{"id":2649,"date":"2009-06-21T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2009-06-21T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T21:57:44","slug":"more-early-thoughts-from-a-second-time-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2649","title":{"rendered":"Some (early) thoughts from a two-time mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avery’s only been with us for 48 hours, but I already have so much to write about. While I need a bit more energy to recount my labor\/delivery experience (let’s just say it was very, very different than what I had expected), I will share that I didn’t feel terribly bonded to Avery right from the start. I was happy to see her, of course, and I marveled over her pink cheeks, sweet baby noises, and intact nose (Zoe’s, as you might remember, was quite squashed) – but I didn’t feel that rush of mad-love like I did when I first met Zoe. “I just don’t feel that connected to her,” I’ve said to Q several times since Fri. night. “I like <\/em>her, but I don’t really feel like she’s mine.” I wondered if it was because she seemed so different than newborn-Zoe or because I was still trying to process\/recover from a very emotional labor. <\/p>\n

Whatever it was, there was a definite shift early this morning, when the nurse brought her to me for a feeding. Curled up beside me on the bed, Avery had her snack and then fell asleep; when I woke up a few hours later and felt her little body pressed against mine and heard her little baby coos, I was hooked. A little snuggling was all it took for it to hit me: she is <\/em>mine, and I’m one lucky mama!<\/p>\n

-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Avery’s only been with us for 48 hours, but I already have so much to write about. While I need a bit more energy to recount my labor\/delivery experience (let’s just say it was very, very different than what I had expected), I will share that I didn’t feel terribly bonded to Avery right from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35the-poppy-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","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=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}