Day 235

[daisan]

So if Figgy comes when Kaden did, she'll arrive on September 21st. That sounds fine to me. That gives me four days to recover before we go out to dinner for our anniversary and three whole weeks before we introduce her to everyone at my birthday party. And it's a nice birthday, isn't it? But I'm trying to be open to the fact that she could come

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[mahogany]

Your doctor attends homebirths? Wow, that's outstanding! I didn't realize that there were MDs that actually attended them (none of them do, up here....legal reasons, I think).

[daisan]

Very few here do, too. Also legal reasons. And because of the high price of malpractice insurance for MDs who attend home births, mine is no longer doing them after the end of this year. I feel very lucky to be having Figgy when I am, because he's the only doctor I know of anywhere near here that does homebirths. :(

It's quite a catch-22, too, because any certified midwife is constrained by the same sort of medical malpractice laws that a doctor is (ie once a woman begins pushing, she has to deliver within 3 hours or the attending is held responsible for anything that goes wrong) but doesn't have the additional medical training that doctors possess. Plus, no midwife has practicing rights at a hospital, whereas my doctor can come in and continue to attend me even if I do need to be transferred. So really, the laws (and the insurance industry) are stacked to discourage homebirth as much as possible.

[calienteyfria]

All babies are different. Alyssa was supposedly 2 weeks early, and Daschel was 10 days late. He decided he REALLY liked it in there and he was not intent on coming out. Otherwise, we may have had a repeat of the norwegian_wood baby who was born at home at week 45 and weighed over 10 lbs. Yipes.

You do know that babies laugh at plans, don't you? ;)

[daisan]

They do have a tendency to do that, don't they?

[calienteyfria]

Which day is your party again?

[daisan]

Sat Oct 14

[daisan]

Yeah, the hospital form I filled out (just in case) asks about religious preferences and offers to do things like inform your religious community of your hospitalization and provide you with visits from religious officials. I was like, cool.

[novemberhour]

I like Coldplay as musicians and individuals. I don't mind if people aren't interested in them musically, but I feel that overall, although they are of course human beings, they have an overwhelmingly positive output. Consequently, I don't think you can complain about them as people. Of course, I feel the same way about Bono, and people still make snarky comments about his being a do-gooder. What the heck is wrong with doing some good? Particularly when it's clearly not for ego-stroking, since you get no thanks from the general public.

My mom always said she loved having late summer/early fall babies because she could wrap us up in adorable little snuggly clothing. And if I ever have kids, I definitely would want to home birth if possible. And I've always been intrigued by water birth (I don't know how related that is to labor tubs, but it sounds interesting.)

[daisan]

Bono rocks so completely. He's a great musician who has ALWAYS stood for something and used his music as a platform for free speech and world improvement. People say bad things about him? They suck.

Water birth intrigues me, too. I think it would be just basically laboring in a tub and then not getting out to move to a table to give birth, which in the hospital they insist on. It makes sense to me for the baby to go from an aquatic environment to an aquatic environment, something that's going to be warm and not shocking to their tiny little body. They don't breathe immediately anyway.

At the baby shower I was at yesterday the bride (due in mid-October) got a super adorable one-piece teddybear outfit for a newborn, complete with hood and hands. I think it might be a Halloween costume, but it was DARN CUTE. I can see the appeal of dressing newborns in snuggly clothing, big time.