{"id":1116,"date":"2011-01-20T04:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T04:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2011-02-01T07:13:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T07:13:36","slug":"reed-vs-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/2011\/01\/reed-vs-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Reed vs. Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reed and Ali are already SO different!\u00a0 I don’t really believe in comparing your children to one another, but it is hard not to do right now when there are such stark differences.<\/p>\n

Reed was terrible at nursing and many times I didn’t think we would make it. Ali is awesome.\u00a0 She loves to nurse and sometimes I think she would stay there all the time if I let her.\u00a0 One point for Ali<\/p>\n

Reed didn’t spit up once.\u00a0 In the beginning Ali spit up a little after every feeding.\u00a0 It wasn’t a lot and her doctor thinks its because I am just making too much for her to swallow, but we have no experience with a spitter.\u00a0 I never have a burp cloth around and we really don’t even own that many, much less any bibs.\u00a0 I don’t think I have a single one for her!\u00a0 One point for Reed<\/p>\n

Reed was a fussy sleeper.\u00a0 Looking back it is probably because he wasn’t getting enough to eat and he was hungry most of the time.\u00a0 Ali is an AWESOME sleeper!!\u00a0 She consistently eats before I go to bed (10:30ish) and only wakes up at 2:30 and 5:30.\u00a0 She nurses and goes right back to sleep.\u00a0 One point for Ali (that one should probably count for 2 or 3!)<\/p>\n

You want to know why Ali wins the comparison for this age?\u00a0 She is a cuddler!!!\u00a0 From the day Reed was born (literally, the first time I held him he tried to wiggle out of my arms) he was a wiggly boy and refused to cuddle.\u00a0 Even now I have to trick him into giving me a hug and kiss.\u00a0 Ali is a big snuggler and I think she would lay on my shoulder all day long if I let her.\u00a0 Thank the Lord for small favors!!!<\/p>\n

Overall Ali is much easier, but I’m sure it is also because I am much more comfortable with newborns.\u00a0 Luckily, this isn’t a contest and I love them both more than I thought possible!!\u00a0 All that worry about how we were going to handle a toddler and a newborn haven’t been a big deal…YET!\u00a0 I know the fun is just beginning \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Reed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Reed and Ali are already SO different!\u00a0 I don’t really believe in comparing your children to one another, but it is hard not to do right now when there are such stark differences. Reed was terrible at nursing and many times I didn’t think we would make it. Ali is awesome.\u00a0 She loves to nurse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alison","category-julie","category-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}