A visit to the midwife’s office

So, today was the day of the first scheduled visit to the midwife’s office. Our midwife is a lovely Dutch lady, can not remember her name at this present moment, but she sat us down in her office and we got to answer a whole array of different questions about illness in the family, allergies, religion, but the most interesting of all was when she asked us if we had a history of glue-sniffing and/or street drugs.

It was obvious that she was uncomfortable with asking these questions, but I guess it is just protocol. She also asked us if we felt safe around each other or if there was any domestic abuse involved. Me and Shaena just laughed it off, but sadly there are probably people who are not so lucky and in a similar situation as us that say ‘yes’ to these questions. Imagine a glue-sniffing young mother to be who’s suffering from spousal abuse. Scary!

Anyway, everything went really well and Shaena is healthy as a horse and we also found out that we will be eligible for a second scan. Yay! From what I hear that is the really cool scan when the baby is more developed and you can see both facial movements and thumb-sucking. I am very much looking forward to that!

What else is new? Well, after the midwife appointment we walked over to the yarn shop and Shaena got her yarn and needles so that she can learn how to knit. Now she is sitting in the couch, learning how to knit with a video tutorial on repeat: ”Again, take the yarn, wrap it around, turn it around… get in to it, practice”.

I, on the other hand, have started my new book that Santa gave me. “Heroin Diaries” by Nikki Sixx. It is basically a collection of his diary notes and comments by relatives and friends and band members of Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe, Another tragic sad but true autobiography about a rockstar at his very worst, totally strung out on coke and heroin for a whole year.

Double-scary!