{"id":672,"date":"2013-02-06T23:19:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T07:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/?p=672"},"modified":"2013-02-06T23:19:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T07:19:31","slug":"what-the-nicu-gave-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"what the NICU gave me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just bottle-fed, then nursed a baby who alternated between squealing with gas pains when the bottle was in his mouth and screaming in hunger whenever I took the bottle out of his mouth to try and burp him.  Then while I was nursing he would periodically lose his latch and clamp down hard on my nip.ple.  So hard that if he had teeth I would have suspected him of attempting to bite it off. <\/p>\n<p>After that I changed his diaper.  And was peed on when he somehow managed to kick off the rag I&#8217;d thrown over his boy parts.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m hooked up to the pump to finish off what he didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>If the path here had been easy, I might not feel so grateful at this very moment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d probably still feel just as tired though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bottle-fed, then nursed a baby who alternated between squealing with gas pains when the bottle was in his mouth and screaming in hunger whenever I took the bottle out of his mouth to try and burp him. Then while I was nursing he would periodically lose his latch and clamp down hard on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-talk","category-nicu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}