Baby Gabe

What a difference from four months ago when he absolutely hated baths.  Now he can’t get enough of them.

Baby Gabe hated baths.  All the books and magazines and websites we read said that babies love bathtime and that a bath was a relaxing way to start winding down for the night.  But Gabriel wouldn’t have any of that.  If anything, bathtime worked him up to a good cry.  So then his A-ma watched us give him a bath and suggested we shampoo him first in the sink salon-style, wash his face, and then put him in the tub.  This was sage advice passed down from her mother, Gabriel’s A-tsoh, who bathed all her children like that.  This ran counter to everything we’ve read — conventional wisdom being that shampoo might get in the baby’s eyes causing him to cry, and you wouldn’t want to start bathtime like that.  We gave A-ma’s and A-tsoh’s method a try.  No more crying.  Score one for oral tradition.  Thanks A-tsoh and A-ma!