The big day is coming soon...

I have decided, from the beginning, to have a homebirth. Manu has been supportive all the way.

In Mexico city , it's quite rare for a woman to birth at home. On the other hand, all the indigeous women do it at home, in the country side of Mexico. Here are the biggest reasons why I want to have a home birth:

1. I don't have to leave home to have our baby.

2. I know who will be here, in our home, it will be a small intimate group of people whom I trust and love.

3. There will be no intervention (epidural, IV, etc)

4. I won't come into contact with other sick people's germs in our own home!

5. I feel 100 % more comfortable in my home than in a hospital.

6. I want the most natural experience possible.

Of course if anything complication arises, then we are only a 5 mins. car ride from a small hospital called Maria Jose. I have visited it with my dad a few months ago, and it's pretty nice, considering it's a hospital! The private rooms look similar to a bedroom in a home...but let's keep our fingers crossed that we won't be going there!

We have a midwife, Laura Cao-Romero and a surgeon/homeopathic doctor, Yolanda Victoria who will be there for us.

Here is their website. http://www.parteras.org/

What I love about them, is that they see pregnancy and birth as a natural process. There was never any panic from their part throughout my pregnancy, even when I felt panicky...they calmed me by their wisdom and experience. I feel as though everything is going the way things should...naturally, and on its own time.

The date for little Simon's arrival is around the 10th of September. Manu is so excited and impatient for him to come out! I am mixed...part of me really wants to have him in my arms, start our lives together and get my belly back...and another part of me is enjoying the full night's sleeps, my freedom, the peace and quiet! But can't have both right?!

So...whenever little Simon is ready to come out, I'll be ready for him!

Still have a few things to get ready before...but of course, if they're not ready, no biggy.

By the way, it's going to be a full moon on the 5th. Laura, our midwife, told us that many births happen around the time after a full moon...so we'll see!!!!!!!