{"id":104,"date":"2008-01-19T23:50:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/2008\/01\/19\/jonathans-magic-tool\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T23:50:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T14:50:04","slug":"jonathans-magic-tool-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/2008\/01\/19\/jonathans-magic-tool-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan&#8217;s Magic Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/magic-tool.jpg\" alt=\"magic-tool.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Naturally Jonathan fall in love with pacifier. At around 2 months, he developed the urge of sucking. It started one night when I had a hard time putting him to sleep after each feeding as he keeps on rubbing his mouth on the bed. I thought he is still hungry so I breastfeed him again. One breast after another and yet he is not satisfied and still want to suck. It took me hours to comfort\/pat\/sway him to sleep. At times, I got so impatient and spanked him on his buttock. At times, he will wake up after half and hour wanting to suck. In the end, I got no choice but to offer him a pacifier and after that, every night is a peaceful night for me. If I don&#8217;t stuff the pacifier in his mouth, he will start sucking his fingers and ended up sucking his thumb which is very &#8220;dangerous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/thumb.JPG\" alt=\"thumb.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before Jonathan is born, I told myself that I would not give my baby pacifier no matter what. I know that there&#8217;s no harm in giving pacifier to babies as it soothe and comfort them. Some said it stimulates the brain so they will be smarter. But my reason is that I don&#8217;t want to have a hard time weaning him from it and it&#8217;s inconvenient and unhygienic as you have to make sure it doesn&#8217;t fall off when you are outdoor.<\/p>\n<p>Initially the pacifier is to help him to sleep but now, he will cry for it during play time. And I think because of this, he drools nowadays. Gosh, I just hope he won&#8217;t hold on to the pacifier for long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naturally Jonathan fall in love with pacifier. At around 2 months, he developed the urge of sucking. It started one night when I had a hard time putting him to sleep after each feeding as he keeps on rubbing his mouth on the bed. I thought he is still hungry so I breastfeed him again. &#8230; <a title=\"Jonathan&#8217;s Magic Tool\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/2008\/01\/19\/jonathans-magic-tool-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jonathan&#8217;s Magic Tool\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jonathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}