{"id":5667,"date":"2021-05-31T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T10:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2021-05-31T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:45:09","slug":"caring-for-a-newborn-is-very-sacrificial-oluwaseun-owamokele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/2021\/05\/caring-for-a-newborn-is-very-sacrificial-oluwaseun-owamokele","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Caring for a Newborn is Very Sacrificial&#8221; &#8211; Oluwaseun Owamokele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What are your most exciting experiences as a father?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I hold our baby during playtime, and she looks at me with a smile on her face coupled with putting her to sleep on my chest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What were your most traumatic experiences as a new father?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having to watch the bathing of a newborn that&#8217;s so fragile with the thought that she might break, or something might happen\ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you balance work and supporting your new family?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I make sure I get home in good time especially after work and at weekends. I consciously create time for my family and make time for work as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When it comes to raising a child, what&#8217;s the best advice you&#8217;ve ever received and how do you apply or plan to apply that to raising your baby?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Try not to be an absentee father, be part of your child&#8217;s life. I want to be there for our baby while also making out time for my wife. I try as much as possible to bond with her (our baby) whenever I return from work or anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s one piece of practical advice you wish you knew sooner?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caring for a newborn is very sacrificial, it requires much time and attention with lots of sleepless nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are your most exciting experiences as a father? When I hold our baby during playtime, and she looks at me with a smile on her face coupled with putting her to sleep on my chest. What were your most traumatic experiences as a new father? Having to watch the bathing of a newborn that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}