hello
I'm really upset and looking for a bit of moral support! i'm 5 days overdue with my first baby and my doula, who is really important to me, just rang to say she's having a marital crisis and is going up to yorkshire to be with her parents for the next couple of days.
she was really, really apologetic and I was really calm and sympathetic at the time but when i got off the phone I just burst into tears.
She was going to be my main birth partner, with my husband in more of a back up role and I know she would have been (hopefully still will be) brilliant. she was the main reason i was feeling confident about childbirth.
Ironically, this morning I went for acupuncture to try and help move the baby along - now i'm wanting to hold it up until the doula gets back! I feel like I should have reverse acupunture to keep him/her in there!
the doula says she's coming home on Monday night but I can't help feeling that might not happen...so I am left high and dry.
I feel really upset as she was very important to me and my feelings about giving birth.
my husband is being really lovely and saying he can try and be like a doula but it's not what either of us planned. I've got to get my head round that possibility though..