[blparent] passing the baby

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi.  I might get yelled at for saying this, since obviously it goes against 
the majority.  But when I had a small  baby and I was in a group of trusted 
friends or family, I would let her be passed from one person to another, as 
long as she wasn't fussing about it.  I felt that it was a way for her to 
get to be more secure with people, and everybody enjoyed her tremendously. 
I knew that since there were plenty of responsible adults around, she was 
going to be fine.  I kept the diaper bag with me so that nobody could feed 
or change her without coming to me first, and people are usually more than 
ready to give the baby back when she needs a meal or a diapering.  So while 
I didn't know where she was every single second, I could usually keep pretty 
close track because of the sounds she made or the way people would coo and 
sweet talk her--grown-ups truly sound like idiots when there's a baby 
around.  When she got older, she made plenty of noise on her own.  Then I 
felt it was good to let her roam around freely, since there were a lot of 
people keeping an eye on her, and it was a chance for her not to be right by 
my side all the time.  She'd come back often to sort of check in for a hug 
and a kiss, then go off again.

So the other option is, if you're among people you trust, sit back and 
relax, take a little break, and let others love on your baby.  A baby can 
never get too much affection, and I don't think mine picked up more germs 
than normal by getting held a lot and passed around.  She was insanely 
healthy till she went to preschool, but that's another story.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] passing the baby

> I used a front carrier and because I checked on how he was holding his 
> head, people didn't tend to take him from me.
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