{"id":83,"date":"2006-05-02T16:19:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T21:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/one-week-after-delivery\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T21:44:42","slug":"one-week-after-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2006\/one-week-after-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"One week after delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t expecting to feel as good as I do just one week after giving birth. Of course, I&#8217;m still moving pretty slowly and feeling sore at times, but it is much better than I expected. Here are some things I&#8217;m already enjoying about my newly non-pregnant body: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;m about 20 pounds lighter that I was a week ago.<br \/>\n* I can touch my toes.<br \/>\n* I can give Jon a real hug again, now that my basketball-belly has shrunk to softball-size.<br \/>\n* I love my eight-times-daily &#8220;oxytocin rushes&#8221;:\/news\/2006\/milk-face\/.<br \/>\n* The bruises on my face from pushing are totally gone, as is the slight bit of facial swelling from late-pregnancy water-retention.<br \/>\n* I can comfortably lie on my back.<br \/>\n* We actually got about six hours of sleep last night, which felt amazing.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m feeling pretty good! Not to mention the fact that we have a &#8220;totally adorable daughter&#8221;:\/news\/choice-photos\/ to stare at constantly!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image86\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/IMG_0607.JPG\" alt=\"Ann loves Lucy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t expecting to feel as good as I do just one week after giving birth. Of course, I&#8217;m still moving pretty slowly and feeling sore at times, but it is much better than I expected. Here are some things I&#8217;m already enjoying about my newly non-pregnant body:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}