Well, last night I had a new experience: for the first time in my 62 years, I babysat alone for a one month old (I don’t remember doing that even for my own son Richard at such a tender age).\u00a0 The baby was, of course, my beautiful granddaughter Catrin and the occasion was the first opportunity for her parents Rich & Emily to have a little quality time on their own (belatedly) celebrating Valentine’s Day over a romantic dinner.<\/p>\n
I was over there for about four and a half hours and I was alone with Catrin for around two and a half hours. I changed one nappy before they went and another while they were away, so I think that I’ve now reached a reasonable level of competency in this sticky department.<\/p>\n
Despite my best efforts, Catrin was not willing to go to sleep in the Moses basket, so she slept in my arms as I sat on the couch (and I confess that I slept a bit too). I think that my heartbeat and breathing reassured her and I delighted in listening to her breathing and little snorts. On their return, Rich told me: “She’s got you round her little finger”. You know what? – he’s absolutely right.<\/p>\n
It was trusting of Rich & Emily to let me look after Catrin at one month old but they knew that I could be trusted. Don’t tell them, but I loved<\/em> it and I am already looking forward to the next opportunity. Catrin is such an absolute sweetie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, last night I had a new experience: for the first time in my 62 years, I babysat alone for a one month old (I don’t remember doing that even for my own son Richard at such a tender age).\u00a0 The baby was, of course, my beautiful granddaughter Catrin and the occasion was the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}