{"id":2461,"date":"2010-06-15T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/15\/on-my-own-2"},"modified":"2010-06-15T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T23:13:00","slug":"on-my-own-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2010\/06\/15\/on-my-own-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On my own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is back to work this week, leaving me alone with Jack every day.\u00a0 Yesterday we went to Fort Collins to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/kandkfam.blogspot.com\/\">Kristin<\/a>.\u00a0 She has a busy week with both her birthday and her due date!\u00a0 It was great seeing her and Jenni for lunch.\u00a0 But this meant a long drive with Jack and being away from the house for most of the day.\u00a0 Despite him deciding he was hungry right when my food arrived, and then letting his poop leak out of his diaper onto my pants in the restaurant, we survived!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kristin lent me a book called Babywise.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t read any parenting books yet but I think it was time.\u00a0 Jack&#8217;s feedings are chaotic and unpredictable.\u00a0 I basically feed on demand.\u00a0 I&#8217;m always anxious about when he next need me and feel incompetent about how to care for him all day.\u00a0 Last night I got only 4 hours of sleep, split up throughout the night.\u00a0 This book has a simple flexible plan that they recommend.\u00a0 Apparently I was doing a lot wrong.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try to enforce their &#8220;feed &#8211; waketime &#8211; naptime&#8221; routine and stop nursing him to sleep, except at night.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t done any &#8220;naptimes&#8221; yet, just letting him sleep when it happens.\u00a0 Today I put him down twice and he cried mightily.\u00a0 But in less than 5 minutes he fell asleep.\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 It worked.\u00a0 With any luck we can both work out a routine that works for him, so I can feel more in control and less anxious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/41032-img_1162.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/41032-img_1162.jpg?w=300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is back to work this week, leaving me alone with Jack every day.\u00a0 Yesterday we went to Fort Collins to visit Kristin.\u00a0 She has a busy week with both her birthday and her due date!\u00a0 It was great seeing her and Jenni for lunch.\u00a0 But this meant a long drive with Jack and being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}