Under The Wrap
AUDIO | 7 MINUTES
A gentle guided playtime with a muslin wrap
Your babe is changing every day, and probably, so are you! This active audio moment invites you to take a moment to create a mental snapshot of your babe - exactly as they are now.
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Using a simple muslin wrap, this audio will guide you and your babe as you soak in each others features and company.
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This moment will work best if your baby is on their back on a mat or rug on the floor. You will need a light muslin or cotton wrap.
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This moment was created for Glow’s early digital workshops presented by Carolyn Berchervaise and Sarah Lockwood. It features the beautiful voice of Maryam Khamosh.
Is your babe on a mat on the floor?
Do you have a light wrap with you?
Then you’re ready to press play and begin!
If it took half an hour to change a nappy, that was ok, it was the thing I was doing right now.
One step in front of the other.
— Carolyn Bechervaise
“You work with children! You’re going to be such a natural parent”.
When I was pregnant people would constantly say this to me - and their confidence in me as a soon-to-be parent got me through my pregnancy.
And then my baby arrived.
I had absolutely no idea what to do from one moment to the next. Zero.
“But I’m supposed to be a natural” I would whisper to myself as the baby cried. I tried to not feel like a failure, to draw on the confidence that everyone around me had given in the lead up to the birth, to figure out what a ‘natural parent’ should be doing.
But maybe there isn’t such a thing as a ‘natural parent’. Maybe none of us really know what we are doing - especially in those early months.
Over time, I started to find the little everyday moments, that I did know about, things I could hold onto and play with.
I changed everything into a song, changing a nappy became a game, rolling around on the floor, being under a wrap and looking at my baby - and just staring.
These known moments were freeing, when I could block out the idea of what I should be doing, and do what felt natural to me, between me and my baby.
I began moving through each day like this, one foot in front of the other - singing, playing, staring - using whatever I had, both in myself and whatever was around me. If it took half an hour to change a nappy, that was ok, it was the thing I was doing right now.
One step in front of the other.
I still parent like that now.
One step in front of the other.
— Carolyn Bechervaise
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