Adventures in Babysitting

I am writing this post on Saturday, September 22 and will set it to out tomorrow morning.  Where will I be on that beautiful autumn Sunday?  At my daughters wedding!  WHOO HOO!

The bachelorette party was last night and I was given the privilege of watching grandbaby while her mother partied with the bride and her friends.  And, yes, I am sincere about that, too.  Four month old babies like everyone – they are past the colic stage and haven’t gotten to the fear of strangers stage.  So all this baby does is smile!

What an adventure it was for me, though.  My youngest hasn’t been a baby for mumble-mumble years and I just didn’t realize how things have changed.

For example, diapers have lines on them now so you can tell when the baby is wet.  (At least Huggies Diapers do.)  That’s an affiliate link, by the way, Target has great prices on them. 

And Wipes are now kept in a warmer, like the Munchkin Warm Glow although there are other brands.    The green thing on her foot is a owlet smart sock , which is basically a baby monitor that checks your babies heart rate and oxygen levels.  I really wish I had one of those for my kids.  I was always so paranoid, I kept a mirror near their beds to make sure they were breathing.

The best thing, though, was the Swing.   This is a picture of a picture of my daughter in her click-click, so named because as it swung back and forth, it went click-click, click-click.  It wasn’t electric – you had to wind it up after it clicked itself out.  If you weren’t careful, you woke the baby up!

Now, of course, they are electric,  like the Graco Baby Swing –   Even her bassinet was electric!  It placed music and gently rocked her to sleep.  It was a Fisher-Price Soothing Motions

I’ve put a few links in this post, because if you are a grandma like me, you probably want to look into these things for YOUR new grandbaby.  Do check Amazon, but be sure to look at Target, Walmart and Bed, Bath and Beyond and Sears for things like that, too.  Prices vary widely.

One word of caution – many baby monitors link to phones now, too, so Mommy can watch the room from her cell phone.  This is good to know ahead of time if you go into babies room to get dressed after your shower.   Oh, well, I figure I have seen her naked often enough….

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