IrishOboe

This morning Joseph and I went to our first PEKiP course.  PEKiP stands for Prager-Eltern-Kind Program, which means the “Prague parent-child program.”  Someone here recommended it and when I found out it’s 1 ½ hours of naked baby time and that there was a class starting up soon I signed up without too much further research.  I don’t know if that smart or not, but here we are.  There are six ladies and their babies in the class but only five were there today.  Three are second or third time mothers and have done PEKiP before.  We mostly got to know each other today so I can’t judge yet how it is.  The instructor spent quite a bit of time watching and learning about each child.  We’ll see what happens.  Of the two ulterior motives I had for taking this class, one is shot out of the water.  I wanted to get to know local Swiss mothers and have a natural setting for practicing Swiss German but at least three of the other four mothers are German!  That’s good news for my High German, I guess.  The other ulterior motive was getting 1 ½ hours of diaper free time and seeing how others dealt with elimination needs.  I mentioned this and it turns out they don’t bother watching signals.  They just clean up when a mess occurs.  I think I’m going to bring my “potty” along anyway because Joseph consistently became fussy before he peed (three times) so it shouldn’t be too hard to at least give him the opportunity to go when he becomes fussy.  Otherwise he was happy to be naked in a warm room (I was sweating like mad!) and only really cried at the end because he was ready for a nap.  Unfortunately, I didn’t learn any great ways to keep yourself from getting peed on or not worrying about when the baby will pee.  I couldn’t watch too much since I was focusing on Joseph, but mostly they just kept their babies on the towels on the floor and held the towel around them if they held their babies.  I just got peed on, but that’s starting to bother me less and less . . .
So, it’s good observation time, but won’t be good for support.  I need to find a Swiss EC group.  I wonder what EC is in German.

Yesterday Joseph had his 2 month appointment.  He’s still at the top of the charts for weight (6.780 kilograms, 59.5cm, 41.5cm head at 10 weeks).  (That was quite obvious at PEKiP this morning.  He was one of the bigger babies but one of the youngest!  The babies are between 2 and 4 months.)  The doctor asked if we’d cut Joseph’s hair.  I said “no” and he said “It looks funny.”  Other than that he was very encouraging and impressed with Joseph’s progress, especially with head control.  And his hair does look funny . . .