2011 - Talk Birth

I am having some strange ”death” fears about this birth, I went ahead and carried the visualization through
to my being 89 and then to the baby being 89 ;-D Maybe this was excessive, but I felt good about it—ending
the visualization with just the initial ”hi, baby!” moment didn’t feel like enough to me! So, then I felt really
positive and complete about that :) I also finished my birth altar that morning—I put a glaze over the
images, took pictures, etc. I also listened to the pregnancy and birth affirmations from Hypnobabies while
I did some of my other work. Later, we went on a nature exploration walk in the woods to enjoy the nice
weather and when we came back, I read some of my kids’ homebirth books to them—Welcome with Love,
Runa’s Birth, and We’re Having a Homebirth. They are excited and want to be there when the baby is born,
but I’m strongly leaning toward only having them present if they happen to wake up. I don’t know that I
want them woken up if they’re not ready (I realized this for sure after Z mentioned how he is going to be
”screaming” when the baby is born. Um. No, thanks on that).
Then, on Tuesday, I had some more belly pictures taken. It is fun to be ”special” and get my pictures
taken :) I love all of the ones I’ve seen so far from this shoot, but these two are really good!
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Today, I had my first prenatal appointment with my midwife at our own house. I’ve spent the entire
pregnancy not being able to picture her in our home and so, now, I can—because she’s actually been here. I
hadn’t really realized before that she hasn’t really ever met Mark or my mom, other than very short intro-
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