{"id":109559,"date":"2026-05-10T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/the-first-moment-my-children-said-my-name\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:59:46","slug":"the-first-moment-my-children-said-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/the-first-moment-my-children-said-my-name\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Moment My Children Said My Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-358630\">\n<div class=\"entry-content article-body\">\n<div class=\"hero-image hero-image-main hero-image-main3 \">\n<div class=\"one-one-ratio\">\n<div class=\"hero-retio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/my_hallie_1-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-image-hide=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/?attachment_id=358715\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-358715\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/my_hallie_1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Hallie Bateman motherhood comic\" width=\"916\" height=\"2560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/my_hallie_1-scaled.jpg 916w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/my_hallie_1-173x483.jpg 173w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/my_hallie_1-680x1901.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/my_hallie_1-768x2146.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/my_hallie_1-550x1536.jpg 550w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/my_hallie_1-733x2048.jpg 733w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/my_hallie_1-1272x3555.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-offset=\"1\" data-article-image=\"1\" data-article-image-position=\"1\" data-article-image-position2=\"1\" data-article-image-continuo=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/?attachment_id=358716\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-358716\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/My-Hallie-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Hallie Bateman motherhood comic\" width=\"782\" height=\"2560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/My-Hallie-2-scaled.jpg 782w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/My-Hallie-2-680x2226.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/My-Hallie-2-768x2515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/My-Hallie-2-469x1536.jpg 469w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/My-Hallie-2-626x2048.jpg 626w, https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/My-Hallie-2-1272x4165.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Hallie Bateman is a writer, illustrator and twin mom based in Cincinnati, Ohio. She\u2019s the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=109390&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Flists%2Fhallie-bateman-s-books\" target=\"_blank\">four books<\/a>, including the bestselling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=109390&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fp%2Fbooks%2Fwhat-to-do-when-i-m-gone-a-mother-s-wisdom-to-her-daughter-suzy-hopkins%2Fea6e13bb72d94545%3Faid%3D107978%26ean%3D9781632869685%26listref%3Dhallie-bateman-s-books%26next%3Dt\" target=\"_blank\">What To Do When I\u2019m Gone<\/a>. Her Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/halmail.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HALMAIL<\/a>, publishes weekly. You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hallithbates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, if you\u2019d like. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>P.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2024\/12\/06\/baby-photos-comics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baby photos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2025\/07\/30\/how-do-you-mother-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\">how do you mother yourself<\/a>?<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-meta aside-meta\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2026\/05\/08\/first-moment-child-says-moms-name\/#comments\"><\/p>\n<p><span>43<\/span> COMMENTS<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cupofjo.com\/2026\/05\/08\/first-moment-child-says-moms-name\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hallie Bateman is a writer, illustrator and twin mom based in Cincinnati, Ohio. She\u2019s the author of four books, including the bestselling What To Do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}