{"id":1071,"date":"2008-03-27T06:23:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T11:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2008-03-27T06:23:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T11:23:49","slug":"friendship-and-sisterhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Friendship and sisterhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something I never got around to mentioning here in my blog was that my best friend Kel<\/a> had her baby boy, Daniel. Kel and I were due a day apart and she was not yet full term. She ended up with an emergency c-section due to a leak in her waters and the baby being breech, Daniel ended up in the NICU and has a pretty severe infection. It’s been a stressful time for her – and stressful for me too, since she is practically a sister to me and I just can’t handle more bad news in my life.<\/p>\n

And it’s weird, because I would expect to really struggle with this. We were due so close together, our boys were going to be practically cousins. We don’t live close together, but it doesn’t matter to our relationship. It was so wonderful to share pregnancy together, to be looking forward to meeting our boys. We both expected to go a week or two overdue…. we were so sure. So now, with Devin gone… one of my big fears is that I would have to distance myself from her, from her new baby, to maintain my own sanity. Not that she would ever have a problem with that – I know the last thing she wants is to upset me in any way and if I had to avoid her blog, her pictures, her son, she’d understand. But I don’t want<\/i> to have to avoid anything. I’ve lost enough already – the last thing I want is to lose my connection with my nephews too.<\/p>\n

So far I have been okay. Kel and I observed that maybe it’s because Daniel isn’t a full-term healthy baby… he’s in the NICU… and it sounds totally aweful, but maybe that makes it “easier” for me to deal with. He looks a lot like Eric, Kel’s older son… which is good for me too, because he’s very different from Devin.<\/p>\n

I am just so thankful that I have Kel in my life and that we are able to stay close and support each other. It’s such a relief to have one person you can say anything to and not worry about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something I never got around to mentioning here in my blog was that my best friend Kel had her baby boy, Daniel. Kel and I were due a day apart and she was not yet full term. She ended up with an emergency c-section due to a leak in her waters and the baby being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,76,69],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-ivf-3","tag-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}