June 02, 2012

Curveball #1 - Eden Loraine

So, I haven't been posting much on here lately, but I have a good reason - and her name is Eden Loraine. Just over three weeks ago, I was 36 weeks pregnant and we were busily attempting to get things in order for the upcoming birth of our child. We went to bed on the night of May 8th assuming we'd be spending the next morning getting the yurt tidied up for when our midwife came that afternoon for our homevisit. I'd been spending the previous weeks washing cloth diapers, washing and sorting baby clothes, washing spare towels and sheets for the homebirth and emailing people on Craigslist looking to purchase a bed for the yurt. Just days before we'd cleared out the "nursery" corner of the cabin and set it up with a dresser full of baby clothes and a bassinett.

All this "nesting" was supposed to get us ahead of the game, well prepared and anxiety free when the big day actually came. I must have sent the wrong signal to my body though because at 3 a.m. on the morning on May 9th, while attempting to roll over in bed, my water broke, and there was no turning back. We missed our homebirth window of 37-42 weeks by just one week and ended up at the hospital. While not the homebirth experience we had planned on, we really couldn't have asked for a better hospital scenario. We were well cared for and allowed to take a very natural course, attended by a pair of competent and caring midwives, and at 7:05 am on May 10th, Miss Eden Loraine made her debut. She was a tiny one at 5 lbs 4.5 oz, but fully functional and pretty much perfect.





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