{"id":313,"date":"2011-05-12T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewle.com\/clients\/gingiber\/12-weeks-counting-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-12T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:49:00","slug":"12-weeks-counting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"12 Weeks &amp; Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>So be honest, do you want to hear about\/see pictures of my pregnancy progress? Because I am now 12 weeks along with this little bean, and sure would love to share what&#8217;s going on in my life and mind. Honestly, I am hesitant to write too much, because I know some of you don&#8217;t read this blog to hear about baby stuff. You are probably here because you either like my art, or enjoy decorating, or maybe you just like me? Not sure.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I also like to think of my blog as a bit of a journal. I don&#8217;t remember much of my time being pregnant with Violet, because I was moving, changing jobs, etc., and never recorded any of what I was feeling. So indulge me, will you, if every once and I while I talk in depth about what&#8217;s going on in pregnancy land? Please and thank you!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I am 12 weeks along. I think that I am showing a little bit, but my post Violet baby body could be deceiving me (the pregnancy spare tire strikes again!). I am waiting to feel the flutters, and could have sworn 2 days ago sitting at my office chair that I felt a little something twitch. It probably wasn&#8217;t the baby, but I&#8217;d like to think it was! I&#8217;ve only gained 2 pounds, but feel rather gross, as is the pregnant way! I&#8217;ve been toying with the idea of buying an exercise bike to stay fit, but realistically, not sure if I would use it once I got it! Oh, and I have been falling asleep on the couch around 7 pm most nights&#8230;.. so not the most productive person on earth!<\/p>\n<p>Emotionally, I have been all over the place. I have still small moments where I remember how I felt when I thought I was having twins. I was scared but excited. Sometimes I forget it was a misdiagnosis. Then I reach to touch my tummy and remember that I am barely showing, and that the twin never existed&#8230; (thanks ultrasound technician!) I am thankful for how healthy this pregnancy is going now, but sometimes, I mourn the loss of the twin I will never have? Even though it never was there&#8230;&#8230; I might sound crazy, but that is how I feel.<\/p>\n<p>I am no longer considered a high risk pregnancy, which is a huge blessing! And because of this I have been released from my doctor and will be seeing a midwife! I meet her next week, and she will treat me at every appointment deliver my baby in a hospital (Nathan and I are not prepared for home birth). At this point, I am going to try to have a natural birth, but I might change my mind once I am in full blown labor!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I cannot wait to show more, and to feel this little one kicking inside of me! I just want to soak it all in this go around&#8230;. so thankful for my little one!<\/p>\n<p>Stacie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So be honest, do you want to hear about\/see pictures of my pregnancy progress? Because I am now 12 weeks along with this little bean, and sure would love to share what&#8217;s going on in my life and mind. Honestly, I am hesitant to write too much, because I know some of you don&#8217;t read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}