits and stares at them. If you put her on her tummy – a pre-position for crawling – she cries in annoyance until you righten her again. In her high-chair or bouncing-chair she kicks her legs furiously, but put her in the bouncer to use up all that energy and she merely floats helplessly like a butterfly.

Paul and I tell each other it’s because she is a genius. What purpose does rolling serve, after all? Why should she play on her tummy? She can sit up virtually unaided now, and she seems content with this. She will be late to walk, I’m sure. She is just too lazy to see the point! And I have to confess, writing this with my feet up on the sofa, I don’t blame her at all…

Week 30 - Coming Soon!

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