Rescue first, then stay

Somewhere in these months, coming to the rescue stops being the end of the story: once you have arrived, they will probably forget what they were doing and concentrate on you instead — smiling, laughing, babbling and imitating you, for many minutes at a stretch. So the whole invitation here is not to leave again the moment the problem is fixed. Whatever they wanted sorting out turns out to be less interesting than who came.

🛡️ Freeing a stuck baby is a gentle job: a flat hand at the hip or the shoulder, only as far as the body already wants to go, and never a turn made by pulling on an arm or a leg. If they are wedged against or under something, move the furniture rather than the baby. The rescue is the small part of this — there is nothing here worth hurrying.