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Originally Posted by dara00  What's it like living in Argentina?
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Answering this really depends on what part of this huge country you live. Life is
very polarized and different in different provinces (states). I live in Buenos Aires, the capital city, which is a very western kind of city...it has more to do with european and US ways in many things that in other argentinian provinces ways.
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Originally Posted by dara00 What is birth like there?
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4 years ago when I was preg with ds1 the whole natural childbirth movement was little. I found an awesome place founded by some holistic guys and a woman who lived in The Farm in the 70's, so there was something. Now, 4 years later, the natural cb movement, even the homebirth movement has increased monumentally. It's awesome, there are groups and conferences and doulas and midwife's and debates in hospitals all over the place. Of course, it's like in the US, you can hang out with groups of people where all babies are born naturally, and then you go to the market and you tell someone and they look like you have 7 heads, the you're crazy and neglectful line, etc. It's a hard work of years changing the mainstream ways, like everywhere.
OTOH in other provinces where the latin american roots aren't too lost like in big cities like Buenos Aires, it's most common, but like I said, it really depends on the place.
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Originally Posted by dara00 I saw you had a previous home birth, can you tell us about it?
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At the time I was pregnant with Manuel, there was very little info available in spanish on homebirth. I found a few books that lead me to that homebirth/AP place I told above when I was 7 months along. There I met a mimdwife but wasn't sure if I wanted one at all. I reached 42.6 weeks and agreed for her to come and check me, and she finished being in the birth because I birthed that very same day. I woke up at 10 am and said to my then partner (exdp, I have another dh now), "hey I dreamt of the mucus plug coming out, so cool". I finished that sentence to the feeling of the mucus plug actually coming out. It was cool indeed.
We called my sister and hanged out, had lunch and a great time with contractions but me talking through them still. I don't remember the time, but around 3/4 pm things got intense and Manu was born at 21.27 pm, surrounded by candles and soft music, totally uneventfully. It was beautiful and calm and intense at the same time.
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Originally Posted by dara00 How are you feeling these days with your new one due?
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absolutely not ready yet, at least in my mind...My body is beginning to feel kind of ready. I'm a planner and make lists all the time, and my lists are huge. I have all these diapers to sew by myself, because not many are sold around here and I'm determined to CD. I really hope to get things done before little being arrives.
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Originally Posted by dara00 What does your son think about a new baby coming?
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He's very excited. Maybe it has something to do with him being 4, he gets the whole thing very well. His only disappointment was that he wanted a baby sister
. I think he's over that now and is planning all sort of things to do for and teach his little brother
not at all! I've never heard or met a single person with plastic surgery. Plus it's such an expensive thing! No way argentinians are into it. There are very well-off people that live in their own bubble that may do that, but i'm sure they are a very little percentage of people.
I'm a vegan, so. I eat salads for lunch, so there I have tomato, arugula, carrot, parsley, peppers...I also love to cook eggplant, zucchini, broccoli, cawliflower...everything every day. I'm a big veggie girl
