Thank you Womama

Yesterday a special package arrived for me (I would have got it earlier but it went to Japan and then had to come all the way back!). It was from Womama.

They make beautiful maternity wear and underwear here in NZ and also sell overseas too. I have 3 bras and a feeding top of theirs already. All but one bra (the one I was wearing) got left behind in our rush to leave our house after the earthquake and on day 3 of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power plant. 2 weeks later we still couldn't go home and I was still living in my 1 bra. 

The lovely people at Womama heard about my lack of suitable underwear and came to the rescue. Now I am no longer suffering from an underwear shortage and even have a lovely birthing wrap to wear when Maru chan arrives! 

So if you are looking for some lovely maternity underwear that is high quality, comfortable and looks beautiful too, please check out their website. I think they are even having a sale at the moment, too! I was a big fan even before the earthquake happened, but now even more so.

On another topic, I have just come back from my second appointment here in Westport with a midwife. Not the same one as last week, but a fabulous woman who I would love to have as my lead maternity carer for  Maru chan if I was staying here in this town for the birth. 

She listened to Maru chan's heart beat and was concerned that it was very fast, over 200 and not coming down and staying down. So she put me on the fetal heart beat monitor thingee for about 10 minutes and watched as Maru's heart rate went up and down a lot. She then faxed it off to a obstetrician at the big hospital an hour from here. The dr came back and said it was excellent and nothing to worry about as the heart rate was going up and down and combined with a lot of movement means that Maru is very active and healthy. I also have low blood pressure, good blood test results, no temperature etc. So I was very impressed with her actions, even though it turned out to be nothing that she took the time to make sure that everything was actually fine and I felt well taken care of. 

DH has had his work interrupted by the aftershocks in Iwaki and even been sent home early from work yesterday probably due to there being no internet. He got home to find the water was off again. 

The government has raised the level of the nuclear disaster to 7 - equal to that of Chernobyl, though experts are saying they are completely different situations and only 1/10 of the radiation of Chernobyl has been released/has escaped. I am glad we were extremely cautious in our reaction to the situation and I am far away from the place as this situation obviously existed long before they had analysed the data and re-evaluated the situation.