{"id":16,"date":"2008-03-18T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/16\/the-monster-stirs"},"modified":"2008-03-18T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T20:48:37","slug":"the-monster-stirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/16\/the-monster-stirs","title":{"rendered":"The Monster Stirs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey-Ho Webbies,<\/p>\n<p>I am now one day shy of my 33rd week of pregnancy, and most of the time I still can&#8217;t believe it. I mean 13 months of trying and a PCOS diagnosis had geared me up for a long fertility war, then first cycle on Clomid and  Bamm!\u00a0<em> <\/em>bouncing baby boy comin&#8217; our way. Oh, had I forgotten to tell you that Webbies? It&#8217;s most definitely a boy, 4 ultrasound techs better not be wrong with all the blue I&#8217;m buyin&#8217;. And wowzer with the buying. I live far from family and my friends here are all male, so no shower of gifts upon me, although The Mom did get us a rocker\/ottoman combo and a diaper bag filled with baby wipes and butt paste and stuff. Everything else though is being bought and paid for by &#8216;Da Fox and I. Babies are pretty expensive creatures I have found out. Not that I&#8217;m complaining too much though. I do so love spending money. I keep getting cute things in the mail that I ordered. It&#8217;s like every other day is Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>We are of course preparing for the kitlet in more mental ways too. Taking the childbirth prep course, reading up on breastfeeding, and totally freaking out at the thought of a 4 year old trying to slide down the banister in our house. That last ones not really true, I only had a minor freak out. In fact I&#8217;ve been remarkably calm most of the pregnancy. I worry a lot,  but I don&#8217;t really have hysterics. I worry about him being a geek, or being a jock. I worry about his relationship with his grandparents, or lack there of. I worry about him finding his passion in life and I worry about turning him neurotic. I suppose most of these are normal, but they are still there. And these don&#8217;t even count the stupid worries like: How will he and the cat get along? How old will he be when he falls into the creek by our house? (Because I know at some point he&#8217;s going to.) How can he learn to ride a bike on the hill we live on? How in the heck am I going to be able to push him out?!? You know stupid stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>I worry about the last one because we have been told to expect a 9 to 10 pounder. I believe the first doctor exact words were &#8220;He&#8217;s Humongous.&#8221; And my normal OB said we were &#8220;Doomed&#8221;. My ob made that observation because I was 9lbs 3ozs at birth and &#8216;Da Fox was over 11lbs. Still not encouraging. At this weeks appointment she said she hoped he would come early, and if he&#8217;s on track to be 10lbs I&#8217;m not arguing with her too much. We&#8217;re in wait and see mode currently, so we&#8217;ll&#8230; well you know. Oh and for those of you wondering, nope, no gestational diabetes, I&#8217;m just growing him big. That&#8217;s about it for now. I&#8217;ll try to write more later.<\/p>\n<p>Keep Surfing Webbies and may all your Imaginings be Fertile!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Stara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey-Ho Webbies, I am now one day shy of my 33rd week of pregnancy, and most of the time I still can&#8217;t believe it. I mean 13 months of trying and a PCOS diagnosis had geared me up for a long fertility war, then first cycle on Clomid and Bamm!\u00a0 bouncing baby boy comin&#8217; our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-fertility","category-friends","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}