Thank you so much for reading Tegam. I have really appreciated your support and caring through my whole journey xx It really was a spectacular birth and the crazy thing is you can't plan the unplanned so I could never have planned for it to surprise me in it's awesomeness like that... but I wish I had known and not have had to go through the damn rollercoaster ride my pregnancy turned out to be!
Congratulations Boomba!!
Freya, I didn't have the energy to reply to the posts in the FB group but I think there was a little too much focus on the CMP and publicly funded homebirths letting women down. I guess, honestly, they do risk women out more often than an IM would but I think the homebirth scene has become very risk adverse with the witch hunt that goes on. So I think you're seeing more and more IMs risk women out of their care for more minor reasons too. I don't think it hurts to talk to your CMP MW and get her honest opinion on the program. And it doesn't hurt to talk to some IMs and get a conversation going there too. I changed MWs at 30 weeks so it's not too late if that's what you decide to do.
Im making an appointment to sit down and discuss options with the My Midwives branch here in Perth. They are medicare eligible and Ive discovered our health fund also allows some rebate for ante/post natal and birth costs for private midwifery. If I can utilise those things to get the costs down to manageable I think DH may be persuaded to let me go the IM route. I still dont feel entirely comfortable with the whole hospital program thing so yeah, cant hurt to look in to other things.
Either way I had my 20wk scan today, baby is looking great! Placenta is well out of way of my cervix, bub is measuring above 65th percentile which means no small-for-dates/IUGR concerns. Everything was where it should be and doing what it should be. So now we grow and wait!
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