{"id":657,"date":"2012-02-07T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2012-04-24T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T22:42:52","slug":"wiggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post657","title":{"rendered":"Wiggles…"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is something incredibly amazing and awe-inspiring about being able to feel an unborn child inside of you.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>(Baby Boothe 12\/27\/2012. Two days later, s\/he was in the much more respectable pose that I used for our announcement blog.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The range of emotions that swell up in me each time I feel movement is like I never felt before-at least not all at once.<\/p>\n

Part of it is a little mysterious. Like a little secret you hold on to; only you know what’s going on. The reason why I smile in the middle of an otherwise boring training. Or stop and pause for a moment because I want to savor the moment.<\/p>\n

Part of it is terrifying. Who am I to be attempting to raise a child? All the “What if?”s and things that could go wrong (and in my life, usually seem to do).\u00a0 Fear for being responsible for a tiny, helpless being, who one day must be a functioning, contributing member to society in a world that seems to increasingly grow in insanity by the minute.<\/p>\n

Mostly, though, it is pure joy. Wonderment. Ecstasy. Because I know there is a little life in there when four and a half months ago, there was nothing but me. Amazement at the rapid growth. The miracle of life. And this time, I get to be a part of it.<\/p>\n

Despite all the many difficult symptoms I have\/am experiencing, it feels so worth it all. Because I already have such incredible hope and love for this unborn child. Each and every extra wiggle, kick, or stretch I can feel just reminds me that my baby is there, and for now, is safe and doing well.<\/p>\n

Now, I just hope I can hold to that thought and joy in four months from now when wiggles are full blown kicks and stretches under my rib cage in the middle of the night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is something incredibly amazing and awe-inspiring about being able to feel an unborn child inside of you. (Baby Boothe 12\/27\/2012. Two days later, s\/he was in the much more respectable pose that I used for our announcement blog.) The range of emotions that swell up in me each time I feel movement is like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}