Oh my gosh, I am in love with my midwives!

Today I met with Julie and her apprentice, Natasha, for my first prenatal appointment. Most of the appointment was spent going over my medical history. The last bit of the appointment was about discussing my diet, and what we can do to try and eliminate my nausea.

I feel like I'm being spoiled. I'm used to doctors appointments that last 15 minutes or less. The doctor never asks how I'm feeling, or if she does she really doesn't care, it's more of a courtesy kinda thing. Where as we spent nearly 2 hours with Julie and Natasha. They were extremely attentive and seemed really concerned about my well being.

Last week I was asked to be keep a journal of my diet. Julie and Debbie want to know the kind of nutrients I get on a daily basis. I was a little nervous about doing this. I know I'm not the healthiest eater.

My diet especially suffered last week because I was nauseous and vomiting for the entire week. I tried to eat healthy, but my diet consisted 90% of carbs because it was the easiest on my stomach. However, Julie and Natasha were very understanding, and said that considering how much I was suffering, I ate fairly healthy last week. I do, however, need to eat more greens and orange veggies :)

The rest of my appointment consisted of checking my blood pressure and fundal height. Everything looks excellent :)

One totally awesome thing is that Julie is training to be a homeopath. To help with my nausea she gave me some remedies to take (which seem to be working rather well ^-^). She also said that there are certain remedies that can help me during labor (if Julie is on call when I give birth). Other suggestions she had were to drink warm liquids: hot water, ginger tea, peppermint tea, red raspberry leaf tea (I'm currently drinking hot water and honey, working like a charm).

We discussed all of my aches and pains and she had a potential remedy for all of them. When I went to see my doctors they never asked me if I was having hip pain, or heartburn. And if I did tell them, they certainly didn't give me any remedies for them. I typically got, "That's normal pregnancy pain". What kind of advice is that?

All in all I am very happy, and extremely excited about the adventure that lays before us!