When you talk to doctors and read baby books, the one-year mark clearly sticks out as a major milestone. A one-year-old can do so many things that a younger baby can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t: eat a wide variety of food, drink cow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s milk, sit forward-facing in a car seat. And at one year, a baby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s risk of SIDS is dramatically reduced \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so blankets can be brought into the crib (and the parents can sleep a little easier at night). These changes probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a big deal to Zoe – who turns one year a week from today – but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re certainly a big deal to me and Q. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most excited about introducing Zoe to chocolate and being able to see her better in the car, while I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m most fixated on the introduction of whole milk \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which will bring on a real lifestyle change for me. (Again, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think Zoe will know the difference \u00e2\u20ac\u201c she eats and drinks whatever we give her!) Part of me is happy to phase out my feeding responsibilities, but a (bigger) part of me is nostalgic over months past. And I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but think (as I’ve thought many times before): where did my little 7-pounder go??<\/p>\n
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When you talk to doctors and read baby books, the one-year mark clearly sticks out as a major milestone. A one-year-old can do so many things that a younger baby can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t: eat a wide variety of food, drink cow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s milk, sit forward-facing in a car seat. And at one year, a baby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s risk of SIDS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14eleven-months-to-year-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}