<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Last night, we had a baby over and I spent much time holding him. He was four months old and had the sweetest temperament ever. I had what I thought would be an opportunity to hold him for a short while and ended up being attached for far longer than I anticipated he would allow. At one point, he became slightly cranky because sleep was coming for him. Realizing this, I decided to employ the Nighty-Night technique I figured out when my niece was a baby. When he had been awake and engaged, I held him near my right side. When I realized he was sleepy, I turned him so that he rested on my left side and could hear my heart beat. Within minutes, his eyes closed but then reopened after a pause. This happened a couple of times until he fell asleep without reopening his eyes again. To test his level of sleep, I later lifted his free arm and dropped it. It fell straight down without any stiffening from him. He was well and truly asleep. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>A sleeping baby is one of the sweetest things in the world. As much as I would love to experience the sweetness of my own sleeping baby, time continues marching forward and, at 40, the forward march of time is not a benign element in my desire for children. Although I’m an extremely capable and independent person in other areas of my life, I realize this is the one thing I don’t want to do alone. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>In New Year, New Optimism<\/a> I outlined what I would like to do from a professional standpoint. This post is more personal. Personally, I would love to, first, have a relationship (I am a step-by-step person). However, it would need to be a loving relationship where creating a family would be a welcome option. Then, I would love to create said family. As before, I’ll do what I can solo and leave things open for change. Anything can happen…<\/p>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, we had a baby over and I spent much time holding him. He was four months old and had the sweetest temperament ever. I had what I thought would be an opportunity to hold him for a short while and ended up being attached for far longer than I anticipated he would allow. … Continue reading Baby, baby, baby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pfspirit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/author\/pfspirit\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Last night, we had a baby over and I spent much time holding him. He was four months old and had the sweetest temperament ever. I had what I thought would be an opportunity to hold him for a short while and ended up being attached for far longer than I anticipated he would allow. …","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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