{"id":75,"date":"2007-09-24T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2007-09-24T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T23:50:21","slug":"what-do-you-do-with-a-fussy-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Do With A Fussy Baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin&#8217;s entered a new stage of development.  He now does more than eat and sleep: he&#8217;s alert for hours at a time.  Unfortunately, during those hours, he wants to be entertained.  Sometimes he can be soothed just by rocking, or looking at the mobile his daddy ginned up for him&#8212;out of a pair of chopsticks, a shoe string, a paper clip, and two origami cranes&#8212;but for a majority of the time he&#8217;s just <em>fussy<\/em>.  Right now he&#8217;s bawling his little head off because I&#8217;ve fed him, I&#8217;ve changed him, I&#8217;ve walked with him, I&#8217;ve rocked him, I&#8217;ve sung to him and told him stories, and I am <em>tired<\/em> and so now I&#8217;m ignoring him, and good golly he is mad as heck about it.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that almost always quiets him is putting him in the sling and taking him for a walk, but this is because he instantly falls asleep.  As soon as the walk is over and he&#8217;s awake again, he starts fussing.  How do I get him to be happy during his alert time?  Parents, give me your secrets, please!<\/p>\n<p>Also my cat needs attention but I just can&#8217;t take her crawling all over me and meowing at me when I&#8217;ve spent all day catering to the whims of <em>one<\/em> needy mammal, so I just shoved her away and now I feel guilty about that too.<\/p>\n<p>Good lord, why don&#8217;t they make ball gags for babies?  I&#8217;m gonna start a business and make a million dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin&#8217;s entered a new stage of development. He now does more than eat and sleep: he&#8217;s alert for hours at a time. Unfortunately, during those hours, he wants to be entertained. Sometimes he can be soothed just by rocking, or looking at the mobile his daddy ginned up for him&#8212;out of a pair of chopsticks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}