Photo post - what's in my birth kit?

I know some of you are dying to know what I have in my birth kit.

Pretty simple huh. Maybe I should do a video because I can only find American videos.

Some of these things do not apply, but I have a similar set up. I will get photos up soon!

So many things to plan for!

It is so hard to conceptualise how to make my dream a reality. I'm only one person, and yet I want to take midwifery to the masses? What kind of crazy am I?

The enthusiastic crazy! The logical, maybe I missed my calling to go into logistics, type. The "I've got the whole of 2012 to think this over" kind.

On the other hand, I see so many of my friends have poor experiences with their pregnancy and birth, in ways that I don't see when friends birth with a known midwife. Or even when they have births that they want, rather than the supposedly unrealistic expectation that birth shouldn't suck.

Today's excitement is brought to you by boxes, tape guns and stinky pens because - we've started packing our house up to move. Movers are here on Monday. So in order to procrastinate best, I've made a list of things to do:

• Enrol in MidPLUS for my continuing professional development now that I'm a graduand and a registered midwife
• Buy scales for weighing babies on
• Look at becoming a childbirth educator
• Investigate the options already available in my new town
• Buy an overlocker Check that anyone is reading this blog
• Look at and commit to some courses for the year

And in the meantime, I'm going to go pack at least one room today.

Pondering my future

I got the most amazing and boring "automatically generated" email the other day.

The one that said I am now finished my Bachelor of Midwifery at the University of South Australia.

That makes me a graduand until 30 March 2012 when I become a graduate.

My registration will hopefully be processed this week - that's all I want for Solstice!