{"id":83,"date":"2011-06-20T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2011-06-30T19:44:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T00:44:23","slug":"introduing-alexandria-dorothea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Alexandria Dorothea!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Alexandria<\/a>

Born June 16th, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

On June 13th I went to see the midwife. I was 39 weeks 4 days based on my original due date and was very sore and tired. I had been having contractions on and off for over a week. I asked the midwife if there was anything that I could try to get labor started. She did a cervical check and said I was 3cm dilated and about 60% effaced. She said she good do a strech and sweep and that it might get things going. On June 15th I went to see my obstetrician (do to a history of problems I am under shared care). She did a cervical check and said I was 4cm and 75%. She decided to do another sweep. That was at about 3:30pm. Well I guess it worked because by 6:30 I was having contractions about every 7 minutes. They continued to get stronger and by 9:30 they were painful and every 4-5 minutes. So we packed up the boys and dropped them at Nana and Papa’s and headed to the hospital. When he y checked I was 5cm and fully effaced (about 10:30pm). So things were moving but slowly. They offered to break my water but I wasn’t sure about that because it speeds things up A LOT and the pain comes a lot faster. At a little after midnight with no real progress I got tired of waiting and decided to have my water broken. The doctor came in around 2:30am and broke my water.\u00a0 At 4:46 am Alexandria Dorothea came into this world with the help of my wonderful midwives!<\/p>\n

She was born weighing 7lB 9oz and 54cm long. She is doing great. She has a little bit of jaundice but otherwise is well. Also she is well loved and protected by her proud older brothers Cameron and Nathanial. Like any little girl at 4 days old she is well under way to be daddy’s little girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 13th I went to see the midwife. I was 39 weeks 4 days based on my original due date and was very sore and tired. I had been having contractions on and off for over a week. I asked the midwife if there was anything that I could try to get labor started. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}