Baby signing

So Monday we went to our first ever Baby signing class "Sing and Sign." It was quite fun, though it was only us there, as everyone else seems to be on holiday. Fair enough, I will not be there next week, as I will be away. Baby was just crawling around the room, pulling herself up on the chairs, and playing with whatever she found, and at times actually paid attention to the singing and signing. Our teacher, J, seems really nice and friendly, and her daughter El is just so cute! I learned the basics "eat", "more", "drink", "all done" and a few animals. Ahh and the twinkle twinkle animal song! I wouldn't be surprised if "duck" is baby's first sign. Really looking forward to this. Another great thing, is the same teacher has just signed at the nursery baby will be attending, which is great as she will have the same system with me and at chilcare! I am hoping that signing serves as a link between my Spanish, and the world's English, and will help her understand both languages and lessen her frustration. I am starting to try to get into the habit of signing, and I can't wait until the day she signs something back!!

And the judging begins

So my aunt decided to come and spend my last weeks of my maternity leave with us. Which means she wants us to be travelling and doing things, so I end up spending less time with my baby or getting things sorted before I go back to work. It also means having someone next to us judging and making critical comments about everything we do. Co-sleeping- "Oh, its going to be hard to get her out of that." BF- "I don't really like seeing women breastfeeding in public, I only breastfed mine till 6 months, there's no point doing it any longer. BLW- "She looks so funny eating food like that. " and at a restaurant to a waiter " Oh sorry for the mess, she feeds herself, that's why" hmmm if anything, I should do the apologizing, not her, and baby feeding herself has nothing to do with it. Babywearing- "Oh you do prefer that, you must get tired, you probably won't be doing that for long now" "Oh, she only wants to be carried by mummy, doesn't she" That and, leaving papers, cables, laptops, etc within reach of baby, and she keeps leaving the gate open. The only time she closed it, baby was already in the sling.