{"id":45791,"date":"2013-11-23T00:09:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=45791"},"modified":"2013-11-23T00:09:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:09:20","slug":"surprise-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/45791","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWeren&#8217;t we surprised. On September 1, I brought home Sweetheart, a gorgeous Jersey queen from Kansas. She traveled here with her fellow, a bull named Samson, that I had also purchased.\u00a0Their previous owner\u00a0had only\u00a0recently allowed them\u00a0to be together. Fine with me.<\/p>\n<p>During the month of October, I left them together, hoping for a pregnancy. After 30 days, on Oct. 1, I did a blood draw. Yup, she&#8217;d gotten pregnant, with Samson &#8230; or so I thought. Turns out, she was already pregnant when she arrived. Very pregnant. According to my calculations, she&#8217;d be having her first baby the end of May. However, on Tuesday, Charlie, pictured here, was born. Who was the lucky guy that beat Samson to the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sully. A guy named Sully. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome Charlie!!!! (Properly Charles.) Just poor timing, with winter already here and temperatures hovering around\u00a015 F the first night you were born. Just glad we found you in time to get you inside.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-45796\" alt=\"charely&amp;Sweet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/charelySweet2.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mother and son doing well. Just unexpected.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weren&#8217;t we surprised. On September 1, I brought home Sweetheart, a gorgeous Jersey queen from Kansas. She traveled here with her fellow, a bull named Samson, that I had also purchased.\u00a0Their previous owner\u00a0had only\u00a0recently allowed them\u00a0to be together. Fine with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/45791\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/45791\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}