Baby Shower for Jesus

For our end of term celebration December 13, Women of Heart collected 72 baby sleepers, 2 baby quilts, various toys and $120 in cash for the Peter Lougheed Hospital's neonatal unit. The children from Promiseland presented them to a manger scene and delighted us with some carols. Thank you all so much for your generousity. The hospital is thrilled to be receiving this gift! We also heard from Cheryl Bartel and her Journey to Joy regarding the premature birth of her son Lucas and his time in hospital. She mentioned that it was very comforting to see her baby wearing a sleeper and lying under a mini quilt - it added a sense of normalcy and hope in a very stressful situation. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this windup celebration. The food, table decorations and music were delightful.

Dunstan Baby Language

Aussie mum Pricilla Dunstan has a special sensitivity to the nuances of sounds. She could tell if a person was sick just by talking to them. When she had a baby of her own she noticed the different sounds her own child made in the pre-cry stage. Research on other babies showed that babies the world over make similar sounds, but if they are not attended to, this special baby language gets extinguished. (If I had had this knowledge I think it wouldn’t have taken five months to solve my daughter’s colic problem. Emma stopped having gas when I avoided cow’s milk – I have an slow-acting IgG allergy to dairy. Emma was also proving sensitive to it because 10 days after I quit dairy, she stopped having gas).

The baby language words are:
Neh - I'm hungry.
Owh - I'm sleepy.
Heh - I'm experiencing discomfort - perhaps that they need a fresh diaper.
Eairh - I have lower gas.
Eh - I need to burp.
Source: Wikipedia.

Forgived

I’ve developed a bugaboo regarding the pronounciation of the word “sandwich”. Whenever I heard it pronounced incorrectly I would fume, and the love would evaporate, leaving only judgement. Now my son has started saying “sang-wich.” It has taken me some time, but the light bulb has finally come on. I just realized that in some cases it’s not important to correct people’s pronounciation of certain words out loud or fret about it in my head. After all I’m not assuming the role of teacher, and it’s not fruitful to nag.

So I said to my son, “I repent in dust and ashes. Please forgive me”. Stevan said, “You are forgived.” :)