{"id":1649,"date":"2010-05-24T06:29:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T10:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2010-05-24T06:29:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T10:29:46","slug":"teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know moms aren\u2019t supposed \"\"to wish their children were older. We\u2019re supposed to enjoy each stage for what it is, and I try to do that. But sometimes I wish Micah could talk. Like last week, for example. He was extra fussy and I couldn\u2019t figure out why. He seemed to be over his cold, but he didn\u2019t want me to put him down at all. I\u2019d put him in the swing or on his play mat, but he\u2019d only last a few minutes. Then he\u2019d suddenly burst into tears like I\u2019d abandoned him forever, so I\u2019d pick him up again. Almost everything I accomplished last week was done with one hand.<\/p>\n

Then on Thursday night I was giving Micah a bath when I noticed two tiny white lines in his gums. So he’d had a good reason for all that fussing; he’d been cutting his first two teeth.<\/p>\n

I’ll be happy when Micah can explain in words what he needs. In the meantime, I’ll just keep holding him. It’s really not such a bad way to spend the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know moms aren\u2019t supposed to wish their children were older. We\u2019re supposed to enjoy each stage for what it is, and I try to do that. But sometimes I wish Micah could talk. Like last week, for example. He was extra fussy and I couldn\u2019t figure out why. He seemed to be over his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5],"tags":[38,31],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-micah-nathan","category-motherhood","tag-micah-nathan","tag-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissyourmiracle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}