Okay so at the 24 hour point after my water broke I have to admit I was worried. I wasn't in pain. I had had just a few contractions but nothing that would make me think I was about to have a baby. I had a doctor's appointment in the morning and I knew if I went in I would end up on pitocen.
24 hours seems to be the thresh hold for broken bag of waters. At least that is what I thought. Debbie our midwife said that as long as no infection set in then I could just wait for Bud to come on out on Bud's schedule. So I called the doctor, cancelled the appointment and waited. Oh yea and she confinded me to my house, to lessen the chance of infection. Nothing left to do but rest and wait and listen everyone try to talk me into going to the hospital.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
how it all started/ended
So today at 6 pm EST one year ago my water broke. Did I panic? Did I head to the hospital? Nope I headed to Target! God what was I thinking?
So I was all of 37 weeks and a days and I was headed to Target to finish getting ready for the baby. I figured I still had a good two weeks and I had just been on the monitors at the hospital that morning and outside of a sleeping baby that won't move for the monitors everything was good. DH got home and we were headed to Target to finish getting things for the birth, waterhose and the such. I got up and headed to the bathroom and as soon as I stepped on the bathroom floor, I felt gush of water!
I didn't panic. I called DH and told him that my water broke call the midwife! Little did I know it would 60 hours before Bud showed her face to world and became Audrey,
So I was all of 37 weeks and a days and I was headed to Target to finish getting ready for the baby. I figured I still had a good two weeks and I had just been on the monitors at the hospital that morning and outside of a sleeping baby that won't move for the monitors everything was good. DH got home and we were headed to Target to finish getting things for the birth, waterhose and the such. I got up and headed to the bathroom and as soon as I stepped on the bathroom floor, I felt gush of water!
I didn't panic. I called DH and told him that my water broke call the midwife! Little did I know it would 60 hours before Bud showed her face to world and became Audrey,
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sons
Okay so I have a daughter but I still want a son. I was so convinced that I was going to have a boy! I love my Audrey and God knew what he was doing since DH and I are currently at battle over circumcision. Before joining the world of parents, I never thought too much about to cut or not to cut. As far as I knew circumcision was what you did. But now that I'm a mom and member of the crunchy community, I've started to change my mind on the whole circumcision debate.
I've talked to DH about it. Why do we need to cut? Research shows you don't need to do it. We are born perfect so why chop off something immediately? He comes down the the side of cut. He has known many men that have had issues later in life and had to be circumcised in their teen years. He argues that we should do it while our son is a baby and won't remember anything. It is better to get it done now or our son will pay for it later.
I understand that argument. I should spare my child the pain of a adult circumcision and just do it while he is small but does every man have a problem with their uncircumcised penis? I would think as a man of science that DH would do more research and come back to the question of circumcision but he has his mind set. If we have a son then we will cut. I want a son but I know the birth of a son would about world war three in my marriage.
I can't image allowing someone to come in and cut on my son for no reason other than in the future he might could have an issue. It feels like we should just got ahead and chop Audrey's breast buds off cause in the future she might develop breast cancer. Or better yet lets not have anymore children since in the future they might be serial killers or work for the government. A lot can happen in the future. Why cause my child pain now? Why allow for my son to be scarred for the rest of his life for something that might or might not happen? Why not let nature takes it's course and if in the future my son needs a circumcision then we'll deal with it then? Not sure what to do on this one.
I've talked to DH about it. Why do we need to cut? Research shows you don't need to do it. We are born perfect so why chop off something immediately? He comes down the the side of cut. He has known many men that have had issues later in life and had to be circumcised in their teen years. He argues that we should do it while our son is a baby and won't remember anything. It is better to get it done now or our son will pay for it later.
I understand that argument. I should spare my child the pain of a adult circumcision and just do it while he is small but does every man have a problem with their uncircumcised penis? I would think as a man of science that DH would do more research and come back to the question of circumcision but he has his mind set. If we have a son then we will cut. I want a son but I know the birth of a son would about world war three in my marriage.
I can't image allowing someone to come in and cut on my son for no reason other than in the future he might could have an issue. It feels like we should just got ahead and chop Audrey's breast buds off cause in the future she might develop breast cancer. Or better yet lets not have anymore children since in the future they might be serial killers or work for the government. A lot can happen in the future. Why cause my child pain now? Why allow for my son to be scarred for the rest of his life for something that might or might not happen? Why not let nature takes it's course and if in the future my son needs a circumcision then we'll deal with it then? Not sure what to do on this one.
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