{"id":1424,"date":"2006-03-02T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2006\/03\/a-kid-to-the-max\/"},"modified":"2006-03-02T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T16:45:00","slug":"a-kid-to-the-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/a-kid-to-the-max\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kid to the Max"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is my middle boy, now 6’2″ and quite the young man. Tonight Ned and I will be attending our first high school presentation for incoming — ulp — 9th graders! Is this the little boy I carried? I don’t remember getting older!<\/p>\n

But — March 9 will be 14 years ago that he was born. This was one of the best days of my life. My labor was actually a good part. Ned and I stayed up all night together, while the early labor pains began, and he held a tennis ball at the base of my spine every time I had a bad contraction. My sister and her fiance (now husband) John came over and took care of little Nat while we went into the hospital. <\/p>\n

At the hospital, I requested an epidural, but the entire time, I could feel the pain. I kept saying to the doctor, “Hey, I can feel that!” Finally, they rolled me over to check: the needle had fallen out of my spine!<\/p>\n

“It’s too late,” my doctor said. “You’re at 8 centimeters. You’ll have to just blow through the rest of it.”<\/p>\n

Oooh, I wanted to kill her! But I persevered. Ned kept me conscious, saying, “Look at me, Sue,” every time the pain ripped through. Max was born pretty fast, needless to say. A big baby, 8 lbs 9 ounces — it’s funny how you never forget stuff like that. I looked at him and was confused — who was this? He didn’t look like the baby I was used to (Nat!). I could not stop looking at him. I still can’t, but I do it covertly.<\/p>\n

Max came into this world with a burst of joy — and relief. He continues to give both to all those around him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my middle boy, now 6’2″ and quite the young man. Tonight Ned and I will be attending our first high school presentation for incoming — ulp — 9th graders! Is this the little boy I carried? I don’t remember getting older! But — March 9 will be 14 years ago that he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-mY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}