cold monday
I had a midwife appt today. Everything is fine. Dum-de-dum. Heard the heartbeat. Ellis said "beebee" about a million times. Makes me smile.
Next time I go, it's the glucose test. Then after that I start going every two weeks: the first glimmer of hope that maybe I won't be pregnant forever. Every two weeks, then every week, then waiting for labor...
I think we might take a Childbirth Refresher course they offer. I was kind of hemming and hawing over it. But it does go through protocol for the birth center, and that might be helpful. And as I was reading the course description, I thought maybe it might be helpful to have some refreshers on the signs of onsetting labor, so I don't try to talk myself out of it again. ha. Eventually I will realize. We actually never took any kind of childbirth course with E. Never got around to it with moving and all, and we thought we'd spend the last month reading. Ha! Think again. We spent that month with a new baby. But we did read a couple of helpful books the first time and that got us through.
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We loved our Bradley class. May even take a refresher this time (is that really necessary w/# 4 in 5 years?). I'd recommend it even for 2nd timers. It's a ten week course, though, so you'd have to get on that. . .
Posted by: lynnp | February 12, 2008 04:01 PM
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you know, we really looked into Bradley classes when I was preg with E. We got the books instead. I just don't think I could commit to the class time right. If we had that kind of class time, I'd rather take ASL, you know. I do like the Bradley books--they were really helpful. I might read a few others, like Birthing from within or something and take the refresher.
My prenatal yoga dvd is really great, too. Good practice at controlled breathing, and the dvd gives good pointers for labor, too. *shrug*
If anyone has suggestions for stuff to read/do, I'd be open to suggestions.
Posted by: Jeannette | February 12, 2008 05:28 PM
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Oh, wow! I just read E's birth story. *hug* So happy for you having another baby!
(And Birthing from Within is good, even if a bit weird at points. But considering your post about the art of parenting, I think you'd really like it right now.)
Posted by: TulipGirl | February 16, 2008 11:19 AM