{"id":5963,"date":"2011-06-17T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T15:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2011-06-20T09:48:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T08:48:50","slug":"a-whole-day-looking-after-my-baby-granddaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5963","title":{"rendered":"A whole day looking after my baby granddaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new granddaughter Catrin is now exactly five months old. I&#8217;ve seen her most weeks, but usually just for a couple of hours when I&#8217;ve often taken her out in her pram or more latterly buggy. On two evenings, I have babysat with her to allow her parents to go out together.<\/p>\n<p>This week marked a new development, however, when I looked after her for a full day while both her parents were at work. I was with her almost six hours and alone with her for five hours.<\/p>\n<p>When she woke from her mid-morning nap, I fed her a four-course brunch: baby rice with milk, sweet potato, pear, and papaya, all interspersed with water and finished off with milk. It was slow and messy but she ate it all. Then I changed her nappy and dressed her in a summer outfit.<\/p>\n<p>I took her out for quite a while and we visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitsealife.com\/London\/\">London Sea Life Aquarium<\/a>. She loved it, her little eyes darting around in amazement as she followed the movement of the colourful fishes. She is such a sweetie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new granddaughter Catrin is now exactly five months old. I&#8217;ve seen her most weeks, but usually just for a couple of hours when I&#8217;ve often taken her out in her pram or more latterly buggy. On two evenings, I have babysat with her to allow her parents to go out together. This week marked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6030,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/6030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}