{"id":824,"date":"2019-12-21T10:10:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T15:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2019-12-21T10:17:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T15:17:16","slug":"my-cuddler-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"My Cuddler Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had the honor of talking about what I do in the NICU as a cuddler and why I decided to do it. I was so nervous leading up to this moment and my body was shaking but I tried to focus on the babies and it helped me stay strong. Years ago I would never be able to talk in front of someone but this day I spoke from my heart and then when the question was asked about my kids my voice began to shake and my eyes filled with tears.<br>The day I received this I couldn&#8217;t hear it. It took a day to sit there with my husband and listen. I was so nervous and my cheeks were tingling and I felt I was turning red.<br>As we were listening by husband&#8217;s eyes began to fill with tears. I&#8217;m not sure if you saw the segment or heard it but I&#8217;m finally able to share it with you. Don&#8217;t make fun of all my singing throughout the segment, I was nervous.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/abcaudio.com\/aw_nicucuddler090919\/\"><br>abcaudio.com\/aw_nicucuddler090919\/ <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcaudio.com\/aw_nicucuddler090919\/\"><br><\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fhhr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/70297604_10158339985444460_8666453059330637824_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&amp;_nc_oc=AQl1XPoylzPGRw9pCH2xnYj64yF7doGwzGrNL49UtVVujb7uzYe8ThJKWyA8zCJ7W20&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fhhr1-1.fna&amp;oh=18d750c027662e9818c6ee5197f5166b&amp;oe=5EA7EB26\" alt=\"Image may contain: 2 people, people sitting\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the honor of talking about what I do in the NICU as a cuddler and why I decided to do it. I was so nervous leading up to this moment and my body was shaking but I tried to focus on the babies and it helped me stay strong. Years ago I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}