{"id":6533,"date":"2019-05-04T21:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T04:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrscaseyann.com\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2024-08-14T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T17:34:55","slug":"40-weeks-1-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/?p=6533","title":{"rendered":"40 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6540\" src=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/e2badcef-ae0a-4c97-9825-4489745ccbd7-1.jpg\" alt=\"Processed with VSCO with a5 preset\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well! Yesterday was my due date. And just writing that out probably needs to be more okay with me, so here I am\u201440 weeks, 1 day, with my now historically late boy pregnancies! \ud83d\ude09 Going past my due date feels like some sort of mental barrier for me to conquer. When I remember that I had ten days of this with Luke, I am speechless.. how we survived, I have no idea!\u00a0Well anyhow, I am experiencing a lot of contracting<!--more-->, things seem quite imminent at the moment but like I said in my last post, I feel sort of suspended mid-air with both feet off the ground until things move along. We have things packed, I&#8217;m making sure dishes are done, all the clothes washed, groceries restocked, cars gassed, my hospital bag handy. But really.. there&#8217;s no perfect time, and he will come when he comes!<\/p>\n<p>I had a high blood pressure reading on Wednesday so I had to be tested for preeclampsia. Thankfully everything came back negative and we all realized that three children will do that to a person \ud83d\ude1b But I spent some time at the hospital for that and thus, the photo diary below.\u00a0Meanwhile, I am trying to stay active, stay awake (so sleepy today!) and rest up for labor. I am already dilated to 3cm and 90% effaced so I suppose I&#8217;ll try and take this slow nightly contracting as great progress and embrace the gradual nature of the process. Whew! Hopefully I&#8217;ll be here again soon with BABY BROTHER PICS!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6539\" src=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/38e19b8f-77e4-4234-9502-b7adfce774f0-1.jpg\" alt=\"Processed with VSCO with a6 preset\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6538\" src=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/838546de-93d3-4a1f-bd4a-a876315aae6b-1.jpg\" alt=\"Processed with VSCO with a6 preset\" width=\"3024\" height=\"2388\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well! Yesterday was my due date. And just writing that out probably needs to be more okay with me, so here I am\u201440 weeks, 1 day, with my now historically late boy pregnancies! \ud83d\ude09 Going past my due date feels like some sort of mental barrier for me to conquer. When I remember that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maternity","category-motherhood"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-08-14-at-1.34.45-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7699,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions\/7699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}