{"id":12653,"date":"2014-08-21T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=12653"},"modified":"2014-08-21T09:29:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:29:02","slug":"am-i-becoming-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2014\/20140821-12653.htm","title":{"rendered":"Am I becoming boring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging becomes increasingly hard &#8211; not because I don&#8217;t have anything to say, but because I fear I don&#8217;t have anything to say that anyone wants to read.<\/p>\n<p>My days feel one dimensional &#8211; all caught up in pregnancy and work, work and pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>I go to work &#8211; where I talk to pregnant women, breastfeeding women, mothers of young children. I teach them how to be healthy during pregnancy, breastfeeding, feeding a family. I come home from work &#8211; where I try to be healthy during my own pregnancy. I retreat to the basement where it&#8217;s cooler for my evening workout. I grab a book and read more about healthy pregnancy, healthy delivery. I talk to my husband and fear I&#8217;m becoming a broken record, telling yet another story about how the book I&#8217;m reading is wrong about pregnancy nutrition or about how the clients I see don&#8217;t get it until I explain it to them a different way or how frustrated I am that I&#8217;m not the superwoman I wish I was.<\/p>\n<p>Even the non-pregnancy related stuff finds a way to revolve around pregnancy. <\/p>\n<p>Getting laundry done becomes all about making sure there are enough underwear that fit (I&#8217;ve graduated to men&#8217;s boxer briefs &#8211; which are much more comfortable than ladies underthings). It&#8217;s all about which dresses still fit my figure. <\/p>\n<p>Cooking revolves around pregnancy &#8211; both my energy levels related to pregnancy and alternately trying and not trying to fit my intake into the ridiculous &#8220;Brewer diet&#8221; encouraged by the Bradley method. I spend way too much of my days internally grumbling about the diet, about how I&#8217;m going to gain too much weight because of it, and how it&#8217;s so darn much work. And I grumble more because even though I&#8217;m not a preschooler, I still want stickers for a job well done &#8211; even when I know as a dietitian that the Bradley prescribed diet is far from healthy for pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Reading is all about pregnancy, childbirth, baby care. Crafting is preparing baby stuff. <\/p>\n<p>And I wonder &#8211; if I&#8217;m already becoming this boring *before* the baby comes and I&#8217;ve quit my job, what will I be like as a housewife? <\/p>\n<p>I fear more than just boring others. What if I become so myopic that I bore even myself?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s exciting and it&#8217;s scary, this new season we&#8217;re entering into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging becomes increasingly hard &#8211; not because I don&#8217;t have anything to say, but because I fear I don&#8217;t have anything to say that anyone wants to read. My days feel one dimensional &#8211; all caught up in pregnancy and work, work and pregnancy. I go to work &#8211; where I talk to pregnant women, &#8230; <a title=\"Am I becoming boring?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2014\/20140821-12653.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Am I becoming boring?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12660,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653\/revisions\/12660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}