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Busy week.
Last Friday I met with my midwife for the first time. She gave me great confidence in the practice as well as her individual abilities. She's been delivering babies for 24 years. She started the first ever midwifery in Atlanta 24 years ago. Several years later she retired and moved to Nashville to spend more time with grandchildren and such. But she quickly found out she was not cut out for retirement and took over a position at this practice (which is 10 years old) for a lady who was on maternity leave. When she started there, they were delivering about 8 babies a month. She showed them how to grow the practice and really get established. By the time the lady returned from maternity leave, they were delivering more like 30 babies a month. She's now only working part time and my next appointment is actually with another midwife there, but she'll be my primary and most likely the one delivery our baby.
While we were there, she scheduled an ultrasound for this week (Wednesday). This was the big anatomy ultrasound where they take all the measurements and make sure growth is still progressing as it should and looking for any abnormalities in structure or function. It also is the one where, if you so choose, you can find out the sex. Well, no surprises really given the family history (Chris has a brother and only a brother, Chris' dad is the same way, and so on), but we're having a boy. Now to pick a name. . .
Then, yesterday, as of about 3:30pm, we're now officially homeowners. We closed on the house, got our keys and entered into 30 years of debt. I'm headed out momentarily to buy the first of probably several gallons of paint to get started. I promised the dogs I'd take them with me so they could run around in their new back yard, but it's so rainy today, it's sure to be muddy, so they might just get to run around their new house instead. We've got a lot of work ahead of us, but it will feel so good to be putting work into a house that's actually ours for once. We're hoping to get things like painting and new carpet done in the next 2-3 weeks so we can get moved in by September. If we can find someone to rent our townhouse by then, we might even be able to get back a month's rent. So I think I'll post a link to the ad on the Nashvillians community. People seem to be constantly asking about places to live on there.
Phase 3, Profit!
Last Friday I met with my midwife for the first time. She gave me great confidence in the practice as well as her individual abilities. She's been delivering babies for 24 years. She started the first ever midwifery in Atlanta 24 years ago. Several years later she retired and moved to Nashville to spend more time with grandchildren and such. But she quickly found out she was not cut out for retirement and took over a position at this practice (which is 10 years old) for a lady who was on maternity leave. When she started there, they were delivering about 8 babies a month. She showed them how to grow the practice and really get established. By the time the lady returned from maternity leave, they were delivering more like 30 babies a month. She's now only working part time and my next appointment is actually with another midwife there, but she'll be my primary and most likely the one delivery our baby.
While we were there, she scheduled an ultrasound for this week (Wednesday). This was the big anatomy ultrasound where they take all the measurements and make sure growth is still progressing as it should and looking for any abnormalities in structure or function. It also is the one where, if you so choose, you can find out the sex. Well, no surprises really given the family history (Chris has a brother and only a brother, Chris' dad is the same way, and so on), but we're having a boy. Now to pick a name. . .
Then, yesterday, as of about 3:30pm, we're now officially homeowners. We closed on the house, got our keys and entered into 30 years of debt. I'm headed out momentarily to buy the first of probably several gallons of paint to get started. I promised the dogs I'd take them with me so they could run around in their new back yard, but it's so rainy today, it's sure to be muddy, so they might just get to run around their new house instead. We've got a lot of work ahead of us, but it will feel so good to be putting work into a house that's actually ours for once. We're hoping to get things like painting and new carpet done in the next 2-3 weeks so we can get moved in by September. If we can find someone to rent our townhouse by then, we might even be able to get back a month's rent. So I think I'll post a link to the ad on the Nashvillians community. People seem to be constantly asking about places to live on there.
Phase 3, Profit!
