My heart is coming around to this pregnancy... Feeling the baby kick starting at 17 weeks was special and helped me connect a bit more. Also, the more I read pregnancy books or watch birth videos I am getting excited. I talked about childbirth for a while with my sister and a friend, during which I remembered certain exciting and wonderful parts of childbirth - I went home telling my husband I am ready to have this baby! I want to go through childbirth right now! ha, ha. I had such a great experience last time, I just want that magic again. But of course anything could happen and every childbirth is different.. so the feeling didn't last too long.
But then yesterday I watched a homebirth on Baby Story with my kids and answered all their questions (trying not to cry...I get so emotional sometimes I can't even talk). It was just the most amazing, beautiful thing to watch the show but also to share it with my children. My 6-year-old son is taking quite the interest in this stuff. I'm pretty sure I'd like him to be at the birth (but I am not sure about the 3-year-old, she will at least need supervision). So it's good to explain exactly what happens, show him how the mom may be acting, how the baby acts and looks when first born, etc.
We also watched a couple hospital episodes - a medicated vaginal birth and ceaserean delivery. We talked about the differences at the hospital and how they do a lot of unnecessary things that frequently end up problematic; and how they do other things simply for convenience or profit, at the baby's expense. I don't think 6 is too young of an age to discuss this; I am glad my son is asking and wants to understand. But after making hospitals out to be the bad guy, I also had to discuss with him how sometimes their help is necessary and if I need the baby cut out of me, Heavenly Father will be with us and we will pray to be safe and comforted. It's interesting to me to see his concerns and be cognizant of the fact that if I end up getting transferred, I really have to be in a good place and have faith, even for his sake. Since we never go to hospitals or doctors, and I paint this picture of them, he would be so nervous in the unfamiliar environment. But at least, with good reason!
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It will be interesting to see what kind of woman he marries and what kind of daddy he turns out to be! If he marries a mainstream woman, he might be the one to educate her on childbirth. lol
My children, even the young ones, talk about how home birth babies are the best, because my two home birth children have the best temperaments, especially my UC, my c-section child has been a struggle. I hope my children remember all this when they are older.
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