Parents are usually having a hard time manifesting their love for their kids. Only a few can put love into words and convey them to their children. Maybe because we are ashamed of doing so or we are finding the right time to say it. However, why not make it a practice to say I love you everyday without putting it into words.
When I gave birth to my first daughter, my OB-Gynecologist taught me a way on how to express my love for my baby. I want to share it with you readers.
Before putting your baby into bath, it is a must that we massage our child at least with lotion or baby oil. There's a technique in doing this at the same time you can make your baby feel loved:
- First, place both of your hands on your baby's chest. Then, massage her downward as if forming the letter "I".
- Second, using both of your hands still, massage her chest again as if forming a heart. This means "love".
- Lastly, massage her again downward where both of your hands will meet a little below her navel forming the letter "U".
- Do the same thing with her back.
Isn't that easy? Do this everyday. Make it a habit. Your baby will definitely feel loved without having her hear the words from you.
# 1 I have 12 children who show me and tell me on a daily basis, (or at least whenever possible for the older ones) that they love me. Had they not heard me tell them that I love them on a daily basis, they would not have learned to verbalize it to me.
# 2 When my 10th child, was only 2 months old I told him "I love you" one day and was somewhat surprised when he repeated the words back to me. Thinking that it was probably a fluke, I repeated the words back to him and again, he repeated them back to me! I tried it several times and even had other family members come in and hear him say it. We were all flabergasted. This went on for about a month. This exchange was also witnessed by a couple of lady friends. A friend and I were visiting another friend in the latter friends home. I told them about this and as I did so, my baby was watching me and again repeated the words "I love you" back to me. They too, were flabergasted.
What a beautiful blessing and miracle it is to me to hear those words coming from small children as it is, let alone a 2 month old infant! It was literally prophecy fulfilled -- "Out of the mouth of babes"!
Anyway, it was like a window of heaven was opened for but a brief moment. He only did this for a month or less and then stopped saying it until he finally learned how to talk. Had I not daily verbalized those 3 beautiful words to my children, I would never have heard my 2 month old baby verbalize them back to me.