I recently came across an old “what-I-would-have-done-if-I-knew-then-what-I-know-now” blog entry about pregnancy. I don’t believe we ever posted it, but I think I made some good points:<\/p>\n
I would have stopped stressing about my expanding waistline and worrying about whether I would get any sleep once the baby arrived. And I would have talked non-stop to my belly, telling it that I just couldn’t wait to meet\/hug\/hold\/laugh with her. I guess you can say I’ve learned a lot because of Zoe – and maybe I’ll get to apply what I learned next time around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, this time around – how did I do? I definitely stopped stressing about my weight at some point (I started avoiding the scale a few months ago), and I also haven’t worried quite as much about caring for the newborn and suffering from sleep deprivation. (We can get through that, I think.) What I haven’t done though is talk to my belly or even, as mentioned before<\/a>, felt much of a connection to what’s inside. Like with my first pregnancy, I have a hard time imagining what the baby will be like and so it’s difficult to feel bonded to her in a meaningful way. But I also know from last time that this will change the minute the baby is plunked on my stomach – and I just can’t wait for that moment!<\/p>\n
-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently came across an old “what-I-would-have-done-if-I-knew-then-what-I-know-now” blog entry about pregnancy. I don’t believe we ever posted it, but I think I made some good points: I would have stopped stressing about my expanding waistline and worrying about whether I would get any sleep once the baby arrived. And I would have talked non-stop to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34two-and-a-half-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}