{"id":27,"date":"2008-06-26T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myfaithandjoy.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-06-26T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:29:00","slug":"30-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfaithandjoy.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"30 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/title><meta name=\"GENERATOR\" content=\"StarOffice 8 (Win32)\"><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> \t<!-- \t\t@page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in } \t--> \t<\/style>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">The girls reached 30 weeks today! What a miraculous event – I never thought I’d see the “thirty-something” stage of this pregnancy. Several nurses popped into my room to offer their congratulations on achieving this gestational milestone. I was flattered by their kind attention (I wasn’t even one of their cases today), and was a bit embarrassed by their praise. They commented on doing “such a good job of hanging in there and keeping those babies inside!” Of course, I thanked them for their thoughtfulness and said it was all just a blessing from the Lord, and inside I was thinking… “I didn’t do squat – I just laid here for six weeks!” Too bad not more of life’s problems could be addressed by laying in bed all day! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">I mentioned to several people recently that I’ve actually worried <i>less<\/i> about the pregnancy in recent weeks than I would have, had I been home. I would have been analyzing every ache and pain for significance, whereas now I can just ask to be hooked up to any one of several monitors and I can receive instant reassurance. The real trick is going to be giving over my anxieties and fears to the Lord once the girls are home and <i>I <\/i>am the one who has to monitor their every ache and pain. Being a mom – both before and after birth – comes with a lot more responsibility than I ever expected! I’m so glad that the Lord is willing to bear all those burdens for me. He is an attentive and loving Father, who is ultimately in charge of my whole family. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">The girls reached 30 weeks today! What a miraculous event – I never thought I’d see the “thirty-something” stage of this pregnancy. Several nurses popped into my room to offer their congratulations on achieving this gestational milestone. I was flattered by their kind attention (I wasn’t even one of their cases […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKyNb-r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3,"url":"https:\/\/myfaithandjoy.com\/?p=3","url_meta":{"origin":27,"position":0},"title":"Greetings from UConn Medical Center","author":"Emily","date":"May 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Here we go!\u00a0 I am beginning what I pray will be the first of many pregnancy-related blogs, which will later (much, much later!) transition into a lifetime of baby-related blogs.\u00a0 I am attempting to master the art of typing while lying down, so please allow me a double excuse for\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1128,"url":"https:\/\/myfaithandjoy.com\/?p=1128","url_meta":{"origin":27,"position":1},"title":"Group Shot","author":"Emily","date":"April 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that I\u2019m a little over 38 weeks pregnant and could feasibly (and safely!) deliver any day now, I figured I better get a few last pictures to document this little guy\u2019s growth inside my belly.\u00a0 Here we are, just him and me: And here we are joined by his\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"https:\/\/myfaithandjoy.com\/?p=1128#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"IMG_8247","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/pbarch\/PB\/myfaithandjoy\/a541d295787a_1442F\/IMG_8247_thumb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1181,"url":"https:\/\/myfaithandjoy.com\/?p=1181","url_meta":{"origin":27,"position":2},"title":"Six Weeks","author":"Emily","date":"June 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I was going to wait and do my next Jimmy update at eight weeks, but I feel like he\u2019s changed so much in the last two weeks that his development deserves an interim post.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 At six weeks, Jimmy is: Eating every 3-4 hours during the day (closer to 4\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/myfaithandjoy.com\/?p=1181#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"035","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/pbarch\/PB\/myfaithandjoy\/64069520710a_F676\/035_thumb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11,"url":"https:\/\/myfaithandjoy.com\/?p=11","url_meta":{"origin":27,"position":3},"title":"Belly Busters","author":"Emily","date":"June 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow the girls turn 28 weeks - hooray!\u00a0 I still haven't settled in my mind whether they are starting or completing 28 weeks. 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