heartbeats and logic boards oh my

So on Thursday I heard the heart beat for the first time, 160 beats a minute! Pretty incredible to hear that coming out of my belly, very bizarre. That same day I found out that the logic board of my Mac that I've had for 4 years is dead. There is no logic to anything really.

Today we went to an orientation at the Brooklyn Birthing Center, the only freestanding birthing center in all of New York State and it's 2 small rooms with a much smaller bathroom and tub then I would have expected. The group of people at the orientation was truly bizarre from a know it all Orthodox punk who couldn't have been more than 20 years old who answered his cellphone as the midwife was answering his question about herbs which he claimed to know more about than her, to the truly bizarre 35 year old woman who was obsessed with tearing and with the size of her pelvis. One woman almost threw up during the orientation and another got defensive because she works for the health insurance industry.

When I asked my midwife about whether I would be allowed to eat and drink during labor she literally laughed in my face and said if I was thinking about food than obviously I wasnt in labor. At the birthing center they made a big point of showing off the tiny kitchen and saying that everyone's allowed to eat or drink whatever they want during labor. I found the space to be a little clausterphobic with no windows but that could also be because we all piled in together and the hallways were cramped. The tub was a lot smaller and less inviting than I had imagained, and the midwife doing the tour recently had knee replacement surgery and is no longer able to bend down and assist in a water birth.

I guess the next step is to visit the hospital and see how it feels in comparison. Mr. T felt very good about us because there was someone at the orientation who is at 37 weeks, he couldn't believe how far above the curve we were.

I found out last week that I have been counting wrong, not too surprising! i still don't get it but apparently i'm starting week 11 when I thought i was starting week 12, oops. It's all so arbitrary.

I have to figure out if it makes sense to fix the logic board or buy a new computer and if a new one whether i get another desktop or if I graduate to a more expensive but spiffier laptop. Decisions, decisions.