Babysitting....

well have showered and have hopefully managed to remove the faint whiff of poo smell that seemed to surround me after my first official session of babysitting....it was really eye-opening and it really helped to give a small insight into what it would be like to have children

i guess even though i've kinda helped my mom before to look after the kids when she was running the home daycare centre, i didnt really have to deal with crying babies or even the changing of the nappies...it was always up to my mom to do it but today i had to finally give that a go

realised as well that babies arent that easy to handle....one minute they're all smiley and happy, and so easily amused, the next minute they're howling their lungs out and it took me awhile to realise that he was crying coz he'd done a poo....then came the big problem of trying to change his nappies....crying babies are unhappy babies and unhappy babies never stay still so i had so much difficulty trying to take his nappy off, clean his bum and then put on a fresh diaper for him....hard to describe the whole process of what i had to try and do, and i dun think i shall....but then a tired baby is also an irritable baby so after i finally managed to change him, he kept crying and crying (on and off coz i guess he kinda got tired of crying too) until i put him in his sleeping stuff and carried him into his room, then he started bawling again...guess he knew it was time for bed...the first time round i tried putting him to bed but he wouldnt stay put and kept tryin to get out of the cot so i had to carry him around for a bit, then when i tried putting him back in the cot, he cried even more but this time i was determined to follow the advice given by his mom -- that he'd cry when u tried to put him to sleep, so let him cry and if after 10 minutes he's still crying, just go in and give him abit of a cuddle......so i decided to try that....and man, that was an agonizing 10 minutes....sitting outside the closed room door, listening to him cry and trying to resist the temptation to go into the room and cuddle him so that he'd stop crying....well i'm glad that i did listen to advice and sure enough, in abt 8 minutes (yes, i was looknig at the clock the whole time...hehe) he finally fell asleep.....i sure hope that when i'm a mom, i resist the temptation to molly-coddle my kids and let them cry and fall sometimes....realised that i tend to kinda give in to kids' demands too easily, like if the kid cries, i'd instinctively want to give in to his demands and do whatever to make him stop crying....maybe i should learn more from moms.....i'm glad my mom never really coddled us when we were growing up

anyway am exhausted from all that and work so it's time for bed