{"id":10,"date":"2007-04-30T13:07:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T18:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-04-30T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T18:07:22","slug":"inflating-the-hindenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Inflating the Hindenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, Reuven&#8217;s 30-week ultrasound estimated his weight at just over 3 pounds.  They also estimate that he&#8217;ll be just under 7 pounds when he&#8217;s born.<\/p>\n<p>While I am fond of the idea of a small baby (as opposed to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/02\/01\/mexican_giant_baby\/\">15-pounder<\/a>, or the world-record heaviest viable baby on record: 22 lb 8 oz <span style=\"font-style: italic\">[Guinness Book of World Records]<\/span>), I can&#8217;t help but be disturbed by the idea that my stomach is going to double in size in the next six weeks.  It already hurts.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/theJewishWoman\/article.asp?AID=337678\">spirit of patience and humility<\/a>, however, I have decided to look forward to the day AFTER he is born, when I will once again be able to roll over, hold more than a teaspoon of urine in my bladder, and walk without a waddle.  (I just wish I was better at patience and humility.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, Reuven&#8217;s 30-week ultrasound estimated his weight at just over 3 pounds. They also estimate that he&#8217;ll be just under 7 pounds when he&#8217;s born. While I am fond of the idea of a small baby (as opposed to a 15-pounder, or the world-record heaviest viable baby on record: 22 lb 8 oz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cranky-rant","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altschuls.net\/erica\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}