{"id":1093,"date":"2011-08-03T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2012-01-21T21:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T03:06:54","slug":"wont-be-long-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"Won’t Be Long Now…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Working through a contraction<\/em><\/p>\n

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… which ultimately lead nowhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So for those of you to whom I’ve cried “wolf” over the past week or so- sorry. No baby. He is clearly still cooking and I’m clearly okay with that (having refused three offers of induction despite being only 37, 37 1\/2, then 38 weeks along). I’ve now reached the point where I had given birth to Oliver… he was 10 days early. What I had not anticipated was round after round of intense contractions which then stop after hours of trickery. I mean the kind of contractions that stop me in my tracks and make me shout in my head “SHUT UP!!!!!!” to everyone within a mile radius of earshot. Yeah. I’m pleasant right now.<\/p>\n

But, just as suddenly as they start, these little bouts of uterine disruption end, and I am back to just chugging along. Feeling hiccups and sidelong kicks and the churning of elbows and knees. Not yet, mama. Maybe when it is not 103 degrees outside. Maybe when you get the bathrooms clean again. Maybe when the one OB with whom you feel comfortable is on call. Maybe when Oliver actually takes a nap. Maybe when the cows come home.<\/p>\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n

And at this rate, I feel absolutely, 100% NOT confident that I will know what real labor is until I am 9cm dilated and my water breaks and the baby is waving to us from between my legs (sorry, gross) and Andrew will have to get his “oven mitts” on and catch the little rascal on our kitchen floor. Hope. Not. And this is my THIRD kid!<\/p>\n

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One DAY of harvest… we do this every week<\/em><\/p>\n

But, in other news, our garden has been bountiful in some ways (see: 12,987,766,337,254,442 peppers and cucumbers) and unsatisfactory in others (tomatoes, eggplant, squash, and raspberries) thanks to squirrels and heat. We already have some ideas for eradicating this problem (squirrels, not heat) next summer…<\/p>\n

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Like teaching our sensitive young budding musician the art of blow-dartery. Think he’s game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working through a contraction … which ultimately lead nowhere. So for those of you to whom I’ve cried “wolf” over the past week or so- sorry. No baby. He is clearly still cooking and I’m clearly okay with that (having refused three offers of induction despite being only 37, 37 1\/2, then 38 weeks along). … Continue reading “Won’t Be Long Now…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[55,171],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-living","tag-pregnancy","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}