Midwife just been and gone. Had to have yet MORE blood taken as I was tested as anaemic (by two incy wincy points for crying out loud!) and they have to make sure I'm not below 10 if I want to homebirth. Went through everything that could go wrong and am a bit more reluctant :S
WENT SHOPPING albeit with a harsh one hour deadline cos he wanted to get things "done"... :\ Won't he be chuffed when I tell him I want dropping off at JL tomorrow then .. :P
posted by Unknown @ 2:03 pm
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Diary
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Well, it's not that she scared me - she's just covering her own back by filling in the paper work and as she isn't going to be the one on call I don't think she cares either way anyway. But if I'm anaemic then that's that, surely? I dunno... I also worry about making too much noise and scaring both my family and the neighbours - and insulting my mother if she happens to be around when I drop... I did make rather a lot of noise last time - like a mating hippo :S
The emergency scenario doesn't really bother me as I'm so close to the hospital that I can almost see it, and even if my husband took me, stopping along the way to show me points of interest (like he did LAST time) I think I'd get there in plenty of time...
And I dunno if I want a homebirth as some sort of fulfilling mothering experience or merely me burying my head in the sand and thinking it might just be easier ... plus the midwives frighten me :P
I did conider a homebirth this time around, my midwife is one of them on call and is very pro homebirth, plus I liked her and she knew me through my pregnancy with A too. But for me I think I *need* to be in the hospital for it to seem real if that makes sence. I really lost my focus at home. I didn't think I'd feel like that. You don't know where you're going to want to be until you're in labour so i think you're right to keep your options open.
On an entirely non bitter note I was home straight away and ended up getting up with the girls, washing and dressing them and making everyone breakfast. If i had birthed at home I would probably have been the one clearing up whilst everyone else rested. that's the only time in my life I have *wanted* to be in the hospital with cardboard toast that at least I didn't have to make myself.
It's all getting a bit sad when a hospital stay feels like pampering isn't it?!
It truly is, Hannah - kick him to the curb
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