A Sign of the Times

Its is interesting how "mainstream" being a Single Mom by Choice is becoming.

Yesterday I met up with a cousin visiting from out of state. It was great seeing him and he commented on how wonderful it was that I made the plunge into becoming a SMC. As he said a lot of women may think about it, but actually doing it is a whole other thing.

Then a little while ago I was at the grocery store and ran into a single girl I have met before socially a couple of times - mid-30's I would guess. We got talking and she saw the obvious belly and was surprised. I told her that I decided to become a single Mom.

She was so happy for me and immediately said that she too was thinking about it. That made me realize that this is indeed becoming very mainstream. She is from a very conservative culture and despite that she said her Mom was encouraging her!

Her only reluctance was that she was alone  in the city with no family support locally so was a bit worried about that aspect of it.

We talked a bit more about it and I told her my only advice, one I wished someone had given me, was to get herself checked out to see where she stands fertility-wise and if something she wants to do, not to wait too long.

Next week is my now-biweekly MFM visit.

Hopefully Beanie is putting on weight. I have not really put on much the last 2 weeks, so not sure if she has.  I hope so!

I am trying out the local MFM place this time, since the visits will now become much more frequent and I don't want to keep taking time off to drive over an hour one way to the guy in the city.

I will try them out and see what detailed report they provide. If its not up to snuff shall go back to city guy. Fact is that should there be a problem with the pregnancy, my OB will be using the local MFM folks since they are assigned to the hospital where I will be delivering, so it is better of I can use the next few weeks to make them familiar with my case.

Also, I managed to contact the c-section scheduling person and she said that after I meet the OB week after next and if I want to push my c-sec date out, they will accommodate me. That was good. I still have the earlier date booked.