{"id":157,"date":"2010-01-05T07:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T12:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2010-01-05T07:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T12:16:34","slug":"disembarkation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Disembarkation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m officially a Dad!<\/p>\n<p>It has been said that I&#8217;ve technically been a Dad since the girls were first conceived, the rationale being that their care and welbeing has been a priority for me since then.<br \/>\nI agree, but it&#8217;s tough to feel like a Dad until you&#8217;ve got a (or two) little bundle(s) in your arms turning you into a smiling, blubbering, happy, girly mess.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons for my being a mess are the two little bundles that I referred to above.<br \/>\nLayla Kate and Elsa Jean Imms were born on the 24th of December at 7:22pm and 7:23pm respectively.<\/p>\n<p>They were born 5 weeks early, meaning that they are currently spending their time feeding and sleeping in the Special Care Nursery at Calvary Health Care Tasmania. They&#8217;ve been there since they were born, and as you may have guessed this means that we are home without them. It&#8217;s really hard to come home each night without our new little additions. It&#8217;s odd &#8211; it&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re used to there being two kids around the place, but they&#8217;re born now. We&#8217;ve been bonding. Leaving them behind at the end of the day is one of the hardest things I&#8217;ve ever had to do, and I have to do it every single day.<\/p>\n<p>On the upside, Layla and Elsa are awesome. They&#8217;re cute, floppy, noisy, smelly and beautiful. We&#8217;re not sure whether or not they&#8217;re identical as the test results haven&#8217;t come back yet. All I know is that they&#8217;re my daughters and now I&#8217;m soppy.<\/p>\n<p>I should also note that the staff at the Calvary have been incredible. I can&#8217;t recommend them highly enough, if you&#8217;ve got or are thinking about getting health insurance, it&#8217;s worth it. There is one particular midwife that has been absolutely awesome. If you come across Gina in your travels, tell her that the Imms&#8217; say hello.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/LaylaandElsa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/LaylaandElsa-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LaylaandElsa\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m officially a Dad! It has been said that I&#8217;ve technically been a Dad since the girls were first conceived, the rationale being that their care and welbeing has been a priority for me since then. I agree, but it&#8217;s tough to feel like a Dad until you&#8217;ve got a (or two) little bundle(s) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disembarkation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}