{"id":7331,"date":"2010-01-19T07:45:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2010-01-19T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T07:24:56","slug":"baby-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/01\/19\/baby-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a newborn baby joins your family unit, the changes and transformations at home aren\u2019t just centered on your spending habits, shared time with your partner, or meal times. One thing that visibly changes is the way you converse!<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, since Hannah\u2019s joined us, the both of us have digressed in our speaking habits. We baby talk to Hannah, and at times when we forget ourselves, we baby talk to each other too LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a small sampling of the sort of things we say to Hannah. Ling goes like this during her feeding times:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cOK Hannah, time for your milk milk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWas that a burp burp\u2026?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I wake her up every morning and play with her before heading to work:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cHow are you feeling today, girl girl?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cOK girl girl \u2013 sit sit your bum bum here!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re repeating every other key word, and I wonder what that kind of conversation pattern that is! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a newborn baby joins your family unit, the changes and transformations at home aren\u2019t just centered on your spending habits, shared time with your partner, or meal times. One thing that visibly changes is the way you converse! Specifically,<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/01\/19\/baby-talk\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Baby Talk<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}