{"id":1099,"date":"2008-04-13T00:15:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T04:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2008-04-13T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T14:39:18","slug":"dam-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Dam It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>** Title of post from a magnet I bought today: has a beaver and says &#8220;dam it.&#8221; Tee hee.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I have had a very shakey day today, emotionally. I&#8217;ve been very introspective, a lot of things are weighing on my mind, thinking about babies and Devin a lot. So I&#8217;m off-balance and little things that happen feel like big things. I&#8217;ve cried multiple times this evening, just falling apart pieces at a time. My mom is still here visiting and I still feel like I need to monitor my emotions when around her. I know she would tell me not to, but it&#8217;s hard to let down that guard. So I wait until I&#8217;m alone with Den, even just in the next room, and then I break down. Finally coming to bed, alone in the room, and allowing myself to completely fall apart and cry into my pillow was such a release. I can&#8217;t keep it bottled up inside me. I can&#8217;t keep avoiding the tears.<\/p>\n<p>I felt my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Obsessive-compulsive_personality_disorder\">OCPD<\/a> being more of a problem today. My depression still is not an issue, unless you count the grief that comes and goes &#8211; but personally I think that&#8217;s normal at this stage. The OCPD is one of those funny things though, so subtle sometimes even I don&#8217;t notice what&#8217;s going on. Today we drove up to Vermont just to do some sight-seeing. We hadn&#8217;t made any solid plans for it, but I kind of in my head assumed Den would come with us. Well yesterday he told me he had baseball practice and couldn&#8217;t come. And I was upset about that all day. Not upset like at him&#8230;. but it really raised my anxiety level about driving to Vermont. It&#8217;s really hard to explain. I wasn&#8217;t nervous about going by myself, and I&#8217;m fine with spending time with my mom, but I had <i>expected<\/i> him to go with us, in my head that was the way it was &#8220;supposed&#8221; to be and if he couldn&#8217;t come in then the trip would simply not be enjoyable. I really struggled with that thought all morning, as twisted as it is. I had to keep reminding myself that his presence was <i>not<\/i> a requirement. That&#8217;s what my OCPD is: I feel like things have to happen a certain way, how I picture it will, or I get really upset that it won&#8217;t be worth it. Normally I have it under control and I don&#8217;t struggle with those thoughts anymore, but today was just one of those days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** Title of post from a magnet I bought today: has a beaver and says &#8220;dam it.&#8221; Tee hee. I have had a very shakey day today, emotionally. I&#8217;ve been very introspective, a lot of things are weighing on my mind, thinking about babies and Devin a lot. So I&#8217;m off-balance and little things that [&hellip;]<\/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":[76,69],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ivf-3","tag-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","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=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}