{"id":12394,"date":"2014-05-20T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=12394"},"modified":"2014-05-20T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:11:17","slug":"wheres-babys-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2014\/20140520-12394.htm","title":{"rendered":"Where’s baby’s bottle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep a doll in my office to demonstrate breastfeeding. I keep it behind my desk because it’s really there for demo, not for children to play with. But that doesn’t stop children from wanting to play with it. <\/p>\n

Generally, I let the children play.<\/p>\n

One child, however, had a serious question: “Where’s this baby’s bottle?”<\/p>\n

\"My<\/p>\n

I told her that this baby didn’t have a bottle, that this baby was breastfed. <\/p>\n

At first, mom tried to find something else in my office to take the place of a bottle. Could her daughter use the banana from the puzzle as the baby’s bottle?<\/p>\n

She tried, but the banana just didn’t quite work. <\/p>\n

Mommy realized that she’d just about missed a teachable moment.<\/p>\n

“That baby doesn’t use a bottle. She gets milk from her mommy.”<\/p>\n

Child’s eyes got wide – her mind was blown.<\/p>\n

Milk from mommy? What a novel thought.<\/p>\n

Small steps towards normalizing normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep a doll in my office to demonstrate breastfeeding. I keep it behind my desk because it’s really there for demo, not for children to play with. But that doesn’t stop children from wanting to play with it. Generally, I let the children play. One child, however, had a serious question: “Where’s this baby’s … Read more Where’s baby’s bottle?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12418,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12394\/revisions\/12418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}