Au Natural

After getting a lot of information about different drugs and interventions given during labor, delivery, and postpartum, I've decided to go natural. I'm a little bit scared, okay maybe a lot scared, since I'm jumping on the med-free ban wagon a bit late in the game. We didn't hire a doula or midwife and I feel like we are completely unprepared for a natural birth with the information we have from our birthing classes, but I figure women gave birth for thousands of years without preparation or meds so I should be able to do it, right? None-the-less, I'm searching Google, Youtube, and books for any information I can get my hands on. I guess I'm hoping that some knowledge is power and will translate into a more confident Me when labor begins. More confidence=better success at going natural in a world where medicating seems to be first option recommended by so many doctors.

Brian has offered me extra incentive for going natural that will hopefully motivate me. Yes, I'm lame for actually seeing it as an incentive, but here it is anyways: Brian says that if I am able to go completely natural I will be allowed to groom his crazy eyebrow hairs whenever I want to for the rest of our lives. He's got a few hairs that are completely out of control and I've only managed to get him to agree to having me trim them a few times. Those few instances were after months of pleading. Sometimes I can't help but stare at them. It reminds me of the Austin Powers mole clip.



So, as I said the extra incentive is really ridiculous but completely motivating. Those hairs will be mine!!!!

Another note worthy happening...today is Mother's Day. While I don't consider myself an official mom yet, I did get some mother-to-be cards to celebrate the day. My father-in-law surprised me with flowers yesterday and Brian had flowers, a balloon, a couple of cards, and some muffins for breakfast set up for me this morning. I went to have lunch with my mom and grandmother and my step-dad bought us each a corsage to wear during lunch. It was nice to be recognized, but I don't for a second think that I deserve to be celebrated yet. Sure I'm about ready to have a baby any day now, but I haven't experienced any of the real sacrifices of motherhood yet. The sleepless nights, barf shirts, trips to the doctor, constant concern, etc. etc. have yet to be part of my every day life. Next year I will be a real mom. Today I'm just a mom-in-training.