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It is six years ago and I have the onesie with the elephant on it in my purse with \u201cMommy and Me\u201d stitched on it. I have cut holes in the feet so the\u00a0little probe that measures my son\u2019s heart rate and oxygen levels stays visible and secure at all times. So, no footie pajamas.<\/em><\/h2>\n

I thought he\u2019d be home by Mother\u2019s Day. It has been eight weeks since he was born and entered the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. But even now we are still two weeks away from his actual due date. This is the kind of math I do now\u2014backwards and forwards…<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Welcome to the “Flashback Edition” of Mother’s Day. This is what I think back to each and every year and I finally shared it with Scary Mommy<\/a><\/em>.<\/a> Click the picture below to read…<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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It is six years ago and I have the onesie with the elephant on it in my purse with \u201cMommy and Me\u201d stitched on it. I have cut holes in the feet so the\u00a0little probe that measures my son\u2019s heart rate and oxygen levels stays visible and secure at all times. So, no footie pajamas. I thought he\u2019d be home by Mother\u2019s Day. It has been eight weeks since he was born and entered the …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5233,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21,86,23,11],"tags":[28,97,46,176,209,218,55,136,119,54,17,100,261],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mom-gene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-11-at-9.44.54-PM.png?fit=625%2C201&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ca5p-1m9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}