Our friend Spike is certified in infant massage, among other things, and as a gift, she promised us a massage training session when Petra was born. We finally were able to coordinate a time when neither family was traveling, so she sat down with us and gave us some good techniques to work on. And it turns out there's a massage technique called petrassage (really!) so of course that's what we call it now.
Petra seems to do best with petrassage in the mornings, because strangely enough, it seems to wake her up. I used to try to massage her in the evenings to try and relax her, or after a bath, but they never seemed to work. She's a morning gal. Can't wait to see what coffee does to her.
