Maigan your story made me giggle... we are so alike. I get so grouchy when folks refuse to be thinking, reasonable people. grr. I am sure Lizzy will make the worlds most beautiful snow white, for many days after halloween as well.
Do we have to dress up? yeesh.
Ava is going to be a woodland fairy. At first she said a monkey. Then she said a bird. Finally she said a fairy and I said woohoo because that is a far easier costume to come up with. She has these awesome fairy wings i got her at the high sierra music festival this summer, they are all green and sparkly with cool leaves and branches on them. And i asked my friend who is a budding fashion designer to make her a fairy skirt. She make awesome clothes out of things she buys at thrift stores, cuts up and reassembles in funky ways... like skirts out of sweatpants and jeans, and dresses out of tshirts and long underwear. She is selling her stuff on etsy.com, and the photo here is of me modeling for her promotional stuff. Hopefully this means ava will have an awesome costume and i will not have to do any sewing at all!
I am now ten weeks pregnant, and I decided that doing concurrent care at Kaiser permanente was redundant and annoying so I will only be seeing my homebirth midwife now and i am so happy. This means I have to pay for my own glucose monitor test strips, which are expensive, but it also means that i will not be subjected to any more tests, vaginal exams, peeing in cups, being weighed, waiting in waiting rooms or counseling about genetic testing that i do not wish to have. woohoo!
See, i was thinking that i would do concurrent prenatal care at Kaiser along with my prenatal care with my midwives so that I could have all the testing that was necessary covered and so that in the event of a transfer from home during delivery they would not automatically label me high risk because they would have their own records. But then after being informed that they wanted to re-do my 3 hour glucose test every four weeks to "monitor me" and being given a "standard procedure" 8 week vaginal sonogram with no discussion of whether i wanted one or not I realized that I was denying myself the real homebirth experience. DUH. I am so unbelievably relieved and happy now. Talk about a weight being lifted.
sorry to be so lame about posting lately. am committing to being better about it. the world is better when we are chatty in here!
xoxo
MaryStarr
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