{"id":252,"date":"2013-05-12T15:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T07:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/wp\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-05-12T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T07:39:31","slug":"time-flies-when-youre-on-maternity-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Time flies when you&#8217;re on Maternity Leave&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished up work on 24 April and to be honest, I was a little worried about how I would cope with that as I have been very career focused for the last 10 years. However, the last two and a half weeks have whizzed by. I&#8217;m not sure how I used to fit work in to my busy schedule \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>In all\u00a0honesty though, with all the last minute things to do and buy for Eggbert (our pet name for baby), attending various appointments, catching up with friends, doing odd jobs around the house and squeezing in afternoon nanna naps, I am glad I finished work when I did. I&#8217;ll officially be 37 weeks tomorrow, with\u00a0Eggbert due on Monday 3 June &#8211;\u00a0assuming baby wants to come on time!\u00a0I am also getting tired far more easily these days and try not to be out all day, given my sleep at night is broken by several trips to the bathroom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Our nursery is almost complete &#8211; James put up shelves for me today (good handy hubster that he is) and\u00a0now I am just looking for\u00a0a night light\/lamp for the room, oh,\u00a0plus I might make and\u00a0hang some paper pom poms from the roof.\u00a0Then the nursery will be all systems go, although at the moment the plan is for Eggbert to be in our room in a cradle for the first few months, which James also set up today.<\/p>\n<p>So, all in all, I feel like we&#8217;re\u00a0fairly organised for Eggbert&#8217;s arrival which is good as I think the next three weeks will also whiz by and then\u00a0the real adventure begins!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to all those awesome Mums and Mums-to-be out there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished up work on 24 April and to be honest, I was a little worried about how I would cope with that as I have been very career focused for the last 10 years. However, the last two and a half weeks have whizzed by. I&#8217;m not sure how I used to fit work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11,15],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy","tag-eggbert","tag-pregnancy-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}