{"id":599,"date":"2006-09-04T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2006-09-04T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T11:55:00","slug":"announcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2006\/09\/04\/announcing\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the day, when we were trying to conceive for the first time, I spent an inordinate amount of time dreaming up ways to announce my pregnancy. First, I was going to tell everyone in the thank you cards I sent out for our wedding gifts, then I was going to tell everyone at Thanksgiving, then I dreamt of announcing it in our Christmas cards that year. I imagined telling Beloved for his birthday in December, pictured announcing it on Christmas Eve, and even thought that the news might make a lovely birthday gift for my mother in February.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I was foiled every time. Those were the dark days of infertility.<\/p>\n

And then with Tristan, because everybody knew we were going through the in vitro<\/em> treatment, although there was a lot of joy involved in announcing his conception and my pregnancy, we had lost the element of surprise.<\/p>\n

That’s why announcing my pregnancy with Simon <\/a>was such fun. It was as much a shock to us as it was to the rest of the world, and I had fun playing with the element of surprise.<\/p>\n

With frostie last month, it was fun to once again be dreaming up all kinds of ways to announce to you all that I was pregnant … right up until I took the test that turned out to be negative (and my period arrived like – well, like a period at the end of that sentence).<\/p>\n

All this to say, I’ve spent more time than the average girl thinking about innovative ways to announce a pregnancy. And yet, when I really need some inspiration, my mind is completely blank. My muse has left the building.<\/p>\n

Well, a picture is worth a thousand words, right?<\/p>\n

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How about that? I’m pregnant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the day, when we were trying to conceive for the first time, I spent an inordinate amount of time dreaming up ways to announce my pregnancy. First, I was going to tell everyone in the thank you cards I sent out for our wedding gifts, then I was going to tell everyone at … Continue reading “Announcing….”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}