I had my first appointment last night! It definitely made this real.
I was so happy to see my mw again. Of course, there wasn't much to do but take my history since the last birth and go over all the agreements again. I'm just hoping that insurance will cover her, but it looks like we'll have to pay her upfront and then just get reimbursed...yikes.
I know my next appointment is about 5 weeks away, but I can't wait, since we'll get to hear the heartbeat. I have to keep reminding myself to sloooooow down my excitement.
The good news is that she gave me the go-ahead to run the Hood To Coast Relay at the end of this month.
Anybody else having a hard time staying in the moment? When are you meeting your care provider?
I was so happy to see my mw again. Of course, there wasn't much to do but take my history since the last birth and go over all the agreements again. I'm just hoping that insurance will cover her, but it looks like we'll have to pay her upfront and then just get reimbursed...yikes.
I know my next appointment is about 5 weeks away, but I can't wait, since we'll get to hear the heartbeat. I have to keep reminding myself to sloooooow down my excitement.
The good news is that she gave me the go-ahead to run the Hood To Coast Relay at the end of this month.
Anybody else having a hard time staying in the moment? When are you meeting your care provider?
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: I really didn't click with the midwife, or anyone else in the office - it was very disappointing, and my mood swings must be kicking in because I cryed all the way home. 
The staff just didn't seem very friendly, and when the lady came in to take my blood pressure etc (not the midwife, the tech(?)), she started going for the wheel and I said, well, actually, I ovulate later than day 14, and she pretty much just ignored that. The midwife is just not my style, and maybe that's kind of frivilous, but this is someone I'm going to be seeing for the next nine months and need to be able to trust and be very comfortable with. And I'm just not. When I first met her, I already had been asked to put the little paper gown on (except they were out of the gowns, so I got a little vest and a drape 
: ), and she had a limp handshake and just started baraging me with random questions - no how are you, who are you.... When I mentioned again that I chart my cycles and know that I ovulated later, and that I had brought my chart with me if she wanted to see it, she didn't really seem that interested. And when she asked if I had any questions (mind you, I'm still sitting up on the table in this flimsy little paper thing - not exactly the most comfortable or equal kind of situation), I said I did, but could I ask them when I was dressed? She said fine, but the "office" that we went to after the exam was not a private office - there were constantly people in and out grabbing charts, etc. I just didn't feel comfortable asking all my questions - and she would say "ask me anything" "that's what I'm here for", but it was one of those things where you don't really feel like it's true.
I wish we were up for having a homebirth so that we didn't have to deal with the whole mess of who can deliver at what hospitals... I tried calling another practice, but the 3 midwives there only deliver at one hosp (far away) and they rotate, you don't get to just see one consistantly.
for all the pity parties we'll be happily throwing in here! 
