There are lots of newborn bonding techniques and it’s easy to miss the simplest one – breathing. In all the emotion and chaos of birth, recovery, getting home, visitors, it can be easy to forget to just spend time breathing, regulating your own self in this new role as a parent. Sit with your baby in the quiet and breathe each other in. Here is our story…
You can read the first part of this story here…
Newborn Bonding Techniques: Breathing
Tomos (4 days old)
Alone. I don’t like being alone. I miss the dark, the quiet, the warmth. I miss home.
For the last few days all there has been is noise, noise, noise – okay most of it coming from me – but don’t they realise that this world is big and noisy and smelly. I just miss home.
Where are we? And what is this thing I’m in? I blink my eyes open. The blurry world slowly coming into focus. Maybe this time no-one will want to poke me or squeeze me or make me all wet. Home was easy. Just me and Mum.
I can kick my legs a bit now, that is one benefit of this new world. There is more space. As long as they don’t keep wrapping me up tightly, squishing me so that I can’t move anything. Don’t they think I’ve been squashed for long enough?
I can kick my legs now but I’m still a bit stuck. What is this new contraption?
Wait, Mummy is here again. Lifting me up out and I am free, finally free. I’ll have to work out a way to escape going into that particular thing again.
It’s quiet here. Nicer. It smells nicer too.
And Mummy is here. And she is finally breathing. Breathing me in.
I stretch with a little kick to remind her that it’s me. That I can feel her again. I can hear her again and its normal. Comforting.
I stretch again, just because I can. Maybe this new home is not too bad.
Right, so when is lunch? I ask, loudly of course.
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