Well I had a meat free day yesterday, not Mike and Jacob though. Mike got Jacob ready for school - forgot about it and made Jacob a ham sandwich. I had cereal for breakfast, Boca meatless Chik’n patty on a sandwich for lunch and I made cream of potato soup for dinner. I was really yummy :) I think today is another meatless day because I haven't had any yet and we are having leftovers for dinner!

I saw this amazing web site on Mothering today http://pushedbirth.com/. The first post is for the new guidelines for birth in the UK. They are so far ahead of us!!

Taken from the Blog:

• Women should have continuous labor support from a midwife.
• Interventions such as amniotomy (instrumentally breaking the bag of waters), synthetic oxytocin, and continuous electronic fetal monitoring should not be administered routinely.
• Movement should be encouraged throughout labor and women should adopt whatever positions they find “most comfortable.”
• Laboring in the water is recommended for pain relief; women should be fully informed of the risks and benefits of epidural anesthesia before choosing it.
• Women should be “discouraged” from lying flat or reclining during the pushing stage and should be “encouraged to adopt any other position.”
• Women should have the choice of where to give birth — home, hospital, or midwifery-led clinic.

This is the complete opposite from what I experienced at my hospital birth with Jacob. I was not asked about anything and was in way too much pain to even speak or say no. I was laying on my back the entire time which is why I think I was in so much pain. The pain of the last 45 min. or so with Owen's birth was how I felt for 15 hours (18 hr labor) with Jacob's birth. I truly believe that if I was able to walk around or get in the water or another position it would've went faster and the pain would not have been as bad. Instead I was poked and prodded and unaware of anything that was happening, nor did I really care because of all the pain. People are always asking me if I would have another home birth. I always say absolutely. I never realized what a bad experience I had until I had a home birth.

Here is Owen in his Rock star outfit from Sunday :)



His first Air Guitar lesson:



By the way I got the babylegs he is wearing at http://mom4life.com/
They have free shipping on ALL babylegs. They were shipped really fast too!!