{"id":450,"date":"2008-12-31T16:15:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=450"},"modified":"2008-12-31T16:15:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:15:48","slug":"a-better-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/12\/31\/a-better-night\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Night&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, we had a much better night last night.&nbsp; And thanks for all the encouragement.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Also, thankfully, my milk supply is fine.&nbsp; They both seem to be getting enough (at least for now!), but there&#8217;s not much extra.&nbsp; We have been bottle feeding them at bedtime with what I have pumped which buys me a break (and I pump what we feed them the next night), and last night we did a bottle in the middle of the night as well.&nbsp; That helped a lot! I just can&#8217;t seem to pump enough to be more than one bottle (each) ahead of them.&nbsp; Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we are learning how to tandem feed during the day.&nbsp; That is extremely nice because it buys me more time between feedings.&nbsp; And when they go for 4 hours between feedings at night (like they did last night), they&#8217;ll only go 2-3 hours during the day between feedings.&nbsp; So I enjoy all the time I can get!<\/p>\n<p>Other more fun things about them&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Erin doesn&#8217;t have great control of her eyes yet, but she has a plethora of facial expressions (our drama queen in the making, I guess).&nbsp; And sometimes she&#8217;ll go cross-eyed while making a funny face.&nbsp; Maybe she&#8217;s more a clown in the making&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Alex is already losing his hair.&nbsp; At three weeks, he has a receding hairline&#8230;poor little guy!<\/li>\n<li>They were lying together on the large boppy I use for tandem feedings the other day when Alex flung his arm into Erin&#8217;s space.&nbsp; She didn&#8217;t flinch at all, but since his hand was right there, she started sucking on it for him.&nbsp; Such a giver, huh?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, gotta run&#8230;happy New Year to everyone!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, we had a much better night last night.&nbsp; And thanks for all the encouragement.&nbsp; Also, thankfully, my milk supply is fine.&nbsp; They both seem to be getting enough (at least for now!), but there&#8217;s not much extra.&nbsp; We have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/12\/31\/a-better-night\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}