In my mind, I was certain they were just doing a sales pitch
and was trying to impose their holistic nonsense bullshit on me –I was, after all,
in some yoga class when that conversation happened. I really thought they had gone
over the cuckoo’s nest!
I mean, what do you do with a gym ball? Or a birthing ball,
or an exercise ball, a balance ball, or whatever it is that is being called,
except using it as a prop when you exercise? You know that big, round of a ball which is about
10x the size of your head and you can use it to bounce your butt around? Yeah, this:
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Turned out I was probably the weird, closed-minded one and
those people knew what they were talking about. (Duh! I know…I know….)
Why am I even blogging about this? Apart from the fact that
I have put myself in shame by exposing my ignorance about the uses of the ball,
I also discovered the magic of the ball last week in my “Mommy and Me” Yoga
class session with Spud.
Ahh! Now it is making sense, right!
I have always enjoyed the “Mommy and Me” Yoga sessions for
moms with new babies (min. 1 month till about crawling stage). I figured, since I did a number of sessionswith Spud when I was on maternity leave, I thought going with Squirt now would
be a good way to spend one-on-one time with him before I go back to work; which
was what exactly I did last week.
Except that due to his reflux, that poor boy could not stop
crying and was inconsolable. Nothing I tried worked, and looking at how
helpless I was, the instructor offered to get me a gym ball. While I went “what”,
“why” and almost rolling my eyeballs IN MY HEAD when I heard that, I accepted the
offer graciously.
When she came back with the ball and suggested that I bounce
on the ball while cradling Squirt, I did wonder if it will work. I even felt
certain that it was a futile effort, and somewhat ridiculous. But I was too
focused on trying to calm Squirt down, and at that time, I was game to try
ANYTHING.
What do you know – the moment I sat on it and started
bouncing up and down like a clown, Squirt calmed down immediately. I kid you
not. He stopped crying in an instant! I
even tried it several times during that session for every single time he got inconsolably
fussy. I was so amazed that I
immediately bought us a 65 cm ball home.
I am now endorsing that it indeed is a fabulous tool for
soothing a fussy Squirt. Each time he gets into one of his crying fits, I get
on the ball. And it worked every damn time; even putting Silver Bullet in
amazement at how Squirt just shuts up!
I don’t know why that is, but it works brilliantly and
I.AM.SOLD.
It is so effective that even Silver Bullet and our Nanny have both started to use it to bounce and rock him gently whenever he has one of those
manic crying bouts.
This has gotta be one of the weirdest, but the best 640 baht
I have spent in a long, long while.
4 comments:
Yay! Good to hear you found something that helps Squirt less fussy. I've never tried the ball, but I tried to put Mathieu to sleep in a hammock (that is what they called them in Oz.) It really is the old-fashioned bouncy sarong thing I used to sleep in : http://www.babyhammocks.com/
Anyway it only worked for a couple of sleeps...unfortunately for us. Luckily, I only hired it!
That picture of you and Squirt is gorgeous! I find out about the fitball in that class too and bought one immediately! Maija is still using it (with my help) to bounce and roll around.
@Rachel: !the hammock is indeed the modern version of the sarong! It probably is over priced! haa haa I remember those sarongs hanging from the ceiling - and I'm sure my mom used that with me too!
@Helen:you have one too!!Spud loves playing with it as well when I roll her around with it.She was initially quite scared of it. And, you are too kind with your compliment Helen! It belies the fact that I was feeling like a wreck at that time. :)
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