{"id":10024,"date":"2015-10-09T02:46:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T02:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=10024"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:46:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:46:50","slug":"gently-pat-its-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/gently-pat-its-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"gently pat its behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/04\/magazine\/how-to-hold-a-strangers-baby.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;how to hold a stranger&#8217;s baby&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018\u2018Tell the baby your name, and say their name,\u2019\u2019 says Pat Rice, a psychologist who has been volunteering for 19 years as a \u2018\u2018trained cuddler\u2019\u2019 in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lucile Packard Children\u2019s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Try to avoid feeling self-conscious or attempting to impress nearby adults. \u2018\u2018Be more consciously <em>in your heart<\/em> when you\u2019re holding babies,\u2019\u2019 Rice says. &#8230; One of Rice\u2019s go-to moves is to nestle a baby upright against his chest and gently pat its behind. \u2018\u2018That seems to be almost magic,\u2019\u2019 he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from &#8220;how to hold a stranger&#8217;s baby&#8221;: \u2018\u2018Tell the baby your name, and say their name,\u2019\u2019 says Pat Rice, a psychologist who has been volunteering for 19 years as a \u2018\u2018trained cuddler\u2019\u2019 in the neonatal intensive care unit at Lucile Packard Children\u2019s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif. &#8230; Try to avoid feeling self-conscious or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10055,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions\/10055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}