Morgan Day 4

Today both Joelle and Morgan seemed more settled. He was a better colour and had lost the redness and flushed appearance he had before. He was also feeding a little better it appeared. He was certainly livelier, showed greater variety in facial expressions and was opening his mouth. In repose he appeared to be practicing feeding! Huw and Joelle explained their educational strategy and suggested that I should provide overall direction and Margaret be the hands-on practitioner. The book ‘How to have a smarter baby’ (Ludington-Hoe & Golant, S.K., (1985 rev, 1987) seems to provide good guidelines. In particular, on pp. 175-7 there are suggestions for stimulation from the first couple of days. Margaret has started to prepare some material: black stripes, black and white checkboard and a black dot. It has also been decided that Joelle would not speak Mandarin to Morgan, and would leave that to Kelvin & Sumei. Margaret will speak Welsh to him.