I missed it

Yesterday was International Midwives Day, and I missed it. But Barbara has a great post with some good links and interesting statistics in it. You should check it out.

It’s hard to believe that a year ago when I found out I was pregnant with Lucas, I was not yet on the midwife bandwagon. I only wish I’d found out how superior the midwife care would be back before I had Tristan and Simon, too.

I’m typing this one-handed, so I don’t have anything more for you right now (and ew, Lucas just spit up down my leg!) but I have a couple of posts in the hopper… hope to get something substantive out soon, but the nanny is gone and Beloved is working late these days so it’s all mommy all the time these days, and Lucas has his first cold to boot. Sigh.

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