Comments on: The gospel of I’m Here for You http://grabapple.net/entry/357 No moneyman can win her love. Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:13:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dr. Confused http://grabapple.net/entry/357/comment-page-1#comment-32431 Dr. Confused Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:00:46 +0000 http://grabapple.net/entry/357#comment-32431 <p>I so wish you could train as a midwife in the next five months, and then come attend me. For free. Because of course my insurance only covers hospital birth.</p> <p>I wish I were having a homebirth. I wish I had the perfect midwife, someone who understands all the science without any of the spiritual baggage. But it won't happen, and so I'm doing the best I can with what I have. So far my midwives seem not bad, but they're constrained by the system in which they have to work.</p> I so wish you could train as a midwife in the next five months, and then come attend me. For free. Because of course my insurance only covers hospital birth.

I wish I were having a homebirth. I wish I had the perfect midwife, someone who understands all the science without any of the spiritual baggage. But it won’t happen, and so I’m doing the best I can with what I have. So far my midwives seem not bad, but they’re constrained by the system in which they have to work.

]]> By: emjaybee http://grabapple.net/entry/357/comment-page-1#comment-23058 emjaybee Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:36:15 +0000 http://grabapple.net/entry/357#comment-23058 <p>Thank you Yatima, that means a lot to me. Sorry it took so long to approve your post, it got caught in my spamfilter.</p> Thank you Yatima, that means a lot to me. Sorry it took so long to approve your post, it got caught in my spamfilter.

]]> By: Yatima http://grabapple.net/entry/357/comment-page-1#comment-21537 Yatima Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:12:47 +0000 http://grabapple.net/entry/357#comment-21537 <p>Came here from Doctormama's blog and cried over your awful birth story - all the more because I had my daughter Julia the same day you had Nathan. I'm beyond thrilled to learn that you're going to be a midwife. I think you'll be <a href="http://www.yatima.org/archives/000612.html#000612" rel="nofollow">amazing.</a></p> Came here from Doctormama’s blog and cried over your awful birth story – all the more because I had my daughter Julia the same day you had Nathan. I’m beyond thrilled to learn that you’re going to be a midwife. I think you’ll be amazing.

]]> By: Casey http://grabapple.net/entry/357/comment-page-1#comment-20525 Casey Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:03:56 +0000 http://grabapple.net/entry/357#comment-20525 <p>Love this post.</p> Love this post.

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