AHH! It’s me!!! I’m SO sorry. I’ve been feeling really crummy lately and totally forgot about this. (I passed out twice at work this week; it turns out I have incredibly low blood pressure. So now I’m eating a lot more salt and drinking more, but I still feel AWFUL. Grr. Any tips, anyone?)
Molive—What actually brought me to MDC was PETA. It’s kind of a weird story. I used to be incredibly, incredibly mainstream. I don’t even think I realized there was such a thing as “non-mainstream.” But one day, I rescued an abused guinea pig (long story) and PETA helped me with some legal issues. I started reading PETA material and realized that there was so much that nobody was telling me. Like, about where our food really comes from, where pets in the pet store really come from, etc. And then I started wondering…what else is nobody telling me? It was so eye-opening to find out that there was so much more information out there than what I had been raised with. I started to do more research about all sorts of things. And when we started to plan for a baby, I started doing research to find out the whole picture about family-related stuff. Which is how I found MDC.
For this birth, I’m planning a CNM-attended hospital birth with a doula. I really wanted a home birth, but we’re not really living somewhere where I’d be comfortable having a baby, and we don’t have a birth center here.
Favorite food: probably home-made pizza on whole wheat crust from trader joe’s
Favorite pastimes: spending time with my DH, meditating, working out….I wish I had time to have more..
I still don’t know how many kids I want.
Favorite color: blue
I have a million names I love. My DH has a whole bunch he loves. But we only agree on ONE name, and it’s for a girl: Naomi. So if this baby is a boy, we’re stuck.
I’m closest to my sister, who’s 4 years younger than I am. I definitely consider her my best friend.
I actually haven’t bought anything for the baby yet. I’m from the Middle East (Jerusalem) and it’s considered really bad luck to buy anything for the baby until the third trimester.
Zjande—I met my DH in Jerusalem. I was doing research on congenital ambiguous genitalia (fascinating, and also a great conversation topic at cocktail parties). He was traveling around trying to find himself. Instead he got into a conversation with me at a cocktail party.
I don’t garden, but we belong to an organic CSA and I sometimes help out on the farm. I love it.
I have one pet, the guinea pig I mentioned before. I had to hand-feed him for months while he was recovering, and we really bonded. Now he runs after me all the time like a little puppy (he’s free range) and he gives me little kisses all the time. His name is Brownster.
F & P--I would probably most likely want to visit Costa Rica. I would LOVE to see the rainforest.
I’ve been craving a whole lot of fruit. Mostly watermelon.
KH—I work full-time now, which is exhausting. I’m doing research and some administrative stuff at a pediatrics office.
I think I’m moderately crunchy.
Starry—I wish I could say I had time to read something earthshatteringly fascinating. Nope. The most interesting thing I’ve read lately is probably Marie Mongan’s Hypnobirthing book (which I did not like—that’s why I ordered Hypnobabies instead).
My favorite fruit is watermelon.
If I had $100, I’d probably buy…that’s a hard one. Hmm. I have to think about it.
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