{"id":284,"date":"2005-07-17T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/17\/week-by-week\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T23:00:44","slug":"week-by-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/17\/week-by-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Week by week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we first started trying to get pregnant, I went to Third Place Books to buy a pregnancy book. They had a pretty scant selection, but I wanted a book, so I chose the best of the lot: an old edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Your-Pregnancy-Week\/dp\/1555612601\/ref=ed_oe_p\/102-4641008-4192919?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1178492448&amp;sr=8-2\">Your Pregnancy Week-By-Week<\/a>. The cover was so repellent (and the &#8220;trying&#8221; so secret) that I immediately covered the book in a brown paper bag cover (like I did with textbooks in school).<\/p>\n<p>We have since bought (and received) better overall pregnancy books, but I still enjoy the emphasis this one has on the developments each week, especially at this point when the developments aren&#8217;t visible.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started a nice little tradition on Sundays, where I sit down and read through the next week&#8217;s chapter. The first day of my last period was on a Sunday, so that&#8217;s when I start the new week. I&#8217;m starting week 7 now, during which Zippy will double in size from ~4mm to ~12mm. It&#8217;s fun to know what&#8217;s happening RIGHT NOW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first started trying to get pregnant, I went to Third Place Books to buy a pregnancy book. They had a pretty scant selection, but I wanted a book, so I chose the best of the lot: an old edition of Your Pregnancy Week-By-Week. The cover was so repellent (and the &#8220;trying&#8221; so secret) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}