{"id":238,"date":"2011-01-03T20:37:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T03:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexanderbrantley.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2011-01-03T20:37:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T03:37:46","slug":"and-it-all-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"And it all started…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today – one year ago. \u00a0I woke up around midnight on Sunday, January the 3rd with what I assumed were Braxton Hicks contractions. \u00a0The contractions woke me up a few times that night, but I got up in the morning and went to church like usual. \u00a0Why wouldn’t I? \u00a0I wasn’t due to have Alex for another two weeks. \u00a0I was positive that what I was going through was not actual labor. \u00a0My mother kept telling me that since she had had both me and my sister two weeks early, I was bound to have Alex two weeks early. \u00a0I tried to tell her that my OBGYN said things like that aren’t necessarily hereditary, but she was pretty adamant.<\/p>\n

So here I am on my blog admitting for everyone to read — she was right! \u00a0I spent most of the day Monday curled up on the couch with my mom waiting for my contractions to be close enough together that I could go to the hospital. \u00a0I don’t know what I would have done without her. \u00a0She rubbed my back, told me I was doing a great job, and did her best to keep my spirits up.<\/p>\n

Early labor was miserable for me. \u00a0I had been bound and determined to go through labor and delivery naturally, but with as much pain as I was in on Monday, I began to worry about if I was going to be able to make it. \u00a0All I wanted at that point was to be admitted to the hospital and deliver a healthy baby. \u00a0My birthing plan didn’t seem to matter as much any more. \u00a0I just wanted this little guy to arrive!<\/p>\n

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To be continued…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today – one year ago. \u00a0I woke up around midnight on Sunday, January the 3rd with what I assumed were Braxton Hicks contractions. \u00a0The contractions woke me up a few times that night, but I got up in the morning and went to church like usual. \u00a0Why wouldn’t I? \u00a0I wasn’t due to have Alex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYkyR-3Q","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivy-witter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}