{"id":687,"date":"2013-05-09T09:02:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=687"},"modified":"2013-09-26T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T21:43:34","slug":"a-labor-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/09\/a-labor-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Labor of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/021_21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1509 alignleft\" alt=\"021_21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/021_21-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/021_21-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/021_21-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/021_21-167x250.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/021_21-390x585.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/021_21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I have a very relaxed view of labor.\u00a0 I am not concerned about it in the slightest. \u00a0I am not afraid of the \u201cpain\u201d or worry about how I\u2019m going to cope.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019m the opposite.\u00a0 I revel in every contraction, knowing that intense sensation is a journey bringing me closer to my baby.\u00a0 As each contraction builds and gets stronger than the next, my soul smiles bigger and bigger knowing my body is doing something incredibly remarkable and that my life is about to change.\u00a0 Giving birth is one of the most rewarding things I\u2019ve ever done.\u00a0 Nothing has shaped my life more than that moment where I look into my child\u2019s face for the first time and realized I know nothing about them and have a lifetime of learning to do.\u00a0 The only fear I feel as my body moves along this incredible voyage is the fear that it will all stop and my journey will be delayed and my final destination not reached as quickly as I hope.\u00a0 All I can focus on is that moment when my child will be in my arms and mine forever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very relaxed view of labor.\u00a0 I am not concerned about it in the slightest. \u00a0I am not afraid of the \u201cpain\u201d or worry about how I\u2019m going to cope.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019m the opposite.\u00a0 I revel in every contraction, knowing that intense sensation is a journey bringing me closer to my baby.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}