{"id":855,"date":"2013-05-17T08:40:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2013-12-16T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:17:56","slug":"its-my-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/its-my-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"“It’s” MY Baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have an \u201cit\u201d problem at our house.\u00a0 With all three pregnancies, since we didn\u2019t find out the gender, we always referred to our bundle as \u201cthe baby\u201d.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always tried to be very careful and not refer to the baby as \u201cit\u201d, however, this has proven much more difficult for many of the people around me.\u00a0 This includes my girls who often asked about the baby and a lot of times used \u201cit\u201d.\u00a0 I never worried about correcting them when baby was in my tummy since I didn\u2019t expect them to understand the s\/he and him\/her.<\/p>\n

However, the \u201cit\u201d has persisted. \u00a0Honeybun\u00a0constantly refers to Doodle as \u201cit\u201d and it drives me crazy!\u00a0 Now that we know what kind of baby we have, I think it\u2019s important to refer to him appropriately.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u201d has such a disconnected connotation.\u00a0 I don\u2019t necessarily see it as a negative or derogatory term but more of a cold, unloving and uncaring term.\u00a0 I realize it\u2019s how she\u2019s associated him for so many months and it\u2019s hard to change habits, especially when so young, but our little guy just deserves a more special place in our family and should be addressed respectfully.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t only fault Honeybun, though.\u00a0 Hubby\u2019s busted out with an \u201cit\u201d remark more than once and we\u2019re also having a possessive problem with Sugarplum who insists \u201cit\u2019s MY baby.\u201d\u00a0 Usually her comment just sparks some lighthearted banter back and forth about who\u2019s baby he is but a few times it has resulted in total meltdowns when I haven\u2019t allowed her to poke at, hold or even carry \u201cHER\u201d baby.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>\u00a0Overall I could not be more thrilled with how our family is adjusting to our new tiny little dude.\u00a0 The girls adore him and want to spend all day holding, singing and poking at him.\u00a0 Though we have had some acting out which I\u2019m sure is a response to me not being as available for them with all the feedings I\u2019ve been doing, we have yet to have any requests that we give him back or put him back in.\u00a0 Sugarplum has asked if SHE can go back in my belly but is happy to finally have Doodle on the outside where we can all enjoy him.<\/p>\n

Picture: \u00a0The girls stroking Doodle’s head after his first traumatic bath experience (at least we live in Florida and can do bath time outside in the warmth!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have an \u201cit\u201d problem at our house.\u00a0 With all three pregnancies, since we didn\u2019t find out the gender, we always referred to our bundle as \u201cthe baby\u201d.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always tried to be very careful and not refer to the baby as \u201cit\u201d, however, this has proven much more difficult for many of the people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}