{"id":93,"date":"2004-10-22T21:47:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T01:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/10\/39-weeksand-11-years\/"},"modified":"2004-10-22T21:47:04","modified_gmt":"2004-10-23T01:47:04","slug":"39-weeksand-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/10\/39-weeksand-11-years\/","title":{"rendered":"39 Weeks&#8230;and 11 Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am 39 weeks pregnant, and Denis and I are celebrating our 11th anniversary.  (Of dating, not marriage.)  We were kind of sort of hoping the baby would come today, but that&#8217;s increasingly unlikely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Things I love about being pregnant that I&#8217;m going to miss soon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>seeing her little butt stick out when she moves around<\/li>\n<li>feeling her little hiccups (although I do feel a teeny bit bad that she has them in the first place)<\/li>\n<li>evening baby belly rubs (not that the lotion has done a bit to minimize stretch marks&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Denis pretending my belly button is a microphone to talk to the baby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s so much more than that, but it&#8217;s hard to put into words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There are things I won&#8217;t miss, but nothing too serious.  Well, besides the bedrest.  I won&#8217;t miss that one bit!  (Ask me again, though, when I&#8217;ve gotten 3 hours sleep in the past 48 and the baby&#8217;s still crying&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Chances are, by this time next week she&#8217;ll be here &#8211; and I&#8217;m excited and terrified all at the same time.  I&#8217;m not thrilled with the idea of being induced, but I am thrilled with meeting this little person.  And finally being able to call her by her name rather than &#8220;the baby&#8221;, &#8220;the pumpkin baby&#8221; or &#8220;little bean&#8221;!  (Yes, Grandma, we&#8217;ve picked out her name, and no, we&#8217;re still not telling!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am 39 weeks pregnant, and Denis and I are celebrating our 11th anniversary. (Of dating, not marriage.) We were kind of sort of hoping the baby would come today, but that&#8217;s increasingly unlikely&#8230; Things I love about being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}