{"id":909,"date":"2007-11-08T22:31:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T02:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/ttc\/?p=909"},"modified":"2007-11-08T22:31:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T02:31:50","slug":"merlin-update-and-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Merlin update&#8230; and tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m totally exhausted so a quick one today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Was up all night with the cat, doing the fretting mama thing. But after a trip to the vets he&#8217;s really perked up and looks <i>much<\/i> better. He&#8217;s finally eating, which is a big YAY. He&#8217;s even purring and nuzzling our hands. I&#8217;m so glad to start getting my baby boy back. Only problem is that he&#8217;s &#8220;leaking&#8221; urine everywhere he goes&#8230; especially if you pick him up. Yeah, umm&#8230; oops. Heh. He&#8217;s still pretty sick and far from out of the woods, but&#8230; it&#8217;s definitely looking up.<\/p>\n<p>I nearly started crying at the vet&#8217;s office. First they examined him, which was obviously very painful for him, he was growling (which I have NEVER heard him do), then they took him in the back to give him fluids and I could hear him meowing sadly, like he was crying for mama. :cry: I was sitting in the treatment room trying to hold back tears, my poor little boy. Gosh, is this what it&#8217;s going to feel like when it&#8217;s my human baby getting shots or whatever? In the past I&#8217;ve dealt with very scared pets at the vet, and very pissed off pets, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever had to take in a pet that was in so much pain before. I felt like I was betraying him, letting them do things to him that hurt. *I* know it was to make him better and it needed to get done, but you can&#8217;t explain that to a cat. (Though I tried. I was telling him all about how we&#8217;re going to make him better.) But yeah. Very upsetting. :(<\/p>\n<p>::<\/p>\n<p>The human baby is certainly getting stronger kicks every day. This morning in between the vet appointment and work I layed down for a quick nap, and again there was kick after kick as I layed there trying to sleep. It used to be I&#8217;d feel a random kick, then nothing, then another one 10 minutes later. Now there are times where I get a flurry of activity&#8230; Kick kick kick! Like he\/she is trying to make a point or something. It&#8217;s kind of funny.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the big day! I&#8217;m excited&#8230; but the excitement has kind of been brought down several notches due to worry over my kitty. But tomorrow we could actually know who is in there! We&#8217;re very very excited to name him\/her and quit this &#8220;it&#8221; and &#8220;him\/her&#8221; thing. I can&#8217;t even put into words how I feel&#8230;. nervous and excited and wondering if it&#8217;s even going to feel &#8220;real&#8221; to me. It&#8217;s not sinking in right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m totally exhausted so a quick one today&#8230; Was up all night with the cat, doing the fretting mama thing. But after a trip to the vets he&#8217;s really perked up and looks much better. He&#8217;s finally eating, which is a big YAY. He&#8217;s even purring and nuzzling our hands. I&#8217;m so glad to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57,62],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-pregnant","tag-the-furkids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}