{"id":133,"date":"2006-07-28T22:14:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T03:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=133"},"modified":"2006-07-28T22:14:20","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T03:14:20","slug":"blump-learns-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/blump-learns-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Blump learns tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAs Blump grows in size and strength, s\/he also learns new things. A week or two ago, I felt odd rhythmic movements &ndash; sort of like heartbeats, but far too strong and too slow for a real heartbeat. I couldn&rsquo;t figure out what Blump was up to, but then a while later I read that babies can have hiccups even before birth, so I guess that&rsquo;s what they were.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBlump has also learned to express his\/her dissatisfaction through vigourous kicking. Occasionally I&rsquo;ve lain on the wrong side or at the wrong angle, which has somehow made Blump uncomfortable. Maybe s\/he has ended up lying on an arm, or with a leg in a twist&#8230; don&rsquo;t know. But the feedback has been very clear: Blump thrashes around so the position becomes really uncomfortable for me as well, at which point I turn the other side and we&rsquo;re both happy again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe movements have also become a lot more distinct. Sometimes I can look at my belly and see one side bulge out, and then see the bulge move across the belly, or see the belly stretch with a kick or an elbow jab. It really does look just like the Alien movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Blump grows in size and strength, s\/he also learns new things. A week or two ago, I felt odd rhythmic movements &ndash; sort of like heartbeats, but far too strong and too slow for a real heartbeat. I couldn&rsquo;t figure out what Blump was up to, but then a while later I read that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}