Less Crying During Yesterday’s Bath
Ever since waterboarding Ezra, he has been fussy and been crying while I have been giving him his bath. While Ezra has not said to me that the waterboarding of two weeks ago has caused him to cry when I bathe him, I suspect it is the reason his once growing love of the water has become something of obvious displeasure.
He did cry when I was washing his face, but that could have been because it was the first thing I washed and therefore he wasn’t adjusted to the water, or it could have been because he associated cleaning of the face with waterboarding. Once I cleaned and rinsed his face and began to wash his arms he became calm.
-v- did help clam, too. In fact, if -v- wasn’t there talking with Ezra while she was waiting to dry and cloth Ezra after the bath I don’t think Ezra would have been as calm. The more -v- talked the calmer Ezra became. So Ezra not crying after I cleaned his face yesterday could have been because -v-’s words began to calm him. Of course, -v- is always by my side when I bathe Ezra talking to him while she waits to cloth and dry Ezra, so her talking doesn’t help explain his past fussiness during bath time with me after I waterboarded Ezra.