| july
23, 2007 |
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the letter to our neighbours:
my fiance and i are planning a homebirth and i am due to go into labour any
day now. we wanted to let you know because we do not wish you to be alarmed
if you hear any loud noises at some point in the near future.
rest assured we are ok and we have with us our certified nurse midwife, her
assistant, my mom (who is also a nurse), plus others helping out, so we have
everything covered and are in excellent care! please do not call the cops!
ha :)
we are fine!
we really hope that things will go as noiselessly and quickly as possible,
but one just never knows, so we wanted to give you the "heads up".
you will probably not even notice that anything is happening, but if you do,
the part that might be noisest (when i have to do the pushing) is the shortest
part of labour and will most likely not last more than 1/2 an hour.
giving birth is not like in the movies :)
anyway, i hope that your day will not be disturbed by our activities, and
if it is, we apologize!
we aren't going to be having any more children so this will only happen once!
thank you for your understanding and patience.
we'll try to get you a pink cigar in the end
(its a girl and her name is lili)
ana and matthew
11:59pm
M is nesting like a maniac :)
today, 1:30pm
progress?
i think i am losing my mucous plug and having a bit of "bloody show"?
doesn't that just sound fabulous? ewww...it's really not as dramatic as that
sounds. which is why i question it...but i think i'm pretty sure because it's
been happening for over 24 hours now. but i do know that sex brought it on
*bang a gong* and it's not uncommon for this to happen after lovemaking. still...i
haven't seen it before during my pregnancy and it's pretty late in the game
now *39 weeks today!* and so i think it means that labour is soon on it's
way! *crosses fingers but not holding my breath*
when i think of bloody show i thought it was suppopsed to be at least the
same amount of blood as a period, but when i looked it up last night, it seems
it can just be a bit of pink stained mucous. which is what i have.
the sun is in leo now and our birth
tub was delivered yesterday (that thing is deep! nice!) and so we told lili
that she can come any time now :)
i'm totally anxious, freaked, nervous and excited.
i feel like i need to "let go" a bit more in order for her to come,
but maybe i don't...maybe i have absolutely no control over it at all.
i really actually hope i don't because if she has to wait for me to be mentally
prepared for labour, i don't know when i ever will be truly mentally prepared.
i just have to go for it and trust...surrender to the process and have faith
that my body knows what to do.
nice thoughts but can i do it?
i feel all contractiony (as i have been for months now) and my pelvic bones have sharp pains that jab me every now and then so bad i have to get off my feet ASAP when they happen. lili is moving around in me like crazy. sometimes it feels like she is trying to stretch out and this is quite painful. bones in my belly! big strong bones. and i am having more low aches and menstrual like aches here and there (been having those for weeks). owie.
my midwife will be over to check me in an hour and i can't wait to hear her opinion on it all.
on our zen calendar today, the saying
is:
"the fruit drops when the tree is ripe"
what i wrote yesterday:
Sun, Jul. 22nd, 2007 01:11 pm
team leo!
11 hours til LEO!
oh ya oh ya! :)
i'm gonna give birth to a lioness
and not a crab!
(unless all of a sudden i go into active labour today and it goes fast, but
i don't think that is going to happen *crosses fingers*)
39 weeks tomorrow!
*kitty dance*
enjoy some vegan placenta recipes:
http://havingapoo.blogspot.com/2007/07/placenta-party.html
did i tell you that a local french
restauraunt is going to cook my placenta?
oh yes!
for my alice in wonderland themed "eat me" party :)
who wants to try my placenta?
all my friends are wimping out on me! shame on them!
also, why are people so eeked out
over eating placenta?
i mean, jeez, how many millions of people eat the body of christ and drink
the blood of christ every single day?
and eating a placenta is considered weird, even tho all of the animal kingdom
does it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placentophagy
now THAT is strange to me.
placenta has to be the only completely
100% politically correct meat on the planet, no?
i made it myself! :) i'm sure i taste great!
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baby registry!
I thought you might like to know that I have created a Baby Registry at Amazon.com. You can find it anytime by searching for my name at http://www.amazon.com/babyregistry.
Best Wishes,
ana voog and matthew bruce
You can see ana voog and matthew bruce's entire Baby Registry at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/baby/3BKBUJCBUDKXC
ok, here it is!
if you can think of anything else that would be good for me to add, let me
know :)
if you find a better price for things or want to buy it somewhere else or simply send something else or give us a gift of money (yes!!! $ will go to buy fuzzi bunz cloth diapers and medical costs)
please send to:
ana voog
p.o. box 76152
saint paul, MN
55175
make cheques and money orders
out to:
rachael olson (my legal name) or matthew bruce
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