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Dec 28, 2014 16:55

I was blown away in the advancement of more "open minded" procedure between Dmitri's hospital birth nearly 10 years ago and Astraea's hospital birth this past summer. They had the spa tubs and the birth balls and lots of lovely "crunchy" birth extras, and they never pushed me to do anything (amazing considering our critical condition while I ( Read more... )

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tellinellen January 4 2015, 04:38:49 UTC

I just decided to experiment with trying the LJ app (my recent LJ forays were via laptop) and found this. But it looks like you wrote it as its own post. But it seems like it's (obviously) written to me. Am I unable to understand the new LJ or did u accidentally make this a post?

Anyway. Unfortunately the hospital here is not as awesome as that. I mean - it has improved a lot from where it used to be, and they respect midwifery, and I'll have a midwife so within certain boundaries we'll be okay. But THEY HAVE NO TUBS. I wrote to her to ask if they have big tubs and if u can stay in them to push and she told me they have NO tubs, just showers, and I was stunned. Because I know they remodeled so why the hell not put in tubs? The tub issue alone is big for me. I'm still not 100% sure what I'll do.

serenityone January 6 2015, 04:12:10 UTC

Oh Jeez, yes it was. That app man, it gets me every time. Somehow I'm constantly posting comment replies as posts. I should just go back to using the mobile site instead. Drat.

Anyway, I'm glad you saw it.

That they would do a remodel and NOT put in tubs is indeed mind boggling... I was really excited for the tubs at my hospital, but then the birth ended up being a disaster anyway and I wasn't allowed to... still, there was something about knowing that they were there and that I WOULD have had that option if things had gone differently that made me really content about being in the hospital... or something.

You did so fantastically with your water birth before, I almost can't picture you not going that route again.

Also, super glad you have multiple doula options... some women don't want it I guess, but I'm very emotionally needy in labor, having support available even if I'm not using it is very soothing. Also, having a Caleb birthday Doula is a very good omen, I think :)

tellinellen January 6 2015, 04:17:50 UTC

I'm so glad I saw it ( ... )

serenityone January 6 2015, 04:50:03 UTC

Of course! That's kind of amazing, given how significant foxes have become for his life... wonderful to think that theme was there from the beginning - and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they chatted about it, at least in this area Doulas do that quite a bit (we've got a couple of "collectives" that work as teams that can cover for one another, so it makes sense that they share some back and forth about clients, but even without that the natural birth community is much more "casual" about that stuff I feel), plus with how open you've been about Caleb's story ( ... )

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tellinellen January 4 2015, 04:42:47 UTC

Oh and ps - I am going to have a doula or possibly more than one. My friend Takiema just became a doula. She came over with her friend and her mom, both of whom also did the training. Takiema's first son was stillborn. Oh and her birthday is Caleb's birthday! So the plan is now that she will be our doula and/or her friend and/or mom will step in if necessary. (She wanted to make sure that I was comfortable with backup contingencies - she works full time and is in school part time and has a kid, she's only done one birth and knowing that her client ONLY wanted her was stressful).