My Midwife journey.....

 With all this talk of going back to the 1950's and with the completion of the successful BBC series 'Midwives' it got me thinking of my midwife journey. So way back in 1998  as I started my pregnancy journey .. clutching my copy of  Emma's Dairy  I went to see my midwife.


Emma Driary is a source of brilliant information for pregnant ladies , well it was for me anyway. Ever the pragmatist  I pointed at the bit in my copy of  Emma's Driary ( 1998 )  the bit where it mentioned Domino Delivery and this sadly is not anything to do with a successful pizza delivery service  .


It's when the midwife is with you at home for the majority of the labour, you then go in for the actual birth and then are home as soon as possible after the birth, sometimes within a couple of hours of delivery. It's a way of spending the maximum time at home and not in hospital but with midwife assistance.. Which is pretty much what is talked about currently. I was  laughed out of the Doctors surgery with the words ringing in my ears " We don't have the resources for that! ".


 I should have complained but I didn't  at the time now I would  as it happens it wouldn't have been suitable becasue of the complications I went on to have. But I would liked to have the oppurtunity intially to have it.

I am 39 and a bit... so...........

I am 39  and this year I am that age so what?

Do I have to have endless celebrations like my work colleagues ?

Do I have to have a midlife crisis?

Do I have to dye my hair lose 4 stone and rediscover myself?

Do I start to think I am old enough to be your  mother ?  this is referring to exactly that and not window shopping...as if....

What do I do?

mmmmm

I could learn how to cook cakes... seriously have you seen my cake cooking posts?

I could learn how to cook...

I could learn how to sew...

I could learn how  to dance...

I could learn how to drive....

I could ride a Roller coaster again .... last time I was 12.

I could try and learn the off side rule.....

Pondering a midlife crisis.....

I am challenging Catherine to write about being 39 and a bit.. sorry to give your age away !

Silent Sunday 26/02/2012

Invisibility... its great !

 Invisibility is great  so you are a quiet and lonely sort does it matter no. Whether you are quiet in the real world or across the realm of social media it doesn't really matter. You think your voice isn't being heard but I assure you in some small way that it is.

I feel life is to sort to worry about such thinking's now, yes I might have the occasional lasp  and be ooh woe is me . But as I have come to realise its my blog my rules, obviously i have to be careful as I work in a school. I am not the sort to sear and  blog about naughty things anyway that's not me and not my style.

I am a social watcher much the same as you observe life when eating at say a Parisian cafe..... I am never nasty. Now I don't aspire to belong to any social set  whether it me here or in the real world . I just go with the flow.

You have seen the film 'Wonderful Life'  ? Good that's exactly how I used to feel but not now except the bit at the end where you get that warm fuzzy feeling.  I just tune it and tune out,think Dylan the rabbit in 'Magic Roundabout' and that's me now. Except on the days when I mess my blog up then I am running  around like a headless chicken.

So use what you've been dealt with as a bonus to you and don't feel you have to go my the flow of what happening  around  you  in the cyber world or real life,

Caption Saturday 25/02/2012

 You are just strolling inncoently in New York and run into this....