Auntie Maryclaire came to visit us this weekend and we had a great time :) We took the opportunity to head into Tilton and do some outlet shopping. Once again Baby B was the main beneficiary.
My obsession with baby socks continues.... I can't possibly imagine that feet exist small enough to wear these!
We also got into some frog craziness. There is something really awesome about the fact that babies get to wear outfits with funny hoods that look like animals on a daily basis.
I also found an adorable little fleece bear outfit for Baby B to wear home from the hospital
Here's Joe modeling it for me. He wasn't thrilled.We've done most of what can be done at this time in Baby B's room. Now we just wait for Bub to come and fix the outside wall and put in a new window. After that we can finally put the crib up, yay!
It made me feel much better to get some things organized in the closet. We grabbed a kit from Home depot and put up some shelving.
On Friday night Joe, MC and I sat down and watched "The Business of Being Born" which is a documentary that Ricki Lake produced looking at the whole process of labor and delivery in hospitals today. I found it incredibly interesting and somewhat frightening thinking about what big business baby having has become.C-sections are on the rise (some hospitals have rates as high as 40%) and some hospitals even let women opt to have one. It seems that many people are forgetting what a natural and normal process giving birth actually is. Don't get me wrong, medical intervention and surgery has saved millions of babies lives but most part births go completely normally. The death rate of women giving birth in the US is worse than in 40 other countries, including nearly all the industrialized countries. The UK ranks 26th while we rank 41st. We have some of the best doctors in the world yet our mothers are dying in higher numbers than almost anywhere else.... I'm not sure what to think of this, except it further cements my goal and plan to have Baby B as naturally as possible.
Although I contemplated a home birth or even going to a birthing center I have ultimately decided to go to Concord Hospital. I feel like where I live if anything were to happen I'm just too far away from the hospital to get there fast enough. Plus, this being my first experience with baby having I just don't know what to expect. That being said I will insist on the least amount of medical intervention possible. I know this is what my body was made to do and I am going to trust it to do just that. I am confident that it will hurt like hell and that at many points I am going to be screaming for pain relief but I'm also confident that I am fully capable of doing it without help. It's so hard to know if you are making the right decision when you've never been in the position before, and you have no idea of what will happen. But it's easy to trust in yourself, trust in your partner and trust in a process that is as natural as breathing.
I'll let you guys know how this ends up working out for me ;)
