I've been online a lot recently. Today it is to deal with some credit card fraud (argh) but mostly it has been at night while unable to sleep. I don't think the fraud and not sleeping are related, but now that I see them together in writing I think there could be a connection.

I'm eight and a half weeks along today (and expecting this little one to join us by early November) and haven't slept well in four nights, though John consistently sleeps through the night now. (If he can't have orderly naps, at least he can have orderly nights). Everything seems exactly like last time so far - no sickness and a bit of tiredness but nothing extreme. I'm taking a cake decorating class and the smell of frosting is a bit gross to me, but at least that means I don't have any desire to eat the cake afterwards :-).

I'm thinking about changing midwives this time, so that's what is on my mind now that I'm home from CA. We talked with one yesterday who is super-experienced (she's been at over 1000 births) but who is a bit of a 1970s-style "free-spirit". We're sorting through what criteria to use in evaluation. She teaches in local midwifery programs and trained some of the midwives in the group I went to last time. She practices with a second midwife (who wasn't there yesterday) who seems, from her background, to be a little more "normal".