Role of Au Pairs in your Baby Lessons
Baby lessons is not a reference to teaching your baby to roll over, sit up, walk, talk, wave or play peekaboo, nor is this a reference to us as parents learning to put on a diaper, breastfeed or how to operate the car seat and stroller. What I am referring to here is the bigger lessons our babies have taught us, and will continue to do so.
Here are 4 things which you can tell your Au Pair from AuPaire Care to take care about:
Unconditional Love: I know it is cliché, but I vividly remember that aha moment of pure love as I looked into my firstborn child’s eyes while he was feeding. I remember calling my mum up on the phone teary and in shock, professing my undying love for Baby Leo, never having experienced such intensity and feeling like I was the first person in the world to experience it! We wipe up puke and poo at 3am and we don’t mind when baby wipes her snotty nose on our favourite shirt because it almost feels like a cuddle…
Appreciate the little things: We love them, we appreciate them, and we learn to savor the moments that are all too fleeting. The smile from the crib when you walk into their rooms in the morning, the reaching up of their chubby arms with their elastic band wrists, their baby smell…
Organizational Skills: This has never been my strong point, but as parents we learn pretty quickly how to get things done ASAP – moms on a mission. I have found this to be especially true during baby nap times, when you only have a finite amount of time to get things done and you tear round the house in a frenzy of efficiency (and yes, my baby is now taking a nap while I write this blog!) now, if junior could only tell us how long he plans to sleep for so we could really plan…
Flexibility: So alas, no we don’t know how long baby will nap for, if at all. A lot of plans fly out the window when you have a baby. A fine example to tell au pair from AuPaire Care of this is the birthday party we planned for Maisie Kate this past week (per my last blog). We planned, and bought, prepped and cooked. Then, the night before, Maisie came down with a fever of 103! In the end, she was just about ok for the party (though not looking great and off her food, so no cute pics of her scarfing down cupcakes!). Parenthood sure does teach you to roll with the punches.
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