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She had a late NVB after an IOL that didn't start til about 17:00 (SSH must have been dirt busy to have had a booked IOL start that late) and therefore the birth wasn't until approx 22:47 (which would have fell onto the night shift. She had lovely midwives including: Rebecca at the beginning - she's usually the incharge from the morning, so she would have done the admission because they'd have been short - one that was there at the birth of her first child (Samia - probably on the PM shift) and Yvonne for the birth (if I remember correctly Yvvonne is a very large Islander lady who is very very knowledgeable and very relaxed in charge who only does night shift and I thought she went on mat leave last year - but I guess she's back. I didn't really work there long enough or did enough night shifts to really know her, but she has a lovely voice and vibe from what I remember - it was a vacuum assisted delivery with episiotomy (and I think an epidural) and afterward she stayed the night- and left the next afternoon. Her first was similarly a vacuum delivery.

I'm glad Dea was pleased with the outcome. It sounds lovely. Makes me wish I was having the baby down at SSH only because I would be comforted by knowing the people, and the procedures, and the place etc.



And happy Australia day!

I keep waking up at 03:45. Going to pee (and don't pee all that much) and then have a helluvatime trying to get back to sleep which doesn't happen until about 05:00. It's not the baby. Just lay there awake my brain trying to get into my 'Mulder and Scully in that house in Virgina after The Truth and before the IWTB movie and failing miserably to use that dream sequence to go to dreamland.


Having it at MICH is starting to give me the heebejeebees. The midwives I've met are seniors in clinic who don't work in birth unit. So I have no idea who I'll get. I watched a video tour of the birth unit at MICH-- it looks a lot like MSH to be honest, with baths and showers inside a large bathroom within each room - unlike SSH which has an instagram style bath pool right in the center of most rooms along side the bed with blue in bathtub lighting which makes me feel like the woman is almost on display-- I prefer the privacy of the older, uglier bathrooms at MSH.

There isn't really a space for Dad to rest at MSH and it seems similarly at MICH. There's a pull out looking couch thing -- which doesn't look as good as the couch at SSH- (and some rooms at MSH has no restful chair for Dad (just a plastic hard looking thing) And IOLs can take forever. So that's the sucky thing about IOL's -- that they drag on and you can't enjoy the dragging bits at home due to the monitoring they require.

I've been trailing Pete a lot on my days off. I wonder how he's gonna deal with me being home so much after my last shift on Friday. Usually I'm not home. Between dragon boat, full time 12 hrs at MICH and casual shifts on top at SSH - there isn't much time for anything else.

Even in lockdown, I think I mostly kept to myself- my desk/computer- watching a tonne of x-files or buried deep in fanfiction ... and now I trail him around with the cat. What are you watching? or doing? Can I watch too?... lol.

I have set things to do tomorrow (and he has work) so there will be less puppy dog tomorrow.
I need to find boxes for the baby games party lunch on Sunday because I'm having heebeegeebees about everyone serving themselves from collective bowls.



I'm watching a bit of netflix whilst I watch this - one on minimalism which sounded like they were preaching about a new religion (not enjoyable) and now the social dilemma - which is basically putting me off social media more than I already was - whilst I write this.

I think social media is one of the scariest things about having children these days. How do you teach a child that social media (which seems to dominate a lot of people's lives) that it's not essential... and really .. is an addictive time waster- and full of companies taking advantage of you- ... that sounds like a minefield. I have a bunch of accounts but I rarely go to them unless I specifically have a reason to go there (like to find someone and talk to them about something and I've lost or had trouble finding their number). But fb didn't become a thing until I was 2nd year uni so a life without it is completely understandable to me.

To kids now, I don't know if that's a possibility.