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Last night I got absolutely F-all done. I was going to go get a replacement phone, but wanted to the mancreature to come with me as I really think we should get on a family plan to save a bit. The mancreature didn't sleep well the night before so he was a grumble butt and toddled off to bed by 6PM and slept through the whole night- which meant that I couldn't get the phone stuff sorted out. I'm going stir crazy without a phone, but if we potentially sign up for another contract (we have both happily long  passed our contract date and were not wanting to get tied down again) I want to make sure it's what will work for us for the next two years, and have enough benefit to make it worth giving up the freedom to change companies at any time. We need to start looking at ways to tighten the budget before it become nessisary so it hopefully won't ever be urgent, or a crisis. I don't like having to scramble, especially not when it can be avoided with planning. So I did make some super quickie dinner as I'm learning to listen to what my body wants and when it wants it. Other than that  all that was accomplished last night was a little light reading, sleeping and mega snuggles.

I did find some more interesting information on historical birthing practices, and some images of birthing chairs. I may not get a chance to use one for the birth, but I want one!!
Here's an interesting synopsis of prevailing attitudes and practices: http://www.elenagreene.com/childbirth.html 
An interesting write up on women in medicine, how it applied to them, to what degree women were allowed to practice, what medical texts might have been available to them and more- I'm loving checking out all the bibliographies: http://www.gallowglass.org/jadwiga/herbs/WomenMed.html