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All the carping today about the NHS and maternity care has got me more than a little agitated, now I've only got about 15 weeks to go...As you may recall from this very blog I had a rather long labour, but two marvellous midwifes who helped me through the whole thing and kept me out of hospital. Even so, it was scary and difficult and the physical and emotional recovery took me about a year. At the time I consoled myself with the thought that I would never go through it again and here I am, about to go through it all again.
Mr McMuffin seems more relaxed this time, assuming I'll have a home birth and moaning that he can't be doing with the birth pool as he can't be bothered to empty it out. Apparently it was a real pain and took about half an hour to do. I would have helped, only I think I was being stitched at the time. However, I'm probably more anxious (if that's possible) than I was the first time and the bloody news doesn't help!
mrs mcmuffin on 25 Jan 2008 @ 10:10 PM ✲ Permalink
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I have no idea what news is afoot for the NHS but I can say that the one thing you can surely count on for your next delivery is that you can't count on anything being the same. Does that sound less than comforting? I mean it in a good way too...maybe your labor will be quick and you'll not need the swimming pool this time!
Posted by: Karan | 26 Jan 2008 01:17:21
Oh let's hope it's quicker! My sister is still traumatised from watching me pushing for hours and hours and getting more and more knackered. I would like an easy birth and a nice and clever, but quite sleepy baby, who sleeps through the night by three months-not asking for much then!
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 26 Jan 2008 20:17:55
