So we are only one week away from Micah's due date! He's definitely dropped, although I'm not sure when that happened exactly. lol. I just noticed yesterday that his bum is most certainly below my belly button now, when it used to be above. He's been carrying a little higher than Rosie did throughout, but I kinda figured that meant he's gonna be bigger. We'll see, I suppose. I'm so excited to hold him!
One week and counting.... it's a countdown to the due date, then we begin counting back up days overdue... lol, seems backwards... maybe I should do the countdown to the two-week mark when they'll wanna induce me. That way he'll hopefully show up before the countdown is over, and there'll be no need to count back up! :)
Tomorrow I'm meeting with a lady who'd in training to be a doula. She posted on one of my FB groups that she wanted to be involved with a birth, and I figured what they hey.
As I typed that I realized I'm not really sure what a doula does, so I googled it. I suppose she'd be there to talk to me/help me through labour and delivery, and support me with visits etc.. post birth.... it's interesting, we'll have to chat tomorrow, because I'd kinda been thinking of being alone through most of the labour this time. I'm more comfortable with the idea of being in pain alone, especially pain coupled with anticipation. One thing I distinctly remember from last time is wishing all the nurses would just go away. That, combined with the fact that I don't really remember who was with me other than Aunty Joan getting me ice-cubes so I'd have something to throw up...
with all that, I was thinking it might be better for me to just hang out in the bathtub upstairs, or pace the hallway etc... while I'm doing the whole early stages of labour thing, maybe go for a walk or something. I'd have Phil nearby, but I was thinking it would be pretty chill and peaceful for me to just have some Micah and me time....
of course, I don't know how realistic any of that is, since I don't know what labour's gonna be like this time without the oxytocin (please GOD!)
anyway, so my thought process is, would I be setting her up to hang around and feel unnecessary? Do I want someone walking through this with me? Do I want her walking through this with me? I suppose those questions can't really be answered until we meet tomorrow.... and I suppose some of them could be conditional. IE: if I call as I go into the hospital cuz I'm far enough along, and she's free, then it'll be green light... if she's busy no worries, or if things go too fast then whatever... I dunno.
I should talk to Phil, having her there might at least take some stress off of him, and I can tell them both how I want things to go, so they'll have some backup communicating with doctors and nurses and everything, since there will be two of them. Maybe she'll at least make his life easier.
Oh well, I'll chat with her tomorrow, and we'll see
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