Welcome Our Dear Baby
I had my baby! And she is a girl!
We decided to have the baby at home to keep her safe and away from drugs and doctors who don’t know how to get babies out without cutting open your stomach or cutting the most sensitive part of the female body open. The midwives were absolutely beautiful and they really know how to help someone push a baby out.
I was assisted by my dear husband and mother.
I promise this will not turn into a baby blog, though, so the next post will be about homebirths and the different way people have babies in the U.S. and Tajikistan, and what my relatives think about my coming to America and paying thousands of dollars to have my baby in a house instead of in a birth center.
*For the uninitiated- babies lose weight in the first days because they poop out all of their poop from their time in the womb.
- Optimism | Time: 04.1.35 (UTC+8)
fascinating about the poop. congratulations!
Comment by paul — 24.10.2006 @ 09.1.51
Congrats! And looking forward to a blow-by-blow account!
Comment by Sylvia — 24.10.2006 @ 15.1.27
Ditto on Sylvia’s comment! I’m really looking forward to hearing you experience with homebirth.
And doesn’t it seem that paying thousands of dollars to give birth at home is still cheaper than giving birth at a hospital while uninsured???
Comment by Shannon — 24.10.2006 @ 15.1.37
Congratulations!!!!
Comment by asiyah — 24.10.2006 @ 16.1.45
Congrats! Hoping for the best of healt for both of you.
Comment by Q.A — 26.10.2006 @ 06.1.03
Highly excited. And you are incredibly brave to have a home birth for a firstborn. I would be wanting an epidural!
Comment by vasco pyjama — 27.10.2006 @ 11.1.20
Congrats!! (geez, seems like I’ve been typing that a lot this morning - lots to celebrate and that’s good!)
I refused the epidural, which a lot of people think was crazy. I did have to have a C-section though - his head was way too big. After 40 hours of labor and absolutely no progress, even with a couple of inducements, that was that! He was almost 10 lbs to boot! He also didn’t lose weight like they told me to expect. He gained 2 lbs a week for the first month. Yikes! I thought I had a baby version of Clifford, the Big Red Dog!
Congrats again! Yay for you!!
Comment by Sylvana — 28.10.2006 @ 15.1.15
Hey,
I work for the ONE Campaign and I’ve been tasked with looking for blogs that talk about extreme poverty and AIDS. Our Online Organizer here, Ginny Simmons, wants our blog (www.theONEblog.org) to be better connected with, and help to build up - the poverty blogosphere.
Yours is a website obviously well connected with other bloggers that deal with these issues and we would love to be able to network with you.
We recently put out a new ONE TV Spot. It’d be great if you wanted to post it on your blog. You can find code for the ad here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G3bNxStYBI&eurl=
The rest of our ONE videos are here: www.youtube.com/theonecampaign.
We’d be really interested in hearing from you. Please shoot an email back to me (one@one.org) with any questions, ideas or thoughts.
Thank you so much for all your good work and congradulations on the new baby!!
Meagan McManu
The ONE Team
Comment by The ONE Campaign — 30.10.2006 @ 16.0.33
Congrats!
Comment by Karla — 31.10.2006 @ 03.0.56
Congratulations!!! Congratulations!!!
Look forward to more poop stories. Sort of.
Comment by Paul C — 01.11.2006 @ 21.0.38
CONGRATULATIONS
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Every time I get to your blog, I tear up. This is a touching moment and I thank you for sharing it with us bloggers.
May your family be blessed with happiness beyond words, and odorless baby poop !
Comment by Beaver — 03.11.2006 @ 19.0.00
Belated congratulations on the new baby girl! We have two beautiful little girls ourselves, ages 1 and 3, and could not be happier (despite all the hard work).
Comment by Bill Day — 18.11.2006 @ 02.0.28
Very belated WELCOME TO OUR CRAZY WORLD Artemis! And congrats to your family. I really appreciated reading your article on birthing in T vs US. (I worked in maternal child health advocacy for 7 years here in the states. Was blessed to have both my boys - now nearly men - delivered by midwives with no pain meds. I appreciate your telling the stories of other places! I’m passing the link on to a global community of nurses and midwives!
Comment by Nancy White — 04.12.2006 @ 15.0.35