{"id":17,"date":"2006-05-09T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T04:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/lightening-engagement-or-baby-dropping\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T12:58:24","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T17:58:24","slug":"lightening-engagement-or-baby-dropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/lightening-engagement-or-baby-dropping","title":{"rendered":"Lightening, Engagement, or Baby Dropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It usually takes us a few days to recognize the latest changes in Sarah&#8217;s pregnancy. The newest development is that of the baby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drspock.com\/article\/0,1510,6135,00.html\">&#8220;dropping&#8221;<\/a> (also known as lightening or engagement) in preparation for birth. This is typically observed by the increased ease of breathing, and the increased number of trips to the bathroom!<\/p>\n<p>Sarah wasn&#8217;t doing too bad on the breathing side of things, but we definitely know the baby has dropped because of her nightly 11 o&#8217;clock, 12 o&#8217;clock, 1 o&#8217;clock, 2 o&#8217;clock, 3 o&#8217;clock, 4 o&#8217;clock, 5 o&#8217;clock, and 6 o&#8217;clock trips to the bathroom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As of tomorrow, the baby is considered &#8220;full-term&#8221;, and the doctor will likely let him come whenever he feels like it.  Sarah is hoping for sooner.  I hear babies only have to be fed every 2 hours during the night, so I figure I&#8217;ll wake up half as often after he&#8217;s born!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It usually takes us a few days to recognize the latest changes in Sarah&#8217;s pregnancy. The newest development is that of the baby &#8220;dropping&#8221; (also known as lightening or engagement) in preparation for birth. This is typically observed by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/lightening-engagement-or-baby-dropping\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-baby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredman.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}