{"id":245,"date":"2008-10-16T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/10\/some-kind-of-help.html"},"modified":"2008-10-16T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T07:26:00","slug":"some-kind-of-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/10\/some-kind-of-help.html","title":{"rendered":"Some Kind of Help&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doodles: Are Uncle Jon and Alicia having a baby yet?<br \/>Me: Not yet. They only just got married a couple of weeks ago. Even if they had a baby right away, it would still take nine months, remember?<br \/>Doodles: Do you have to be married to have a baby?<br \/>Me: No, you don&#8217;t. But being married first is the traditional way of doing things. Not everyone is married to have a baby, and you don&#8217;t have to be married to have a baby, but if you follow the tradition, you&#8217;ll get married first.<br \/>Pie: Were you married when you had a baby?<br \/>Me: Yes, I was.<br \/>Pie: Why?<br \/>Me: You know, having a baby is really hard work. It helps a lot if you have a partner when you have your baby, to help take care of it.<br \/>Doodles: Yeah, having a baby is <i>really<\/i> hard work. But it&#8217;s also fun. <br \/>Me: That&#8217;s true. And I wanted Daddy as a partner in taking care of a baby.<br \/>Doodles: Hey, Pie, you know what?<br \/>Pie: What?<br \/>Doodles: When I was born, Mommy had a partner. But when <i>you<\/i> were born, Mommy had <i>two<\/i> partners!<br \/>Me: I did?!?<br \/>Doodles: Yes! When Pie was born, Mommy had Daddy <i>and<\/i> me as a partner. It was hard work taking care of you Pie, but I really helped a lot. I gave you bottles of milk. So many bottles of milk. Pie, you drank a lot of milk from bottles [I&#8217;d like to remind everyone here that Pie was never what you&#8217;d call a bottle drinker. She actually <a href=\".\/.\/2006\/01\/school-daze.html\">despised the bottle<\/a>]. Mommy was lucky she had so much help.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess that depends on your definition of help. If by help you mean being a screaming, whining, dawdling, getting in the way pain in the tush two-year-old, yep, Doodles, you were a huge help! Thanks for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doodles: Are Uncle Jon and Alicia having a baby yet?Me: Not yet. They only just got married a couple of weeks ago. Even if they had a baby right away, it would still take nine months, remember?Doodles: Do you have to be married to have a baby?Me: No, you don&#8217;t. But being married first is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doodles","tag-pie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}