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Monday, December 17, 2001 -- 6 weeks to go!!! Meeting w/ doula 6 weeks and counting....
We met with our doula on Saturday. Since she's also my yoga teacher, it wasn't like meeting for the first time or anything. We basically met to discuss her role and what she would provide us at the birth. She is sooooooooo excited about our birth!!! A home birth.... in Naperville...... She is just jumping for joy. The only other home births she has attended have been those of her other doula/yoga teacher friends. She is mostly excited about the different role she will get to play at our birth. When she does hospital births, her role is usually that of a protector. She tries to help the couple stick to their original wishes and plans for a natural, active birth in a hospital that has a 90% Epidural rate, a 75% Episiotomy rate, a 35% C-section rate, etc.... Our docs and our doula are all on the same page as us. So her job is going to be - "to bliss me out!" Our plan is that d-day is going to be like a wonderful day at a spa. There will be a nurse, a midwife, a doula, and Pete, and their job is to pamper me like I've never been pampered before. A darkened room, colored christmas lights everywhere, a nice warm tub of water, lovely scented oils and candles, whatever music I want, whatever food and drink I want, and lots and lots and lots of massage, hair brushing, neck stroking, foot rubbing, shoulder kneeding, hip squeezing, etc... The idea is to flood my five senses with so much good stuff that I relax into a lump and the pain will have a harder time getting through to my brain. They will be with me from start to finish, unless Pete and I want some alone time at some point, to encourage me, breathe with me, chant with me, do whatever is necessary to help me help myself to get the baby out. It will not be like what I see in many "A Baby Story" episodes, where the couple is often left alone and is checked on occasionally by the nursing staff. Or when you see the husband holding the wife's hand, but the rest of the family is just standing there watching her labor, on her back, in bed. Well, her being excited, makes me even more excited! I'm definitely not dreading d-day, but I'm totally looking forward to it!
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