Seven Days of Nourishment: Day 1

I love midwives. I highly recommend working with them when the opportunity presents itself. My first experience with my Edie pregnancy was wonderful and now that I'm going through the visits again I remember why I was saying how we were gawking at the price tag at first (was $3000 at the time, my girlfriends in Calgary are telling me the price has gone up to $4000) in the end we were both saying how we would have been happy to pay twice the amount seeing how attentive and one on one the care was and how truly specialized their area of expertise is; like they're from another world floating down to be your assigned pregnancy and birthing angel.

Luckily in BC where we live now, midwives costs are covered. At first I thought that this could be too good to be true and there must be a catch to this somehow but already my visits with them have proved that, unbelievably, this is not the case.

I think I remember with Edie I went a bit coo-coo at first with wrapping my mind and body around the prospect of building a new human being from a couple of cells. I called my midwife freaking out one day (I'm much better now) she talked me down over the phone for an hour and then had me come in to talk with her partner midwife who's also an acupuncturist. Those who know me in IRL (in real life) know I love me some acupuncture and the session totally nailed the needle on the chi spot. Amazing how much more like my normal self I feel today (though I have been feeling much better than my initial freak out few weeks ago. I think it's just a Kathy way to purge out some crazy to make room for baby).

I got a  beautiful pep talk and advice from her too during the treatment on paying attention to what it is that nourishes me and what doesn't. I blabbed three things right away; my morning latte, comfort food from my childhood (I went in to our local organic grocery store here yesterday asking for the closest thing they have to Wonderbread and apparently that was the first time anyone's ever asked that question there) and, I admitted kind of sheepishly, posting on my blog. Midwife/acupuncture said good, for a week write on your blog about what nourishes you and what doesn't. So that's what I'm doing. It'll be good for me. Please indulge me here:

拉花 Latte Art
Originally uploaded by Eat-My-Heart-Out 你吃,我看.

I borrowed this picture from flickr because I don't quite have the knack for latte art yet plus I'm still suffering some serious lazies when it comes to picture taking for some reason. I won't leave home without the camera for this assignment from now on. So the latte factor is just starting from the beginning. I tried to cut it out for a few days after the pee stick came out positive and I felt like serious crap. I made that Easter dinner and cleaned the whole house on a latte day, then the next three days I was super stuck on the couch. On the fourth day, I ordered a latte from the restaurant, my famous friend Elly (taught that serger class, makes incredible recycled wool clothing) made it, and it was night and day. I don't recommend caffeine withdrawal in the first trimester. My morning latte nourishes me.

What totally doesn't nourish me:

Conspiracy/dooms day talks/movies. Not positive. Especially now. Keep it away, keep it away. Instead, we've been attending (when we can get a sitter) a local study group for Oprah and Eckhart Tolle's Online New Earth course. Much more positive; and you can't get any cuter than Eckhart or any more influential on a global level than Oprah (11 million people signed up!). These two are really funny and exciting together. Check it out.

Comments

[EF x]

I secretly love Oprah, listen to her XM radio station, buy her mag, and surf her website. But we don't have a teevee so I don't get to see her shows, which is probably a good thing,I don't want to go too far, lol.

The Eckhart thang is good. I also like the Williamson 'Course in Miracles' series on XM. I couldn't handle the book (waaay too many words) but she's doing it in bite size daily lessons and it's a real helper.

I heard that a cuppa coffee a day is very healthy :)

(p.s: my newish craft blog at handycraftywoman.blogspot.com)

[The Spun Monkey]

we were blessed to have our midwifery 100% covered by the state of Oregon. i think it was a loophole that may now be closed. anyway, i can't imagine having chosen a better path for my care during that time. our midwife was, indeed, an angel and gifted guide and it changed my life forever in about a million ways. i remember she gave me a very similar assignment in regards to food/nourishment, and it was quite therapeutic. :)

[flowerchild]

Glad to hear you are doing better. Writing and thinking about what nourishes you is a good assignment. Midwives are the way to go forsure!

I am just starting to read A New Earth..excited to get into it!

I really am interested in your land you're selling, you could email the info or your phone number to bodo_baas@hotmail.com
If you ever get sad about selling your land, just think about that lovely strawbale house you're in nourishing you! ;)

flowerlady

[robyn]

i am so looking forward to reading your posts this week.
i'm sure its going to nourish me!