We're one today! It's been a whole year since I posted this. Can you believe it? It's a little crazy.
It's also a little scary because it means that we are moving closer and closer to our departure date, unless Michael is offered another year here... I am looking forward to going home, it is just a little nerve-wracking to have no work lined up, and a little mouth with a big belly... Anyway...
The whole reason I started this blog was so that I could share our adventures (and misadventures) with family and friends back home, plus have a nice record of Jimmy's first year(s). I know I haven't shared absolutely every (this blogging thing takes time and energy), there is one story that needs to be here, but it just hasn't made it: Jimmy's birth story.
I've been thinking about sharing it for some time, but didn't manage to during the week of his birthday - I think I ran out of energy. Not long after he was born I wrote 2-3 versions of Jimmy's birth. Writing it was very theraputic at the time, sharing it was even more so, and hearing other birth stories also helped put things in perspective. I now have over 18 months of perspective and look back at those heady, hormonal days fondly, although I'll be the first to admit that birth hormones play tricks on birthing mothers minds...
Please be aware that I might get into some medical detail that will either a) gross you out or b) make you cranky because I've related some medical thingy wrong. If it's the latter, I should point out that I'm an ecologist, not a doctor, and this was my experience, my perception (with some details filled in by Michael and our midwife), and things might be different in your part of the world.
Oh and there may be a picture or two with blood in it - this is a birth story! And if you want a bit of a spoiler, check out this photo...
This is the birth story of Jimmy-bubba.
