Whenever a baby is born in Matt’s family, Matt’s mom makes a baby quilt, and gorgeous ones at that. This past weekend for Mother’s Day, we went to a local quilt shop where I picked out the colors for our baby’s quilt. Here’s some pictures I took with my camera phone while at the quilt shop.
Obviously, since we don’t know the sex (and aren’t planning on finding out) the colors will be gender neutral, with an emphasis on greens and blues and a sprinkling of typical pastel baby colors. I’m so excited to see the finished product.
Also this week we toured a local birthing center. We were disappointed on a couple levels. First of all, unless you call the center as soon as you have a positive pregnancy test, the chances of you being able to birth with one of their midwives is slim to nil. Of course, they want to limit their practice to twenty-five deliveries per month, and this makes perfect sense, however, over half the attendees there (including ourselves) are on the waiting list and have little chance of making the cut. Secondly, we learned basically nothing during the informational session. From our extensive reading, we were well aware of how birthing centers operate as well as what midwives can and cannot do. I believe this is completely representative of the average population. People do more research when buying a car. However, I did like the earthy midwife conducting the session and know if this is an option for future children, I will have the phone in hand when I pee on a stick. But, this really isn’t an open option to us at this time.
I guess I’m resigned to the fact that other than choosing a midwife that our insurance won’t cover, we need to stay put at the practice we are currently with. Our other options (covered by insurance) are to go to a birthing center about an hour away or to choose another midwife practice about forty-five minutes away. At this time, I’m not sure these are options to pursue. Oh, wouldn’t life be easier if I didn’t give a damn?