Baby Massage

On Monday afternoons Hayley goes to Baby Cafe. This is a great meeting place for a noisy congregation of chattering Mums (and the occasional Dad) where babies amuse themselves on the playmats and baby gyms. Sadly, due to lack of funding it is due to close after Christmas.

Yesterday a guest speaker gave a demonstration of baby massage. Oliver took a star turn as one of the babies who acted as a guinea pig. Unlike the other three babies who all cried at some point during the massage, Oliver thoroughly enjoyed it amused the mothers there with his penchant for pampering. The only time he started to grumble was when he realised the session was ending. Hayley resumed the massage and his grizzling stopped to the further amusement of his audience.

So tonight Hayley repeated the routine in our living room, demonstrating the techniques to me along the way. He was contented and even smiling during his massage (see picture above). It took about 10 minutes and he happily let Hayley massage him, even when rolled onto his front to have his back done. He looked like he would happily lie there on his towel being pampered all evening.



At its conclusion he briefly made a few quiet whinging noises before being placed in a sleep-siut that had been warmed on the radiator. This appeased him and he promptly fell asleep on the sofa.