{"id":290,"date":"2003-11-07T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jake.home.bookerdog.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2003-11-07T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T18:54:00","slug":"why-you-should-never-take-a-pregnancy-test-to-make-yourself-feel-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/2003\/11\/why-you-should-never-take-a-pregnancy-test-to-make-yourself-feel-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should never take a pregnancy test to make yourself feel better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might be positive.<\/p>\n<p>Oops.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to hit you over the head like that, but that&#8217;s pretty much how Tim and I felt about a week and a half ago when we found out.  I was a little late, starting to wonder what was up, and I said, &#8216;Just go and get me a pregnancy test and it will make me feel better when I know that it&#8217;s negative.&#8217;  It was 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s another thing you should never do &#8212; take a pregnancy test before bed so you&#8217;ll sleep better.<\/p>\n<p>Once that second line popped up, there would be no sleep for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>So, it seems that we&#8217;re pregnant.  <\/p>\n<p>And all of my friends are snickering to themselves because I&#8217;ve been so adamant about just having one child.<\/p>\n<p>But two is good, right?  We get to not make the same mistakes we made with the first one.  Or something.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s one reason that I&#8217;ve been so close-mouthed lately.  I knew that I couldn&#8217;t keep just jabbering away about my trip to New York without suddenly typing &#8220;I CAN&#8217;T BELIEVE I&#8217;M PREGNANT!&#8221;\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, if you are a friend who I have not told yet, I apologize that you are learning about this from my blog.  Please know that I&#8217;ve wanted to tell you, but I&#8217;ve been too exhausted and\/or queasy to lift the phone to my ear.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, but now you&#8217;ve got nine months of super-fun kvetching about pains, bodily fluids and expanding body parts to look forward to!   Fun!<\/p>\n<p>Mark your calendars for July 4, 2004.  Baby Clauss, round 2.  This time, it&#8217;s personal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be positive. Oops. Sorry to hit you over the head like that, but that&#8217;s pretty much how Tim and I felt about a week and a half ago when we found out. I was a little late, starting to wonder what was up, and I said, &#8216;Just go and get me a pregnancy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/2003\/11\/why-you-should-never-take-a-pregnancy-test-to-make-yourself-feel-better\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why you should never take a pregnancy test to make yourself feel better&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11xKg-4G","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookerdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}