so sorry to have neglected the blog all week but not much happened. rosanna had a bad stomach bug so we will be seeing her next week. the babe is growing and seems to be enjoying staying down low, even though the top of my uterus is a little above my belly button. he's a cervix kicker, oh yay. even though it's a day early, i'll inform you now that he's about 7ish inches long from crown to rump and 10.5 ounces. tomorrow there'll be a picture!
so, i finally decided to find parker a new doctor. i've had such immense anxiety about taking her in (and not taking her in) ever since we stopped her vaccinations. i don't want a huge confrontation attacking our parenting decisions and we have already gotten some snarkiness from one of the nurses. parker always senses how nervous i am about the doc "finding out" that we cosleep, are choosing to have a homebirth, etc etc and so she freaks whenever we go. it suddenly occured to me today that it isn't worth it. we are paying the doctor. why not pay someone who will be supportive of our decisions. so, i asked to wonderful ladies at mdc and received a rec for a family practice guy that i hope will fit the bill! after snooping around on the web a bit and finding him on a few homebirth/natural family lists it seems like he actually might. so we're setting up an appointment for next week to interview him. hopefully he'll be a good fit for the whole family and i can stop having panic attacks everytime we need to see the doc!
in other news, we've finally reconnected with doug (my sophmore year english teacher/mentor) and shelley (his wife) after not seeing each other for way too long! they cooked us a lovely dinner last night and let parker play with their two bichon frises (who were SO sweet). parker actually started bawling when we got in the car and wanted to know where the "fwiends go?" so hopefully we'll be seeing them again soon. thanks again doug and shelley. *waves*
so, i finally decided to find parker a new doctor. i've had such immense anxiety about taking her in (and not taking her in) ever since we stopped her vaccinations. i don't want a huge confrontation attacking our parenting decisions and we have already gotten some snarkiness from one of the nurses. parker always senses how nervous i am about the doc "finding out" that we cosleep, are choosing to have a homebirth, etc etc and so she freaks whenever we go. it suddenly occured to me today that it isn't worth it. we are paying the doctor. why not pay someone who will be supportive of our decisions. so, i asked to wonderful ladies at mdc and received a rec for a family practice guy that i hope will fit the bill! after snooping around on the web a bit and finding him on a few homebirth/natural family lists it seems like he actually might. so we're setting up an appointment for next week to interview him. hopefully he'll be a good fit for the whole family and i can stop having panic attacks everytime we need to see the doc!
in other news, we've finally reconnected with doug (my sophmore year english teacher/mentor) and shelley (his wife) after not seeing each other for way too long! they cooked us a lovely dinner last night and let parker play with their two bichon frises (who were SO sweet). parker actually started bawling when we got in the car and wanted to know where the "fwiends go?" so hopefully we'll be seeing them again soon. thanks again doug and shelley. *waves*