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	Age: 25 Country: USA Province/region: AZ City: Tempe Partner: married Children: Yes, 1 Pregnant: Not anymore Occupation: makeup artist
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28-4-2009 - 36 weeks & miserable

My mood while writing this blog:
bummed out

So every thing is kinda going to shit now.

In the last few days I've had terrible tooth ache, its killing me and making me utterly miserable, i've had trouble with it before and i really should have had it pulled but put it off.

So even though i had my heart set on a home birth with a lovely midwife present its starting to look like i'm gonna have to go to hospital.

I need to get my tooth pulled tomorrow, before i try and rip it out myself! So thats gonna cost a few hundred, as I'm still uninsured. I have been trying to convince myself we could afford this home birth but we really can't, we need to pay the midwife $1800, which doesn't seem a lot but we're really struggling with cash and the hospital birth is totally covered by the state insurance i was accepted for.

It seems like i have this dream of giving birth at home, but there's one thing thats stopping me ' money'

which seems so wrong but what can i do?

I guess i'm gonna just have to ride out as much of the labor as i can at home and then just go to the hospital and get it over and done with, if i grit my teeth and make sure my DH sticks by my side and stops them from filling me with drugs, then i'll be home before i know it with my beautiful baby boy.

I'm just totally bummed out, had my heart set on an intimate, loving, private labor.

Why can't we get a break? I'm starting to wish i hadn't even heard the word homebirth cause then i'd be none the wiser.

3 Comments on 36 weeks & miserable

Heaven - Wednesday, 29 Apr
I don't mean to put on more bad news but I don't think they will pull your tooth while pregnant. At least, I know some dentist don't see pregnant women. I tried to go and they turned me away. I hope you feel better soon and find a dentist that does. Of course you would'nt have any meds and no xray. good luck

Isaacsmom - Tuesday, 28 Apr
just think it will all be over soon,sonner than u think.

babybehappy - Tuesday, 28 Apr
I know how you feel about the home birth. That's what we wanted with our first. We couldn't really afford it but I thought, you can't put a price on a precious memory like that. So we had the midwife charge our creditcard. Turns out that I HAD to go to the hospital and have a c-section but at least I tried to make it the experience we wanted. It took us about 6 months to pay it off and it would have been totally worth it. But there was no way of knowing that my son's head was too big for my pelvis. I hope everything works out for you!! You're so close to meeting you baby!! :)

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