{"id":242,"date":"2008-01-18T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:10:29","slug":"introducing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Introducing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/hello-nico.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Nico Marshall Nesson, born 17 Jan 2008, 12:37 pm, 8 lbs and 4.4 ozs <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/nico-and-mama-bec.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Mama Becca is a straight-up champion, enduring some <i>hard<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=241\">labor<\/a> (i.e., &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/solomic12.imeem.com\/music\/keOaUoVC\/sizzla_thank_u_mama\/\">all those pain and suffering<\/a>&#8220;) without the help of drugs or doctors*, and pushing that beautiful baby out in just under 9 hours. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/nico-and-daddy-wayne.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Papa Wayne is happy as a clam. Tired? You bet. But I could stare at lil cutie at day long. Wake up every 45 minutes and walk her around the house? I&#8217;d walk the world for this kid.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye, sleep. Hello, Nico! <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* I can&#8217;t say enough about the wonderful place that is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challiance.org\/ob_gyn\/birth_center.shtml\">Cambridge Birth Center<\/a> and the gentle, caring, and utterly competent midwives and nurses who shepherded us through. Becca spent much of her time in a large bathtub, which worked wonders, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challiance.org\/ob_gyn\/images\/b_cent_vic_ani.gif\">Victorian bedroom<\/a> she gave birth in was a far cry from a hospital ward. Thanks especially to Christley, Irene, Deb, Tiffany, Gretchen, and our indispensable doula, Georgianna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Marshall Nesson, born 17 Jan 2008, 12:37 pm, 8 lbs and 4.4 ozs Mama Becca is a straight-up champion, enduring some hard labor (i.e., &#8220;all those pain and suffering&#8220;) without the help of drugs or doctors*, and pushing that beautiful baby out in just under 9 hours. Papa Wayne is happy as a clam. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[84,403],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-lifey","tag-baby","tag-lifey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8631,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/8631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}