{"id":1071,"date":"2010-07-02T17:57:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T00:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2010-07-02T17:57:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T00:57:14","slug":"due-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Due Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still pregnant dear God <em>how is this even possible<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having intermittent Braxton-Hicks contractions for the past few days, which are doing a number on me psychologically, since I am <em>so<\/em> ready to be done with pregnancy that I get excited (and then crushingly disappointed) with each fresh onset of false labor. I have backache, foot and leg pain, <em>various and diverse<\/em> discomforts in the belly and pelvis, and any kind of movement I make&#8212;standing up, lying down, holding still in one position for too long&#8212;seems to hurt some part of my body. In fact I&#8217;m so much more physically uncomfortable than I was at this stage with Robin that I&#8217;m wondering if the extra three years in age has made some kind of crucial difference: am I old now? Is that it? <\/p>\n<p>It helped a little that I went to the doctor today, and while they were monitoring Davy (everything&#8217;s fine) I happened to overhear a couple of other women who were in the antenatal testing unit for problems much more serious than my own velamentous placenta. It really is a reminder that I should be grateful for my good health. And I am, truly. But I would like to have my baby soon. In fact <strong>now<\/strong> would be great.<\/p>\n<p>Some part of my brain is convinced that Davy is waiting until the 4th of July, so that he can be greeted with fireworks. I guess that would be kind of cool, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still pregnant dear God how is this even possible I&#8217;ve been having intermittent Braxton-Hicks contractions for the past few days, which are doing a number on me psychologically, since I am so ready to be done with pregnancy that I get excited (and then crushingly disappointed) with each fresh onset of false labor. I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}