{"id":3,"date":"2006-12-18T02:26:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notnick.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-02-13T01:12:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T21:12:14","slug":"eight-weeks-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Eight Weeks and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 8 weeks time, I&#8217;m going to be a dad, and Deirdie- my wife- will be a mum. This is the start of my journal of the days ahead. Somewhere to share the lessons I&#8217;ve learnt, and hopefully pick up tips from friends.<\/p>\n<p>At very worse, this site may just end up being my Christmas message to the world because apparently, I&#8217;m going to be quite busy in the future, may be short on sleep and may not always feel like filling this in!<\/p>\n<p>So, 8 weeks to go. Every piece of evidence I can gather definitely points to Deirdie being pregnant and not just putting on weight after all. So far we&#8217;ve had two ultrasound scans, meeting with a midwife and the antenatal classes. Deirdie looks pregnant, her belly is out, and occasionally we see kicks or even limbs moving under her skin.<\/p>\n<p>Proof positive or alien?<\/p>\n<p>The midwife tells us to expect Junior on the February 14th. I think there is some artistic interpretation here. I think any baby born in February is just given that due-date automatically, so that friends &#038; relatives of new parents give an extra big &#8220;ooooh!&#8221; when they&#8217;re told.<br \/>\nAnyway, eight weeks and counting. Fatherhood awaits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 8 weeks time, I&#8217;m going to be a dad, and Deirdie- my wife- will be a mum. This is the start of my journal of the days ahead. Somewhere to share the lessons I&#8217;ve learnt, and hopefully pick up tips from friends. At very worse, this site may just end up being my Christmas &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/?p=3\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eight Weeks and Counting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-front"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}