Dragon lady revisted :(

Today Fox and I were driving in our old haunt (the suburb and hospital will be kept anonymous to protect them).. lets just say I was on Canterbury Road...

I was doing the usual "soon we will be near the place where you were born.... here it comes, this building coming up is the hospital where you were born..."

Suddenly I thought, why not go in?

Just minutes later and Fox and I were inside the hospital corridors and standing at the birth unit counter. I felt puzzled. My birth had been a haze of fear and tension (I did not have the knowledge of HypnoBirthing then), my memory couldn't work out what door led to what rooms, I just wanted to be able to point to a room and say "that is where you were born".

That's when I knew I would have to ask a question at the counter.

But at the counter I had already identified .. da da da ... THE DRAGON LADY!...

You see, when you check in at this hospital, you do not get met with a "Hi, welcome, congratulations on your pregnancy.. "

No, you get a snide, belittling lecture about 'something' and a distasteful look or two. You get treated like a fool and like a bother.

I was treated like that again today!!

As I peaked through the back of her office and meekly suggested that it would have been nice to pop my head and point out a birth room, I was told you could "only do that if you are giving birth".(and she snarled)

I didn't bother to let her know that at other hospitals - where staff are caring, nice and helpful - women and even children, are able to be invited for a quick look into the birthing unit, for one valid reason or another.

Instead I just walked away realising how much that unhappy, mean, bully affected my birthing experience. I remembered the first time I ever entered the hospital. I had announced happily to her that "I was pregnant " and she paid me out for attending the hospital so early in my pregnancy. I  received extremely inaccurate information about HypnoBirthing from the midwives at that same hospital and it actually deterred me from utilising the excellent method.

As we drove away I told Fox that "next time we will sneak in the other side of the hospital corridors and have a peak at the room where we had our first ever breastfeeding experience".

He smiled happily.

Nat :)

Channel 10 News stole my passion!!!

(now that I have sneakingly grabbed your attention, I can mention that this is tongue in cheek only!)

For 6 months I have focused on one single and humble passion :

"to ensure that all my local people;

1. Know about HypnoBirthing, and
2. Know it has some good value and is an option for their birth preparation"

Now, with one foul swoop, my passion has been stolen from me!

The news is out!

(you have watched the video clip this blog refers to? http://ten.com.au/news.htm?movideo_m=170888 )

But does this leave me passionless and defeated?

NO I say! Now I realise my passion is to ensure that people continue to hear about it, again and again, until it becomes an even better understood option and an option that will be UTILISED!

But first, I really must debunk a myth from the news report... I really don't think it is very realistic to think that when HypnoBirthing women birth "they look like they are asleep", I would have to share my personal opinion on this one, I would have to say that -

They look like women BIRTHING!!!

(no big surprises there),

Good on you channel ten for stealing my passion AND for being typically unrealistic as all good media is :)

Accuracies in the article? Surprisingly quite a few! Women really do birth calm and relaxed for the most part, many women really do find birth can be surprisingly enjoyable and YES, men do really sit around on beanbags seemingly sleeping (well they are supposed to be 'visualising' - but their lives are pretty stressful looking after their pregnant partners so they sometimes take a nap!).

Thanks for reading my blog :)

Natalie Joy Meade

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http://www.decisivefocus.com/

Energies of the cosmos?!?!

For any of you that believe in fate, divine intervention or 'cosmic energies' you will be nodding knowingly at this weird incident...

About 2 yrs after the birth of my son (Fox) my old security boss rang me and begged me to work as a security at the airport, they needed women to scan women with the increased security levels we experienced a few years ago.

I was tempted (security work can have its ways of paying well and there are tons of hours, plus - it is fun work), yet at the same time I felt worried that the work would consume me.
I decided to accept and do a few weeks work ... I went to read out my license details to get a bit of paper work to ensure they were up to new standards when I was shocked to find it had expired.  I went to the police site search engine and checked the license number to make sure,  it told me "this security number is unlicensed". It had expired ages ago! I realised I must have gotten a five year DRIVER license and confused them. I had to tell my old boss and say no to his offer.
I felt a little sad not being able to do security, it was always a cool job I treated almost as a hobbie! Over the years have contemplated getting a license and doing a couple of shifts for fun and amusement.

TODAY I saw a little blue card peeping over the top of a flap in my diary case, I pulled it out and thought "that's a pretty bad picture", next my eyes read "Security Industry License" "Mar 12", then "expiry date 14 mar 2012".

I have been licensed for 5 years! it expired 2 days ago and popped up out of no-where.

I can safely say that IF I had of done some security work, I would never have followed my dreams and passions to become a Hypnotherapist or HypnoBirthing Practitioner, I would have been run off my feet and too limited for time and energy to achieve ANYTHING!

I am sooooo glad that license went missing :)

(though I kind of feel sad too)

I guess life is all about letting go and then reaching out for something new.

In this case I had no choice about letting go, but I am glad it happened.

Natalie :)


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