Hypno-Birthing!!

Hey all...

its been some time since I posted on my blog and lots to share!! Ill just bullet the stuff then give details .. New Picture, New due date, New Hypnobirthing class, New Dr. and NEW BABY NAME!! SO MANY NEW THINGS this month!!

First Check the new picture ...:) I'm getting ENORMOUS!! heres me on the morning before what was 4 weeks after my other picture (what WAS to be 30 weeks) the reason I say it like that is because that day I got an ultrasound and the baby was growing so well that she was marking growth for 31.3 weeks :P so the Due date was pushed BACK to Dec 28th!!

I started my Hypno-birthing classes mid October and should end this week. They are so much fun, and it just makes SO MUCH SENSE!! I'm kinda frustrated with the way some things are turning out but I think I'm gonna do just fine in the long run! Its seriously like training for a MARATHON!! I just hope I can keep it up!! Actually I KNOW I can!! and I WILL!! I have to listen to my Birthing Affirmations for a half hour a day (I do it on my way to work, on those days I make it an extra full hour both back and fourth so I get quadrupole duty those days!!) then My Rainbow relaxation... which is a half hour.. every day... then 3-4 times a week I need to practice my "Deepening exercises." its alot of work but its SO WORTH it to me!!

The basic theory behind it is that all animals.. including humans have painless birth... its only when other humans, fear and medicine interfear that PAIN occurs... because people round the world have and still have painless births. It is only in the Western Society (mainly Europe and the US) that women FEAR birth, and they let Medical model birthing occur which creates fight or flight fear in the mother, thus draining the uterus of its blood, thus creating a cycle of confirming the pain, thus creating a deeper fear of pain, stalling the labor, introducing Pitocin which doesn't produce ANY Oxytocin but ONLY Produces pushing of the baby into the Cervix which is not ready which WILL cause pain thus confirming the thought that labor = pain... and the cycle continues!! Any way .. So in nature and the other countries their women have painless births because they put themselves in a kind of "hypnotic" glazed over state while they give birth.. and just let the Uterus do its job and birth's the baby... Thus a painless birth.. with alot of "pressure.." but not pain...

So yeah, I'm very excited about it!

I've also had some Dr drama!! I have been contemplating a switch for quite some time, but I had a "rude awakening" when my Dr got very ANGRY because I was asking about his C-Section rates.. have something to hide much ? hahah so I switched to a new OB this week. I was really wanting the Nurse Midwife but she SHATTERED her shoulder riding a motorcycle this month so she can do any deliveries till Jan.. so that puts me out of the running for her... but over all I think I'm gonna be fine! The Dr. I ended up going with, his wife had 4 Bradley Births (similar to Hypno birthing) so I KNOW he is DOWN with natural!!

My baby shower is next week! I'm so very excited about it! Ill be sure to not let a month go by before I post pictures of it!!

Baby name change might happen! I'm REALLY liking the new name!! It all started when the date changed recently, and when my friend recently had her baby.... on Halloween and they were gonna give their baby a Haloweeny middle name just for celebration of the holiday. She asked if i was gonna do that if Donna was born on Christmas.. I was thinking Jeeeez... the new due date IS only 3 days from Christmas... REALLY close to Christmas.. what if I have her on Christmas?? **panic ensued** I hadn't really thought about it I was so set on her being a New years baby that the christmas thing never even crossed my mind.. So I thought about it.. and people were tossing around all kinds of names like Christa, Joy, Star, Harmony, Bell, Bella, when when someone said Noel and I was like OHH YEAH I LOVE THAT!! and with Donna.. Donna Noel... its just sound so GOOD!! So I was thinking if she's born on Christmas or Christmas eve it would be Donna Noel.. and otherwise Donna Elizabeth... but now after 2 weeks of hearing it... I'm really LOVING the Donna Noel....

so I have decided that if she is born in December PERIOD its gonna be Donna Noel... and January Donna Elizabeth.....