{"id":459,"date":"2010-12-05T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T03:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2010-12-05T20:23:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T03:23:19","slug":"daddys-magic-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"daddy’s magic arms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Increasingly more commonly lately, baby dude has been fighting sleep.\u00a0 Sometimes I can put him down for a nap or for the night with no problems at all.\u00a0 Other times, he arches his back and cries and flails and screams and (if it gets really bad) he even gurgles on the back side of the sobs (kind of a “gugugugug” noise–a tragic version of popeye’s laugh).\u00a0 Or other times, he just refuses to lie in my arms and pushes himself up into a sitting position and reaches for ANYTHING in reach that might possibly delay naptime.\u00a0 At times like these, I have to make a decision–is he really just not sleepy?\u00a0 Or is it time to call in the daddy?<\/p>\n

J has the magic touch when it comes to putting the boy to sleep.\u00a0 Granted, our friends who were parents before us could probably have told you that fact long ago–their babies often fell asleep easily in his arms.\u00a0 But it doesn’t seem to matter if I’ve been trying for five minutes or fifteen to get baby dude to sleep.\u00a0 Invariably, when Jay comes up and bounces him, he falls asleep (sometimes in less than a minute).\u00a0 He’s tried to explain it to me, as though it’s just a matter of posture or how you hold baby dude’s legs or how deeply you bounce him,\u00a0 but I know better.\u00a0 Daddy’s arms feel safe and secure.\u00a0 His heartbeat is soothing.\u00a0 Heck, even I feel cozy when he hugs me.\u00a0 And our son has felt the same way since the first time his daddy held him in his magic arms.<\/p>\n

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Increasingly more commonly lately, baby dude has been fighting sleep.\u00a0 Sometimes I can put him down for a nap or for the night with no problems at all.\u00a0 Other times, he arches his back and cries and flails and screams and (if it gets really bad) he even gurgles on the back side of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}