Glider Ottoman Exercise

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Back in May we received a Dutailler glider chair from +Kelly Poon and +Bartholomew Furrow (Thank you again!!), and we've been using all through the last few months of pregnancy, both me and Greg plus the cat. The idea was to rock the baby in-utero, that way maybe she'll like it when she comes out!



The glider is in serious use every evening when Greg is holding Mara upright during the dinner-time burpy breaks and before bedtime. This alternates with the exercise ball bounces which we found tremendously useful!

In the past, Willow had often enjoyed balancing on the glider chair's foot rest, which is in itself a very smooth glider. Thus mommy and Mara were inspired to pioneer a new playtime activity, with the baby on her back punching and kicking the air for momentum to rock herself. Well, it worked!!
She did a great workout on the glider's foot rest with mommy's hands ensuring she won't wiggle her way off it. Every motion she did influenced the rocking so she was very intrigued, arms wide open, feet kicking attentively and smiles on her face and lots of cooing! she even grabbed mommy's hands in her fists and used that as leverage, but in a very controlled and attentive way.

Wiggles-to-rocking causality! we'll have to do more of this.





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