{"id":2031,"date":"2007-08-27T12:34:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/08\/27\/happy-due-date-to-me\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:39:30","slug":"happy-due-date-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/08\/27\/happy-due-date-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Due Date To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is the due date for Little One. The majority of babies do <em>not<\/em> debut on their due date, but I thought it worth noting here. <\/p>\n<p>I have allergies to something in bloom &#8212; chenopods, I believe &#8212; so my ears are clogged, my nose stuffy and runny, my throat is sore, and I sneeze. It&#8217;s gotten worse since last week. I occasionally pop a Benadryl (which actually does make the sore throat better); since I don&#8217;t really have much to do, spending my days feeling drowsy doesn&#8217;t much matter. But these symptoms on top of the final whale stage of pregnancy reinforce my desire to stay home.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I felt enervated, occasionally queasy, slight cramps, and the usual &#8220;practice&#8221; contractions. I lost my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?source=ig&#038;hl=en&#038;q=mucous+plug&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">mucous plug<\/a>, too. (That&#8217;s probably more than you wanted to know.) This event sometimes precedes labor by a few days, but it&#8217;s also possible to lose the plug and go for a couple more weeks before starting labor. Husband and I lay about on the sofa and then took a very long nap in the afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s to do list:<br \/>\nLaundry (small load)<br \/>\nNap<br \/>\nRead<br \/>\nPet the cat<br \/>\nRun dishwasher<br \/>\nWatch a stupid movie (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0417148\/\">Snakes On a Plane<\/a>)<br \/>\nRest<br \/>\nRest<br \/>\nRest<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life&#8217;s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Joseph Addison<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is the due date for Little One. The majority of babies do not debut on their due date, but I thought it worth noting here. I have allergies to something in bloom &#8212; chenopods, I believe &#8212; so my ears are clogged, my nose stuffy and runny, my throat is sore, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11525,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}