14 Weeks

 

 

I am now 14 weeks and feeling much better! My stomach isnt has sensitve and I am starting to get my energy back. I do have a few headaches a week but overall everything is going great. I am now looking pregnant no matter what I wear.

 

Ryan and I took our first bradely method class saturday and actually enjoyed it much more then I thought we would. It was very informative and with only 3 other couples in the class we get a lot of personal adivce. One thing the class led us to decide is to get a doula. I think it will help a lot with both of us being more comfortable come day of delivery. I am still looking for a midwife but I have decided that I want to deliver at North Fulton. I have one appt thursday and two more to call to schedule appts with so hopefully out of those I will find one. We have also decided that we are going to look further into a waterbirth.

The Business of Being Born

The Business of Being Born is an awesome movie! It made me and Ryan both very excited about our choice to use a midwife and to go with a drug free birth plan. I was so suprised about some of the statisics that are in the film and how eye opening it was. I truly believe that my body was made for this and that I am beyond blessed to have the chance of experiencing it. Hopefully will go well and my birth will be very similar to my birth plan but only time will tell.  It got me researching some of the different aspects of it.

The c-section rate is beyond high in our country and I found out that the state of ga is actually a little higher than the national average. This is the chart for 2011.

 This made me really want to look in to my hospital choices...I have three hospitals around me that are easy enough to get to. My main reason for looking up all theses percentages is bc I don't want to worry about a hospital that is use to pushing a woman to speed up her delivery or to have a c section if not absolutely necessary. The main hospital around me is Northside Forsyth(nicknamed the baby factory) I knew I didn't want to go there as I have heard many times how unfriendly they are with natural and drug free birth plans. And after watching that movie I decided to look up their c-section rate.....37.1%  My other two options are Emory Johns Creek and North Fulton Regional right now I am currently having my prenatal care with Modern Ob/GYN and would deliver at Emory...I haven't really found to much wrong with them and the hospital but I have a better choice and now my choice. Alpharetta women's specialist and deliver at North Fulton. I have decided to go with a midwife and very excited to actually meet my midwife, well hopefully my midwife, lets all pray I like her so I don't have to hunt one down all over Atlanta haha. Oh by the way North Fulton c section rate is 10.4%

I am though going to start looking into water birth since north fulton does offer birthing tubs.

The First Trimester

I didn't really start this at the VERY beginning so I am going to play catch up and sum up the first trimester here.  I decided that I want a natural and drug free birth, well thats the plan atleast, and to do that Bradley Method classes were going to be the way to go. I still want to deliver in a hospital so if something does go wrong or if me or the baby needs in medical attention it wont be a problem. Ryan is being very supportive in all this and has gladly decided to give up his one day off of work for 12 weeks to come to birthing classes with me! (Love him for it!!!) We had found a doctor we thought we liked but realized we had a better option so we decided to go with a midwife and deliver at North Fulton(still making some final descisions on provider)..I have a bunch of decsion and ideas to work out and go over with my birthing plan but more on that later ...The morning sickness or in my case the all the day sickness wasn't to horrible. I had to make sure that I had something to eat almost every hour and I drank a bunch of water and poweraid but I never really got 'sick'(that lasted till about 9weeks or so). Around 10 weeks I started feeling pretty good but I still get really tired in the afternoon or really anytime I do to much of anything. Each day though I am feeling better and getting more energy so hopefully I will be able to start getting some things around the house done to prepare for our little one.

 Week 10 we got to go to the doctor to see our baby! It was a truly amazing thing, Ryan and I both got a little emotional being able to see for the first time a postive test turn into a hand that could wave at us! We got to see the little gummybear bouncing all around and even saw a little hand waving. When we heard the heartbeat I cried. Ryan and I are truly blessed and can not wait to welcome this bundle of joy in to our home!



Hopefully now that I am started every weekend I will be able to update this and add my pictures and such but here are a two that I have already taken.