{"id":98,"date":"2006-05-09T20:05:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T01:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/two-weeks\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T08:19:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T13:19:18","slug":"two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, Lucy is “two weeks years old” (that is how Jon likes to say it :). I think all three of us have learned a lot about each other over these past two weeks. Even with all the reading I’ve done, caring for a baby is definitely different from how I thought it would be. <\/p>\n

\"Snoozer\"Things we’ve used a lot since Lucy was born:
\n* a swaddling blanket, approximately 36×28" in size (different from regular receiving blankets)
\n* side-snap t-shirts
\n* diapers (not surprising)
\n* nursing bras and Soothies<\/p>\n

Things I thought we would use, but haven’t used much:
\n* baby clothes (even the newborn ones are too big right now, and she is constantly swaddled anyway) — except for footie suits for road trips
\n* baby shampoo (we are still a bit intimidated about bathing her, and she seems pretty clean anyway — especially her butt)
\n* baby washcloths and towels (ditto)
\n* “my journal”:http:\/\/www.annagram.org\/extras\/journaling.html<\/p>\n

There have been other noteworthy things too, like:
\n* how surprised I am that I’ve taken a shower every day since we’ve been home
\n* how much of Lucy’s day is taken up by eating and sleeping (and crying)
\n* how nervous I am about leaving the house — what if Lucy starts crying and we don’t know how to console her?
\n* how good it is to have Jon as a partner in caring for Lucy — he is the best Papa ever!
\n* how long it takes me to fold a single basket of laundry (five hours today, from start to finish)
\n* how easy it is to forget to eat (even though Jon is good at reminding me)<\/p>\n

Caring for a newborn is really challenging and stretching, but in the process the whole family learns a lot about each other. The experience is certainly intense — kind of a cross between a picnic in the park and baby boot camp! I’m so glad to have had these 14 days of getting to know Lucy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, Lucy is “two weeks years old” (that is how Jon likes to say it :). I think all three of us have learned a lot about each other over these past two weeks. Even with all the reading I’ve done, caring for a baby is definitely different from how I thought it would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}