{"id":2244,"date":"2008-01-31T20:13:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T04:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/01\/31\/oh-my-aching-back\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:49:43","slug":"oh-my-aching-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/01\/31\/oh-my-aching-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh My Aching Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All those child-wearing advocates say it does wonders for your kid to be held and carried, but they what they don&#8217;t tell you is that you&#8217;ll end up with a back like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quasimodo\">Quasimodo<\/a> at the end of the day!<\/p>\n<p>Bean is very fretful and needy the past couple of days because of the teething. She won&#8217;t nap longer than 30 minutes at a time, whether she is held in the rocker, worn in the wrap, or put in the swing. And if I lay her down on a play mat and go away but remain in her eyesight, she will tolerate it very briefly before breaking down in chest-heaving sobs. As soon as I return she holds her arms open to be picked up. Then she puts her head against my shoulder. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining (not much, anyway). The past couple of days I have felt such sweetness wearing her against my belly. I savor how she falls asleep while I hum lullabies and how her little head rests on my chest. I just wish I&#8217;d done Pilates or something to build up my core strength. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All those child-wearing advocates say it does wonders for your kid to be held and carried, but they what they don&#8217;t tell you is that you&#8217;ll end up with a back like Quasimodo at the end of the day! Bean is very fretful and needy the past couple of days because of the teething. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13777,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/13777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}