{"id":99,"date":"2007-03-22T09:33:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2007-03-22T09:33:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T16:33:56","slug":"naptime-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/naptime-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Naptime, again<\/i>?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The development of Ruby’s sleep sign has been surprising: she’s now the one initiating bedtime and naptime.\u00a0 For the past month or so she’s been having a two-hour nap around 2pm, and then going to bed around 8pm.\u00a0 Yesterday, she signed for a nap at 9:30am and then slept for 2 hours.\u00a0 Then she signed for another nap at 2:30pm and slept for another<\/em> two hours.\u00a0 And then she signed for an early bedtime at 7:30pm.\u00a0 Without her signing that it was naptime, we’d have pushed her into cranky-baby stage and then wondered what the hell was wrong.<\/p>\n

Again this morning, she signed for a morning nap, although she didn’t seem particularly sleepy.\u00a0 I have a theory about this, though: since she turned 1, we’ve taken away Ruby’s pacifier.\u00a0 The only time she’s allowed to have it is when her diaper is being changed or when she’s going to sleep.\u00a0 So, my theory is that she’s deliberately signing for a nap just so that she can get some quality time in with her soother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The development of Ruby’s sleep sign has been surprising: she’s now the one initiating bedtime and naptime.\u00a0 For the past month or so she’s been having a two-hour nap around 2pm, and then going to bed around 8pm.\u00a0 Yesterday, she signed for a nap at 9:30am and then slept for 2 hours.\u00a0 Then she signed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}