{"id":5,"date":"2008-01-16T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T17:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-01-17T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T18:02:04","slug":"rubens-second-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Ruben&#8217;s Second Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/images\/week2b.jpg\" alt=\"ruben week 2\" align=\"top\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ruben has just wrapped up his second week, and it&#8217;s been quite a bit like the first but slightly more predictable as we start to get used to what he looks like and sounds like when he needs a sleep as opposed to a feed, or when he just wants a cuddle. Who knew newborns slept so much during the day?! Just as well though as there are still some long stretches of wakefulness throughout the night. I guess that&#8217;ll probably continue for a while yet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/images\/week2c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael has technically gone back to work but seems to make it home a lot earlier these days \ud83d\ude42 Ruben and I are mostly hanging around the house, but some days we manage to complete entire tasks like a load of laundry, the washing up, un-decorating the Christmas tree&#8230; that kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/images\/week2e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ruben is an adorable little guy and still very easy to live with. We hardly ever hear him cry (although he&#8217;s still not totally sold on nappy changes), and he is already surprisingly interactive and engaged. He&#8217;s more and more like a little person every day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/images\/week2d.jpg\" alt=\"ruben week 2\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a very hungry little guy which, of course, means there is plenty coming out the other end and we&#8217;re becoming more and more expert in the art of nappy changing. He&#8217;s giving us plenty of practice, to the point where we had to call the nappy laundry service late last week and ask them to send us extra nappies as he&#8217;d managed to wet and poo his way through all 44 that they originally supplied us. According to the nappy service, being able to get through this many nappies in a single week is pretty impressive and not often done. We&#8217;re very proud.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/images\/week2a.jpg\" alt=\"week 2 b\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All of this eating means lots of growing &#8211; his cheeks are definitely chubbier and his tummy is getting rounder. Teresa, our midwife, has been visiting every other day and on his 2 week anniversary it was time to get back into the little white sling and be weighed again. We were pretty impressed to discover that he&#8217;s now cracked 8 pounds. Good boy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Week three looks to be a week of outings and adventures and being a little more sociable &#8211; stay tuned for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben has just wrapped up his second week, and it&#8217;s been quite a bit like the first but slightly more predictable as we start to get used to what he looks like and sounds like when he needs a sleep as opposed to a feed, or when he just wants a cuddle. Who knew newborns &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/?p=5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ruben&#8217;s Second Week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rubenmurphy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}