{"id":213,"date":"2008-01-07T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2008-01-07T23:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T03:54:00","slug":"tummy-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Tummy Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have had children or grandchildren recently understand the importance of &#8220;tummy time,&#8221; since the SIDS campaign insists that we always put babies to sleep on their backs to prevent crib death. The funny thing is, Milo used to scream whenever he wasn&#8217;t on his stomach until he was about 2 months old. Now, however, it&#8217;s the other way around. Those helpful baby books recommend baby spends at least 30 minutes per day on his\/her tummy to build neck muscles and develop coordination to roll over, etc. We&#8217;re lucky if we get 3 minutes. This is Milo when first placed on his tummy:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/R4L0yf5xIBI\/AAAAAAAAAGk\/ZLmRJFQ5uzw\/s1600-h\/CIMG2420.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/R4L0yf5xIBI\/AAAAAAAAAGk\/ZLmRJFQ5uzw\/s400\/CIMG2420.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152950072059699218\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#8230; And after about 30 seconds of being on his tummy:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/R4L0yv5xICI\/AAAAAAAAAGs\/wZpHLQ9LSTA\/s1600-h\/CIMG2424.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/R4L0yv5xICI\/AAAAAAAAAGs\/wZpHLQ9LSTA\/s400\/CIMG2424.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152950076354666530\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Sounds of displeasure not included.<\/p>\n<p>But really, here is our wonderful young man, such a good boy. Andrew jokes that Milo sits like that (hands folded neatly on his lap) because otherwise he will receive a spanking. But really, he just discovered how to hang on to things, namely his own hands. So cute!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/R4L20v5xIDI\/AAAAAAAAAG0\/mcYkc0_O64c\/s1600-h\/CIMG2427.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/R4L20v5xIDI\/AAAAAAAAAG0\/mcYkc0_O64c\/s400\/CIMG2427.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152952309737660466\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>And he is becoming such a happy baby (when he is not waking up from a nap)!<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/R4L20_5xIEI\/AAAAAAAAAG8\/2zm6z359-Ic\/s1600-h\/CIMG2429.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_kvSax_73_fg\/R4L20_5xIEI\/AAAAAAAAAG8\/2zm6z359-Ic\/s400\/CIMG2429.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152952314032627778\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>He laughs all the time, especially at Andrew. Of course, so do I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have had children or grandchildren recently understand the importance of &#8220;tummy time,&#8221; since the SIDS campaign insists that we always put babies to sleep on their backs to prevent crib death. The funny thing is, Milo used to scream whenever he wasn&#8217;t on his stomach until he was about 2 months &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tummy Torture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}