let me say a few wordws to reassure you abuot being a smaller woman seeking a natural childbirth. I;m not huge myself but you sound smaller than I am. my fairy godmother, Roslyn, is tiy. a pino teacher for most of ehr life, she had fur girls in the 15 years between when she was 26 and when she was 41. Roas stands abuot 5 feet eight if that now, and probably never weighed nnety pounds. each of her babies was born after an easy TWO HOUR LABOR, weighing betweeen 6 and 7 pounds. all were healthy from the get-go. Ros is still with us at age 91.

most small women had small thers, and upuntil fairly recently “natural childborth” was the only kind of childbirth there was. evolution would have ruled out smaller women brthing successfully back before medical intervention.

you’ll do great, I’m sure. there is a prejudice against small peopole in ur society. don’t listen to it.

I guess for us it all started way before we were even pregnant. We’ve always been the type to take minor illness and health issues and go to the source of the problem as opposed to seeking out a cure for the symptoms. I feel like that is really all doctors know how to do at this point is to medicate you and offer solutions that only mask the real underlying issue that causes the symptoms.

Remember back in the day when my brothers and I were all medicated due to depression or ADD or whatever? I was on antidepressants until about the sophomore year of high school because the psychiatrist my mom had us seeing decided that was what I needed. The real issue was that I was working through tons of stuff like dieing friends and divorce and abuse… That is hard for anyone to deal with and I got the idea early on that the drugs were just masking the underlying stuff so that things weren’t messy and hard to deal with. Once I got off the pills and proved to the docs that I wasn’t going to kill myself I got to start working though stuff as best as I could.

Anyway, that is where my distaste for “medicating the symptoms” came from I think. I just don’t trust that the doctors are really going to do what is best for me, I feel like they are all so worried about complications and the unknowns about birth that they tend to rush in to interventions, thinking they are helping when in many cases they are only making things harder. Isn’t it crazy how situations in life shape our perspective so much?

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We have our appointment on Wednesday with Pamela. 36 weeks and getting ever so close.

Did you get my message about my in-laws being in town? I wish I could have met up. Next time, though.

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I’ll be showing up during my “delivery month”, meaning I’ll arrive about the 37th or 38th week of pregnancy so I am there and ready to go when the baby decides to come and I anticipate staying no later than 42 weeks. I can leave earlier if the baby comes sooner rather than later.

We think the baby will come between the 40th and the 42nd week of pregnancy which is the June 25th (my due date) through the second week of July. The plan is to be there and to be settled in before delivery is imminent so I can go by the regional hospital and have an appointment with my back up doctor and also have time to relax and get ready for the baby. The baby will come when it is ready so the month long delivery window is just us playing it safe. I do not want to be driving 4 hours to The Farm while in labor, that is just a bit to risky for my taste!

N will drop me off there and then head back home for work and to care for our pets. I’ll call him up when early labor starts. Or, if labor ends up coming sometime on or after the due date like we expect he’ll already be there. It all depends on when the baby decides to come and how much time he gets off. We know I’ll be there for some portion of the time without him. That is why I asked my girlfriend to come hang out with me.

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