Thursday, May 3, 2007

. . . recommended exercise from the Scottish government and her first state of emergency

Who doesn't love a moment or two on the tummy? Baby-gassie (remember, the 'ie' makes it feminine) for one. Our pediatrician and the government of Scotland recommend 10 to 15 minutes a day of "tummy time" to help develop baby-athletic's neck and upper body strength, and to help prevent flat head syndrome also known as plagiocephaly.

Now, for sure babydaddy & mama don't want baby-cutest to get the flat head, so we dutifully place baby-fartie on her tummy every day. Only problem is, she hates, can't emphasize it enough, HATES it. Baby-screams-real-loud has a fuse of about 15 seconds when it comes to tummy time, and her struggling parents can handle it for about 2 minutes. This leaves roughly 13 minutes a day of unfulfilled tummy time obligations, and we're only banking this stuff, because that 2 minute stretch isn't increasing.

Luckily for the entire family, the makers of that all-time-best-friend of mama's, the boppy, offer a variety of products designed to make life with baby more comfortable. Babymama already has the amazing Uptown Dots Boppy, but just yesterday, at another (yes, another) trip to baby's favorite store, babymama found the Boppy Tummy Time Play Pad. The package pictured a happy, smiling baby, frolicking, if you will, on her tummy. The package baby looked so convincingly excited that babymama just had to get this special playset for Averie. Last night, we tried it out.



Baby-boppy likes it, and even reached out to grab the teethable (babymama made up that word) toys that are attached to it. Averie spent much of her tummy time licking the boppy, but we figure that's ok because she had to hold her head up to lick the tastiest spots.

This morning, baby-dangerous enjoyed her first day of heightened readiness as Governor Perdue declared a state of emergency for 21 Georgia counties, including ours. Also allegedy burning today: Beach High School. The state of emergency did not affect baby-smells-good's bath or her morning round of tummy time, which progressed well and lasted for the prescribed 15 minutes.


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