{"id":26,"date":"2005-05-26T02:40:23","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-05-26\/26"},"modified":"2005-05-28T02:09:43","modified_gmt":"2005-05-27T17:09:43","slug":"babies-can-certainly-be-surprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-05-26\/26","title":{"rendered":"Babies can certainly be surprising&#8230; to the uninitiated."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"\/blog\/2005-04-01\/2\">previous post<\/a> I'd\nnoted that something called &#8220;<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.dhmedical.com\/300ctcaunke1.html\">blue chux<\/a>&#8221; (AKA\n&#8220;disposable pads&#8221;) are <span class='nobr'>a wonderful<\/span> gift for new parents, who\ndespite being told numerous times do not fully appreciate how much and from\nhow many places babies can leak and otherwise expel bodily fluids. <\/p><p>\nRecently, <span class='nobr'>I'd sent a<\/span> case of them to <span class='nobr'>a friend<\/span> who'd just had <span class='nobr'>a baby,<\/span> and <span class='nobr'>a\nmonth<\/span> later he wrote me:<\/p> <blockquote>\n\n<b>By the way, the disposable waterproof sheets are, by far, the most\nuseful baby gift. Thank you thank you for sending them. <span class='nobr'>I didn't<\/span> know that\nbabies are capable of projectile pooping and mischievous peeing.\n<\/b><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Projectile pooping and mischievous peeing &ndash; things that all parents\nbecome well aware of, but non-parents know little about. <b>\ud83d\ude42<\/b><\/p>\n\n<br clear=\"all\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post I'd noted that something called \"blue chux\" (AKA \"disposable pads\") are a wonderful gift for new parents, who despite being told numerous times do not fully appreciate how much and from how many places babies can leak and otherwise expel bodily fluids. <\/p><p> Recently, I'd sent a case of them to a friend who'd just had a baby, and a month later he wrote me:<\/p> <b>By the way, the disposable waterproof sheets are, by far, the most useful baby gift. Thank you thank you for sending them. I didn't know that babies are capable of projectile [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}