{"id":29,"date":"2008-05-12T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-05-12T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T20:22:22","slug":"40-weeks-plus-some-huge-number-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"40 weeks plus some huge number of days&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think that my body was designed to carry a baby this long.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel like I&#8217;m falling apart.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a small understanding of what guys must feel when they get racked &#8211; every time I move at all my pelvis feels like it is on fire.\u00c2\u00a0 My hands and feet are getting more swollen and painful by the day, and my 8 trips an hour to the bathroom is really taking its toll on my knees.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t complain too much, though.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a beautiful baby at the end of this tunnel.\u00c2\u00a0 Thor is loving this time.\u00c2\u00a0 He and I cuddle on the couch for hours, both contributing to the others lethargy in a way that only a sleeping cat can do.<\/p>\n<p>I had another &#8220;one last date night&#8221; last night to celebrate mother&#8217;s day.\u00c2\u00a0 Technically, I know that I am not a mother yet, but I should have been and my baby is just as old as many other babies that are out of the womb &#8211; I just didn&#8217;t have to hire a baby sitter.\u00c2\u00a0 Adam and I went to the Keg and had a wonderful meal &#8211; talked about where we want to travel and when (we are moving to Singapore at some point).<\/p>\n<p>I have to go to my 41 week midwife appointment.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe the baby will be so excited to see our doctor that it will spontaneously begin labor :)\u00c2\u00a0 I can hope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think that my body was designed to carry a baby this long.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel like I&#8217;m falling apart.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a small understanding of what guys must feel when they get racked &#8211; every time I move at all my pelvis feels like it is on fire.\u00c2\u00a0 My hands and feet are getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jabberwock.shadowpuppet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}