baby born~ a little relief for time

this damn weather pixie is not supposed to be here, but on the side bar of this blog.
oh well.

my december client had a beautiful waterbirth monday night. kate and stacia were there to assist, although in the end, baby came so fast they came in the room just as or immediately after baby was born. lovely labor, lovely birth. easy postpartum healthiest client in the world award. great shape, awesome diet, bled very little afterward, her bottom looked completely normal as if no baby (that was nearly 9#!) just came through there!
comical at points. this woman had a very bulgy bag of water and she knew i don't like tampering with the natural order of things and didn't want to break it. she didn't ask outright, just complained of it being in the way. at one point she reached inside and felt the bag. "Damn bag! Just break already!" followed by: "Can I break it myself?"
Me: Go ahead.
So she reached in and pinched the bag. It was tough to break but she broke the forebag a bit and found a lot of relief from that. About 10 minutes later there was a big pop from the bag with a lot of fluid, and about 90 seconds after that her baby came flying out with no pushing effort whatsoever. a feisty little girl shot into the water like a little fish and then out onto her mama's breast.
wonderful!
phew.
feels so good. now i'm back to focusing on the narm skills exam once again. as of today, i will be taking it next wednesday with a back up date of the 23rd.

went to a new doctor today. same holistic md greg and sarah have seen. i've been having crazy blood sugar issues for the past few months. i'm not terribly concerned, just annoyed by it. so i'm being sent for a horrible glucose tolerance test (the same kind one has in medical care during pregnancy) and a few other things. also having an abdominal ultrasound because my pancreas feels funny (slightly enlarged?) and he wants to rule out some crazy insulin-emitting growth thing. don't know. also don't know when i'll find the time to fast for 12 hours only to sit in a lab for 4 hours doing a GTT. maybe monday and then I can bring my work and study.

went to annual midwife christmas party last friday. usually dread them but it wasn't so bad this year. felt like a Big Girl now. many sweet ladies congratulated me on opening my practice. felt like i was standing tall in my boots as opposed to usual "oh, you're X and Y's apprentice? how is their practice doing?" this year is was "How are YOU doing?" and of course, got to see my favorite comrades and drink some red wine and eat fine, midwifey-potluck food.

need to buy christmas gifts this weekend. we're completely broke (my client owes me a lot of money yet) and i realized christmas is only next weekend. i think my kids are done, but i have my mom, my dad, my MIL, and 5 nephews. The nephews alone are $100 (cheaply giving $20 a kid). have no idea what to get parents. made picture dvds for them , but need more. also want to get sarah her own bedroom radio/cd player. she's of that age where she wants to jam out in her bedroom while dancing and watching herself in big mirror. need a big mirror too. :)

supposed to take sarah to tutoring place tonight for placement testing. it's $50 that I don't have. and she's actually turned a big reading corner, so i'm torn about whether i should cancel or not. damn.

eamon is seeing a pediatric neurologist tomorrow afternoon. he's been having strange little fainting episodes. he'll be walking, talking, standing, whatever and then his eyes will roll back and his knees will buckle and he'll fall on the floor. then as quick as he falls he stands up again. his ped ruled out heart issues and referred us to neurology. says they're most likely little seizures. so he's supposed to sit for 1.5 hours with little electrodes taped all over his head for an EEG. ridiculous. he's not gonna sit for that long with things on his head! he flipped out for the 4 minutes we sat in a chair at fantastic sam's trying to give him a haircut!
hopefully it's nothing and something he'll grow out of.

wow. i'm really tired now. eamon's napping, might just go lay down with him for a bit.

ugh, must get christmas cards and stamps still! i'm so behind with all this stuff!

must work tonight at the CU before taking sarry for tutoring thing.