We saw our midwife this week, and all is well. The baby is growing just fine, very active, and getting big. I only have 17 weeks left. Amazing how time flies, and I thought this second pregnancy was going to take forever, lol. SO I have pretty much come to the conclusion that we are having a girl. I don't know this for fact but, well it's just a hunch, I was right with Patrick.
So anyway, all I want to do now, now that I have finally convinced myself that she is a she, is go out and buy baby stuff. Sheesh, what does a girl do, the not knowing for sure has been so hard for me, of course Jerry is happy as can be, and I really suspect he loves seeing me squirm every so often in agony over the fact I don't know, lol. Conspiracy??? Lol, nope, just me being a freak.
Went to a breastfeeding seminar at the hospital, learned some really disturbing things, gosh, I so made the right choice not to see an OB here or birth here. The seminar was led by a woman who works for Presbyterian Health Care, blah, blah, blah. I had mixed feelings on the meeting, and was really disappointed in the hospital staff who works on the maternity care ward. Needles to say I was once accused of being unfit due to the fact that I want to have a home birth and I'm not seeing an OB. God forbid I actually take the authority over my own body and trust in its ability to make and deliver a baby. It's only happened for the last 2000+ years, who heck do I think I am to just assume that nature will take it's course? Lol! Really, because I don't have a man in my crotch every month, and I don't have blood drawn, and diabetic testing, and constant track of my weight, I'm looked at like a ani-doctor, hippy loving freak. You know what though, I am a hippy loving freak! A home birth is way more safe than a hospital birth for so many reasons, I can not believe how brain washed women in society are. They woman, Nurse, aka, "woman and baby hating Nazi", in response to me admitting freely that I was planning a home birth, gave me the third degree. What? Are you doing it at home? With who? Are you going to Texas? You might as well go to the birthing center in Roswell. I informed the "mother hating, baby hating Nazi", that I had done my research and I was confident in my choice for my child. He reply...lol, "Well I hope you know what you are doing because I have seen plenty of ruptured uterus's". I wish I would have had the urge to vomit at that moment, because I would have done so, on her, lol. Not really now. I have enough faith and confidence in my decision that her words did not make me "feel" and different.
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