{"id":1107,"date":"2013-07-16T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T18:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2013-12-15T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:19:53","slug":"leaving-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/leaving-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember the first time I left Honeybun\u00a0home, she was a few days old and I ran (quickly!) to Babies \u2018R\u2019 Us to get her some cutie-patootie girlie clothes for when her Grandma and Grandpa met her for the first time as the one girl outfit I had for her was way too big (she wore it for Valentine\u2019s Day when she was 8 months old).\u00a0 Being my first baby, I cried the whole way there.\u00a0 I was gone a whole 40 minutes but we survived.\u00a0 The first time I left her home with daddy while I went to work (she was 6 weeks old) and I was gone long enough that she required a bottle, again I cried.\u00a0 And a week later when I left her at the childcare center for the first time, I cried again.<\/p>\n

\"164854_1511961048519_4775716_n\"<\/a>\u00a0I don\u2019t actually remember the first time I left Sugarplum home; I vaguely remember it maybe being a trip to the grocery store? Clearly a case of the \u201c2nd<\/sup> child\u201d and I know I didn\u2019t cry.\u00a0 The first time I left her to go to an American Women\u2019s Club Meeting.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t cry but was worried the whole meeting about how she was doing.\u00a0 I had left her a cup of expressed milk but despite numerous attempts she had previously refused to take it.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t end up needing it that day and I returned a few hours later to find Hubby on the couch with Sugarplum asleep on his chest and Honeybun\u00a0sitting next to him watching a movie, way past her bedtime.\u00a0 He admitted when Sugarplum\u00a0fell asleep he was afraid she would wake up and not take the milk and\/or have one of her famous screaming fits (see\u00a0“The Scream Heard Around the Neighborhood”<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve left Doodle a few times while running errands near home, doing so with no tears.\u00a0 But yesterday I left him for the first time when I couldn\u2019t rush home if necessary.\u00a0 I actually left him twice yesterday, and I did cry the first time because I didn\u2019t know how long I\u2019d be gone and I was worried he might need the bottle I had begrudgingly prepared. He didn\u2019t need it.<\/p>\n

Then last night I left him home while I went to work.\u00a0 It was the first time he hasn\u2019t accompanied me to teach.\u00a0 Since I only teach 1 hour on Mondays I figured it was better to leave him home as I never feed him while I\u2019m there anyways so I knew he could easily go without feeding during that time.\u00a0 I\u2019ve avoided leaving him home for this short absence not because I worried about how he would do but because I worry about how hubby will cope.<\/p>\n

Monday nights I make dinner and we eat as soon as hubby gets home from work and then I leave to teach and the girls are in bed by the time I get home.\u00a0 This is also Doodle’s most fussy time of the day so I worry about hubby getting overwhelmed by getting the girls to bed especially if Doodle is fussing.\u00a0 Well, we are very lucky Doodle is such an easy going baby because when I got home he was fussing slightly but hubby was cool, calm and collected which made me feel better about being able to leave Doodle in the future.\u00a0 It took me a long time to feel comfortable leaving Sugarplum not because I worried about her but because I worried about the stress she put on hubby.<\/p>\n

It is very true that every child is different but I think it\u2019s even more true that every parent\/child relationship is different and how we cope with each child\u2019s individual quirks, behaviors and temperaments varies widely between each pair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember the first time I left Honeybun\u00a0home, she was a few days old and I ran (quickly!) to Babies \u2018R\u2019 Us to get her some cutie-patootie girlie clothes for when her Grandma and Grandpa met her for the first time as the one girl outfit I had for her was way too big (she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,16,5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-ballerina-mama","category-breastfeeding","category-mommy-time","category-work-it-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}