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I was reading a post on Facebook recently about natural childbirth and how today the process has been turned into an almost traumatic ordeal. Althou...]]>

I was reading a post on Facebook recently about natural childbirth and how today the process has been turned into an almost traumatic ordeal. Although I realize that many c-sections could possibly be avoided and that what is a beautiful, natural process has been turned into a medical event, I also appreciate the blessings that come from modern medicine.

All three of my kids were born by c-section. My first was 17 days over due and I was induced on a Friday and then sent home and on Monday induced for over 17 hours and didn't even dilate to 1. That was 22 years ago and they were confused as to why that was happening as he wouldn't even drop. So they did an xray (Yes! Gasp..an xray..keep in mind it was 22 years ago). They determined that he was 9 pounds 6 ounces, give or take a pound. The problem was that the inside of my pelvic bone was too narrow to give birth to any baby who was over 4 pounds.

The c-section wasn't fun, but the result was a beautiful, 9 pound 14 ounce baby boy. The day we were to leave the hospital two nurses came into the room with tears in their eyes. They told me that they had to keep the baby because lab results showed that I had group B strep.

They explained that it is a vaginal infection that pregnant women sometimes get and for some reason it seems to run in patterns where they see a lot of it. They went on to explain that if the baby got it they would have swelling of the brain and it generally wasn't even caught before it did massive brain damage or the baby died due to the ability of the newborn's skull to expand because of the soft spot. They further informed me that in the last month they had four newborns die of this and one that had severe brain damage.

They did a UA on my newborn and he tested positive for the anti-body. They explained that they can get a false positive, but because of that they had to do a spinal tap on him, put him on IV antibiotics and keep him until the spinal tap results came back. If positive they would have to keep him for up to 14 days. Oh, and the type of antibiotics they would have to put him on could cause liver damage and hearing loss.

I cried when the Dr. told me after 3 days that he did not test positive and could be taken off of the antibiotics. What did the Dr think saved him from getting this infection even though he was 17 days over due and induced twice for an extended time period? The c-section! He said that even though I was induced, my water never broke and had that happened, my son would have been exposed to that for all those hours. Then, had he started to "go down the shoot" (as my then husband who is a veterinarian called it), he would have had great difficulty getting into the birth canal and would have possibly been stuck there and they would have had to use suction. All that time he would have been exposed even longer to the bacteria.

On August 22nd my son turned 22. He is a senior at MIT in Cambridge, majoring in aerospace engineering, otherwise known as a rocket scientist. LOL... He is also the starting linebacker and co-captain of the MIT Fighting Engineers Football team. Today is the first game of his senior year.

Do I wish I could have had a beautiful, peaceful birth? Sure. Do I think it would have been cool to have one of those water births? Sure, ok. I've often been asked if I feel like I was cheated because I had c-sections and never had a "real" birth. I'm happy to say that I don't miss having not experienced that. All I have to do is look at my son and anything we went through during that time was nothing but a blessing.

]]> http://www.buzzweaver.com/Kimberanne/blog/blessings-come-in-unexpected-ways/ Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:38:24 +0000 Kimberanne Weaver http://www.buzzweaver.com/Kimberanne/blog/tales-from-mercury-retrograde/
On August 3rd, 2011 Mercury officially entered its retrograde period that would last until August 26th. In the grand scheme of things this may not seem all that long, but there is a time period known as the shadow that starts about weeks before and extends two weeks after this time frame.

On July 29th I was informed by KEEN, a company who I have an affiliate marketing agreement with, that the transactions generated by my ads were "suspicious". Because of this they decided to just delete $1,300 in commissions that I rightfully earned for the month of July. *POOF*... GONE... NO MORE.. So Sorry..

I contacted Commission Junction, the company that manages the partnership and was told that it didn't look like I had done anything fraudulent on my end. Ummm.. no.. I haven't.

I've exchanged numerous emails with KEEN's affiliate contact, Steven Chang and received several explanations as to why they have chosen to take this action. At first I was told that my links didn't work. When I checked the links they changed their story and said that they never said they were broken, but then asked me for screen shots. I sent the screen shots only to be told that the screen shots didn't really tell them anything.

I asked for further clarification and was told that of the customers that completed the transactions, only 5% came back and spent more money. Since the terms of the promotion from an affiliate stand point were that they had to spend "any amount of money", I didn't understand why this was a disqualifying issue.

I then received another email explaining that although the customers completed the transactions that were required for me to earn my affiliate commission, the customers had "suspicious" email accounts. I'm not sure what that means or how they would determine that an account was "suspicious".

Knowing how this promotion works I asked how that would matter since each person had to enter a credit or debit card to take advantage of the promotion. I asked if they shared an IP address and if so, if they could share those with me.

The next email explained that the accounts used pre-paid credit cards and the billing address for the cards didn't match the state that the IP address was from. So, do prepaid credit cards HAVE billing addresses?? Also, the IP address for an email account can vary depending on what mail service you use and isn't always dependent upon the state you live in.]]> http://www.buzzweaver.com/Kimberanne/blog/tales-from-mercury-retrograde/ Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:05:50 +0000 Kimberanne Weaver http://www.buzzweaver.com/Kimberanne/blog/spiritually-advanced-maybe-not-what-you-think/
What is interesting about this is a couple of things. The first is that I haven't been an active reader on KEEN for well over a year, and closer to two years. The second is that one of the reasons I left Blog Talk Radio in the first place over a year ago was because of the negative energy people who seem to stalk the site and who find pleasure in trying to discredit intuitives. The very sad thing about this is that the majority of the people who are guilty of this are actually readers or hosts of shows themselves.

Being an empath this negative type of energy is something that I can be especially sensitive to and it can throw off my concentration and enthusiasm. A friend of mine who was in the show chatroom sent me a private message, telling me to shake it off and ignore the trolls. Very good advice and one that I will be specifically working on with deliberate intention.

Immediately following the call another caller was welcomed onto the show with us and a brief discussion ensued about the troll that had just called. It is my belief that there are a lot of people out there who call themselves psychics, spiritual, lightworkers, or what have you that aren't on a truly spiritual path. The caller was a great example of this. This type of behavior only hurts the metaphysical world and the work that many of us dedicate our lives to.

I'm sure that you have heard this rant before from others, but I would like to introduce a new twist to this. When someone behaves in the manner that the troll caller did, its easy for everyone, including myself, to say that they must not be very spiritually advanced. Well, I propose that we maybe look at this in another way. Perhaps they are even more "advanced" along their path that any of us are. Perhaps they chose to come back into this life to be a bad example of how to behave and they made that choice knowing that this life wouldn't be as easy for them. They would always be filled with anger, resentment, and a bitter heart that would lead them to attack others. Through their actions however they provide others with the opportunity to evaluate how they behave and to solidify what they believe to be behavior that is honorable to them.

So, although trolls aren't any fun, we can turn this around and choose to thank their higher selves for providing us with a good example of what a bad example of behavior is!]]> http://www.buzzweaver.com/Kimberanne/blog/spiritually-advanced-maybe-not-what-you-think/ Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:59:27 +0000 Kimberanne Weaver