i always admire your art! if i can scrounge up some cash, i think i'd like to get one of your pieces are you open to painting by request, or do you just work off your inspiration? i wish i had that kind of talent; to just paint what you feel or what you see in your head. amazing. at best i can make a mean tie dye or knit a cool hat or blanket. sewing cloth diapers is my new passion. i guess i'm more of a textile artsit, lol.
look at your little man being worn by his mama he's grown, mir, isn't the development awesome??!!
yeah, being in the birth business is quite neat, but i think it's good that you want to wait to be a doula; hendrix needs you and you need him for a while longer (a bit of a while ). b/c vash is almost 9 months, i can be away here and there, i can pump my milk and she will eat a few solids (we're self-feeding) if i have to be away from her at a birth. i also have a unique childcare situation, and am allowed to bring vashti to some of the prenatal appointments i attend. if it weren't for that, i'd probably wait until she weaned, but it's all good for now. also, i think that with you being a doula you will find that you will have to be at a birth longer than any other support person (barring the woman's partner). however, it is possible that if you are with a woman in a long early labor, you could get whoever is caring for hendrix to bring him to you for a nursing every few hours until the active labor gets going. i actually plan on doing that with vash if i am at a labor that is long; that or i'll bring my pump with me, ha ha.
look at your little man being worn by his mama he's grown, mir, isn't the development awesome??!!
yeah, being in the birth business is quite neat, but i think it's good that you want to wait to be a doula; hendrix needs you and you need him for a while longer (a bit of a while ). b/c vash is almost 9 months, i can be away here and there, i can pump my milk and she will eat a few solids (we're self-feeding) if i have to be away from her at a birth. i also have a unique childcare situation, and am allowed to bring vashti to some of the prenatal appointments i attend. if it weren't for that, i'd probably wait until she weaned, but it's all good for now. also, i think that with you being a doula you will find that you will have to be at a birth longer than any other support person (barring the woman's partner). however, it is possible that if you are with a woman in a long early labor, you could get whoever is caring for hendrix to bring him to you for a nursing every few hours until the active labor gets going. i actually plan on doing that with vash if i am at a labor that is long; that or i'll bring my pump with me, ha ha.
happy new year to you, too!!
:mj: