{"id":9,"date":"2007-06-15T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-07-19T22:29:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T02:29:58","slug":"the-beautiful-smell-of-a-milkfed-infant%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"The beautiful smell of a milkfed infant\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breastmilk-poo is sweet smelling, especially compared to formula-poo (or solid-food-poo!). I probably wouldn&#8217;t make perfume or potpourri from it, but it\u2019s clean and baby-related. It brings home the emotional memory and feeling of cuddling, loving, sweet little infant who hasn\u2019t yet learned that the word \u201cno\u201d could exist, and trusts and loves absolutely\u2026(I do wish, though, it wasn\u2019t quite so <em>sticky!<\/em> Every time he poos, it gets everywhere and clings to everything it touches. Meconium is worse, but there\u2019s something about the consistency that is really icky. I thought a baby girl\u2019s crevices would be tougher to keep clean, but with a baby boy it all gets under the scrotum and you have to move everything around to clean, all the time hoping he doesn\u2019t decide he\u2019d really like to pee before you\u2019ve gotten a fresh diaper on.)<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I feel completely awesome. The delivery went perfectly, he\u2019s a good sleeper, I\u2019ve gotten rest and am proud of myself and my family\u2026 I hope this feeling stays and doesn\u2019t turn into depression.  His smell is part of that good feeling.  Unfortunately, there\u2019s no way I can think of to have the smell of breastmilk-poo on hand regularly \u2014 can you imagine asking an aromatherapy professional to duplicate that scent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breastmilk-poo is sweet smelling, especially compared to formula-poo (or solid-food-poo!). I probably wouldn&#8217;t make perfume or potpourri from it, but it\u2019s clean and baby-related. It brings home the emotional memory and feeling of cuddling, loving, sweet little infant who hasn\u2019t yet learned that the word \u201cno\u201d could exist, and trusts and loves absolutely\u2026(I do wish, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reuven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}