{"id":379,"date":"2007-08-29T16:23:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T23:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2007-08-29T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T23:30:55","slug":"to-the-left-to-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"To the left, to the left&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070829\/hl_nm\/stress_mothers_dc_1;_ylt=Au51NJ0NoF7sZe1u._onLcgE1vAI\">this article <\/a>about how you can tell if a mother is stressed out or prone to depression if she cradles her baby to the right. After an initial muscle memory refresher, I realized I cradle babies (admittedly, not my own) to the left. Phew. <\/p>\n<p>But then it got me thinking. Could this be due to the fact that most right-handed people cradle to the left, and left-handed people cradle to the right, and maybe left-handed people are more prone to stress and depression? Nope. The study found no correlation between which hand is your prominent one and which way you crade.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m wondering if new mothers who cradle their babies to the right are more stressed out because they have tied up their right hand (and the majority of them are right-handed, right?) and aren&#8217;t able to get as much done when they are holding the baby. Me, when I&#8217;m holding a baby (again, not that I have one that&#8217;s technically &#8220;mine&#8221; yet), I shift everything to the left so I&#8217;m still free to talk on the phone, grab a snack, pick my nose, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s this article about how you can tell if a mother is stressed out or prone to depression if she cradles her baby to the right. After an initial muscle memory refresher, I realized I cradle babies (admittedly, not my own) to the left. Phew. But then it got me thinking. Could this be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}