Friday, April 17, 2009

Another post from my email, which will probably be much more regular now that I can only be online twice a day for 30 minutes. I can do email pretty much whenever I want. 

So I tried a different recipe for hair shampoo. It's got lemon juice, water, four, and mayonnaise in it. I tried it yesterday and it worked! It just doesn't later, so you really have to work it into your hair. I told David that I used homemade shampoo and he said that he was really happy that I'm being so frugal and trying to save as much money as I can but I don't need to go that far. :/ Oh well! I was trying to find things that were all natural, guess that idea is thrown out! He does like that I've been cooking in the crock pot as much as 3 nights a week! That saves so much time and actually money too because I'm not using the oven as much. I think I'll be using it a lot during the summer because then I won't be heating the house up with the oven on. 

One of my classmates (from high school) had her baby this week. I guess she didn't know the sex until she had "baby A" because that's what they were calling the baby on facebook. She had a girl and named her Lexi. I guess that's a pretty name, but I wouldn't choose it. Although, people are probably going to say the same thing about the names we choose for our children. 
Speaking of babies, I am so set on having our children at home. I really hope that I don't have an at risk pregnancy (whenever I do get pregnant). I just love the idea of being home while having my child, without nurses all around and having to pay a lot for having a baby! There's a website called the business of being born and that's exactly what childbirth is, the baby and the mother's body know exactly what to do. A lot of people will ask me "well, what if something goes wrong?" and I have to say "I'll put that in God's hands." I also love the idea of "rooming in" with your child. I think there is too much of the idea of the independent child, because I don't think children should be independent. They are to be dependent of their parents, that's what parents are for. Anyway, I should probably stop here before I get into too much of a rant. Haha! 



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think a home birth is a great idea. Especially if it is what you really want to do. You won't be happy any other way. I just want to make sure that when the time comes you will have someone there that can take care of a problem if you have one. Like a midwife or a friend who is a nurse or something like that.

After my experience with Madison, it makes me nervous to think the same thing could happen to you and you would be at home without help. Had I not been at the hospital, my husban and baby would have gone home alone.

It was something we did not expect. The preganacy had been perfect, but things do happen. I would have died if the doctors weren't there.

The severity of my first birth is, of course, dictating wether or not we can have more children, which IS a God thing, so I do understand what you are saying about that :)

Also, consider that a midwife is not cheap. If you have a natural birth like I did at a hospital the price will likely be just about the same as getting a midwife.

Just pray about it please before you make any decisions. I have to say my view on some things had changed since I've had my baby :)

Much love!
Kristin

NiNa said...

Good for you Liz. I wish you luck in your home birth.