Today we visited our second midwife. We are anxious to start building a relationship with our care provider and to have someone to address our questions. Sean is ready for an expert to enter into the support team and I am ready to start making the next set of decisions.
We both loved Ms. June. She was warm and kind. She had just the right about of "mothering" to her personality- enough to make you feel comfortable telling her anything, but not so much that she calls you "hon" (one of my initial fears). We are going to think more about it tonight, sleep on it, see if we want to interview anyone else, but our feeling right now is that Ms. June is person we'd like to have at our side when we deliver our baby. It's so exciting to be able to write that, and with confidence!
I have not been feeling too well. It's not that my nausea is overly strong- it sort of pulses in severity through out the day- but it is constant. I been drinking raspberry leaf tea and snacking lots. It's hard to tell what's working and sometimes it feels like all the efforts to ward off the ickiness are pretty feeble.
Our list of "who's in the know" has grown a little. We were attempting to keep it to the immediate families and a few key friends, but it's definitely spreading. Sean was congratulated on the golf course last weekend. Aunt Sharla didn't realize the power of the Facebook network- so a few friends of friends of friends of friends know. No one that is in our circle so it's more funny than anything else. I couldn't get through happy hour with Jackie and Christopher with out letting the news out- I guess it makes sense that your drinking buddies are some of the first to know. So Mom and Dad Gustafson, Larry, Dee Dee, Sharla, Sheri, Tim, Cohen, Lorelei (I doubt she'll tell anyone), Derek and family, Lizzie, Molly S, Christina and Tom, Eric and Molly, 204 of Sharla's Facebook friends... wow, we are bad at secrets. I guess the cat is out of the bag and we might just need to pick up the phone to make sure the rest of our friends and family get in on the excitement.
