{"id":2292,"date":"2008-03-21T16:54:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T00:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/03\/21\/gnawing-and-napping\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:11:05","slug":"gnawing-and-napping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/03\/21\/gnawing-and-napping\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnawing and Napping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, Bean has rejected cereal after one spoonful each morning. I&#8217;ve even offered it before her bottle first thing in the morning, but she won&#8217;t eat until a bottle is in her mouth. I&#8217;ve mixed in apple sauce. I&#8217;ve offered applesauce at the tip of the spoon hoping the first taste of sweet would entice her. No dice. However, this afternoon I was munching on an apple while at the park; Bean was sitting between my legs (she can almost stay upright all the time but I remain her backup) and showed interest. I brought the apple to her, and she pulled it to her mouth. First she licked it and not long after she began gnawing on it. I would take a bite to expose more fresh flesh for her to enjoy. I can&#8217;t say she ate any amount, but she enjoyed the taste and experience.<\/p>\n<p>In the past couple of days, Bean hasn&#8217;t napped well in my arms, only a half hour. She slept a half hour in the swing once. Multiple attempts to induce a nap (she&#8217;s obviously tired) resulted in nothing but a restless tired baby. Husband spoke to me last night about trying the crib again. He asked me to commit to a date. Ugh. Do not want! However, this afternoon when she just wouldn&#8217;t fall asleep, I decided to put her in the crib with her lovey blanket. I rocked her the usual time and then laid her down. She immediately began to cry, and I said sweet things to her and then left the room. This time I did not go in to check and console every few minutes. That only seems to calm her and then set off an escalated round of sobs when I leave. She cried for 40 minutes. Then finally she just gave up. I checked on her shortly after the cries stopped. She had turned herself onto her tummy with the blanket over her legs and back. I made sure her face wasn&#8217;t obstructed and tiptoed out. She slept for 80 minutes! Wow!!!!!! <\/p>\n<p>When she woke she was hungry and still tired but cheerful. We then met another mother and her daughter at the park and hung out for an hour and a half. Bean is only three months younger than this other little girl, so there&#8217;s some compatibility in terms of movement and interaction (i.e., one isn&#8217;t walking while the other is just learning to sit). Now she&#8217;s in the swing being quiet, and yawning. I&#8217;m not going to try the crib again today; let her doze in the swing, and bedtime will come soon enough. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2331417753\/\" title=\"got it! by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3182\/2331417753_64fa67e7f8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"got it!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Got It!<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, Bean has rejected cereal after one spoonful each morning. I&#8217;ve even offered it before her bottle first thing in the morning, but she won&#8217;t eat until a bottle is in her mouth. I&#8217;ve mixed in apple sauce. I&#8217;ve offered applesauce at the tip of the spoon hoping the first taste of sweet would [&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-2292","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\/2292","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=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13823,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/13823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}