{"id":1063,"date":"2008-02-28T22:55:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T02:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/my-pregnancy-advice-post\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T23:04:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T03:04:02","slug":"my-pregnancy-advice-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/my-pregnancy-advice-post\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pregnancy Advice Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant? Here&#8217;s my advice for you, in no particular order. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Exercise<\/strong><br \/>\nI was lazy. I coasted by on my current level of fitness, but now I&#8217;m seeing that 9 months of sedation isn&#8217;t the best way to get you excited about geting back into shape after gaining a good 30 pounds or more. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll regret not having been more active. Get a basic <a href=\"http:\/\/health.howstuffworks.com\/how-to-exercise-while-pregnant.htm\">prenatal exercise<\/a> plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noppies<\/strong><br \/>\nBuy a few pairs of <a href=\"http:\/\/tummystyle.com\/detail.aspx?ID=655#\">Noppies trousers<\/a>. These are the most comfortable pants! Admittedly, they&#8217;re a little high-maintenance (I use the hand-wash cycle and they need to be ironed after drip-drying), but they make me feel like a million bucks. Once you start fitting out of your regular clothes, you&#8217;ll pay more to feel good in your maternity clothes. Money spent on nice maternity wear is actually money spent well.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/noppies.jpg' title='Noppies'><img src='http:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/noppies.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Noppies' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Underwear<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldnavy.com\/browse\/product.do?cid=5874&#038;pid=211586\">Cotton underwear<\/a>, and you&#8217;ll want them in a larger size than you normally wear, I think.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ch-ch-ch-changes <\/strong><br \/>\nAvoid the following while you are pregnant<\/p>\n<p><em>Buying new shoes<\/em><br \/>\nWith your feet swelling and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanpregnancy.org\/weekbyweek\/week30.htm\">your bones spreading<\/a>, now is not the time to get a whole new shoe collection. Granted, you may discover you have no choice after the baby comes if your feet don&#8217;t go back to the size they once were. But until you know, don&#8217;t invest too much in preggo footwear. <\/p>\n<p><em>Getting your vision checked\/ordering new glasses<\/em><br \/>\nDid you know your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycenter.com\/0_vision-changes-during-pregnancy_1456567.bc\">vision changes during pregnancy<\/a>? I can definitely tell that. I need to have an annual exam but I&#8217;m waiting till after I deliver. <\/p>\n<p><em>Buying new rings<\/em><br \/>\nAgain, what with all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanpregnancy.org\/pregnancyhealth\/pregnancyswelling.html\">swelling<\/a>, now is not the time to get a ring sized. I&#8217;ve given up on everything but my wedding band, which I&#8217;m sure I couldn&#8217;t get off if I tried. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant? Here&#8217;s my advice for you, in no particular order. Exercise I was lazy. I coasted by on my current level of fitness, but now I&#8217;m seeing that 9 months of sedation isn&#8217;t the best way to get you excited about geting back into shape after gaining a good 30 pounds or more. I&#8217;m sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}