i like papaya salad

hello friends,

since blogging last, i got to attend a peacefully wonderful waterbirth with my two buddies here at the birth center. one is a nurse and the other is a midwife, both from a birth center (that is closing) in texas. we ate take out dinner at my house and got really jazzed up talking about birth. then, we all walked down to the birth center together and attended one. it was wonderful and i feel really spoiled by getting to be in the presence of such women. my head will hang in sorrow when they leave next week.

yesterday, i helped two moms with breastfeeding. e tagged along and helped me demonstrate the importance of a full latch instead of just the nipple. awesome. today, i did a surprise pre-natal visit for a mom who was at the clinic. it was a quiet day partly b/c our acupuncture doc was not there b/c she's leaving for the states this week and busy packing. we had the weekly monday potluck lunch at ibu r's house. my fave was the papaya salad. incredible food. at lunch, e told her dad that she "wants baby friends.". we promptly found one for her to play with for the remainder of lunch. then, we went back to the clinic so andy could solve some of their computer problems. i nursed ez to sleep on one of the couches after she got bored playing by the pond and with the rocks and reading books and sweeping and visiting the newborns. i hung out with a mom who was getting some breastfeeding help from the student midwife. a got an adjustment from our chiro roomie, then we ordered food and ate it up at the clinic. i dropped some penicillin off to ibu r so she could treat a mom who just gave birth and has a STD. the baby seems to have the STD, as well so the midwives are all doing research, calling the experts and thinking positive thoughts for the family. this is the first known case of a mom with a STD in the six years that the clinic has been functioning.

now, we're home and i am ready for some rest. love to you each.