{"id":16,"date":"2007-03-04T08:58:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-03-04T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T16:58:03","slug":"week-18-fetal-age-16-wks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Week 18 (Fetal Age: 16 Wks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I definitely have a bulging tummy now, but it&#8217;s disguised by my natural, ahem, ample curves: I don&#8217;t think the average person on the street realizes I&#8217;m preggo.<\/p>\n<p>My baby books say the kidlet is five inches long, which sounds like not a lot, but if you measure it out and stare at it, it *looks* like a lot of baby to have sharing space with one&#8217;s intestines.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gained six and half pounds, which is less than what the baby books say I should have gained at this point (ten to thirteen pounds is the official benchmark), but I think this is OK, as women who were overweight at the beginning of pregnancy are recommended to gain less in total.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not doing anything stupid like dieting; I&#8217;m eating what I want, when I want.\u00a0 So far there&#8217;s no real food cravings, but I do find that fruits and veggies are looking unusually good, and big chunks of meat are just completely unappetizing.<\/p>\n<p>Sam pointed out that I&#8217;m nearly halfway through pregnancy, a fact I find kind of mindblowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I definitely have a bulging tummy now, but it&#8217;s disguised by my natural, ahem, ample curves: I don&#8217;t think the average person on the street realizes I&#8217;m preggo. My baby books say the kidlet is five inches long, which sounds like not a lot, but if you measure it out and stare at it, it [&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\/16"}],"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=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}