Surviving the Domestic Jungle

I had my 6 week check up today and I wanted to take a moment and really praise the whole midwife experience. I know I went back and forth at various times about whether I liked the experience or not, but I am firmly saying that it was a great experience. I freaked out a few times that I felt I was having issues and got prescribed water, but ultimately, the whole point of a midwife is to allow you to do what is best for you and not pump you full of medicine or take radical, expensive routes to make you better. Sometimes I freak out and feel like I need major medical intervention because fear takes over but when you chill out and let your body do its own thing, most of the time it can handle it! I had a baby and walked out of there 6 hours later feeling good. No drugged feeling, no pain when I walked because they didn’t snip me (THANK GOD!) and I healed extremely fast in my own home. I wasn’t exposed to all the germs that hospitals have, I didn’t have an enormous bill and my family was with me the whole time. My daughters and mom literally met Hudson 2 minutes after he was born and that was so special to me. I had breakfast with my girls in the REAL bed and just hung out. I would do it again in a heartbeat. You forget the pain but you don’t forget feeling safe and comfortable. I am so thankful to the midwife that delivered me and the one that I saw today that literally gave me my first pain free pap. It was so relaxed and not sterile like at my old gyno who had to have a nurse in the room looking at my vagina too! The whole experience was well worth it and I am so thankful to everyone who lead me and my son to a healthy birth.