So I missed two days.  Friday was a really big day of running from one thing to another .  I went out to Campanas in the morning to visit the women who I am going to support in birth.  I found out one of them actually had her baby a few days earlier.  They decided to give her a Caesarean as she had previously had one and she had to go to Piura so she didn’t bother calling me.  While I wouldn’t have been able to go with her as I don’t have a relationship with the hospital there and there is not much doulas can really do during Caesareans I told her I still would’ve liked to know.  I am very disappointed for her and for me too.  That’s the second birth I was supposed to support that ended up having a Caesarean in Piura.  While the first had pre-eclampsia so it was probably needed I think this birth wasn’t.  Vaginal Births after Caesareans are totally possible and happen all the time.  Anyway, we had a bit of chat about and she seems okay about it but she’s uncomfortable.  The baby is so cute so it was nice to spend some time there.  I am hoping the next ones won’t be Caesarean, one woman in particular is really keen for a vaginal birth.  I had a class after that which was a disaster and then our 5 year old niece was here for the night so we had to look after her which is a lot of energy. When she finally went down we left the sleeping children and headed to a friend’s place for a few drinks.  It turned into a bit of a late night.  Well just before one but that’s really late for us these days.

Then yesterday and today we were in Piura all day.  Yesterday we had a 15th birthday party to go to for one of our nieces (daughter of a cousin but in Peru that makes her a niece).  In Peru 15th are a really big deal.  They don’t have formals at the school like we do so this is the opportunity to get really dressed up etc etc.  These parties cost a fortune for the parents but they are very important especially for the girls.  We had a nice time catching up with family who live in Piura who we don’t see that much. I also went out with one of my sister in laws for a drink in the evening.  I am not a huge fan of Piura these days, as I have said, but it does have a pretty nice happening vibe at night and some cool places to go. Reminded me of all the reasons I loved it when I was first here and went out at night a lot.  Stupidly it became another later night than I am used to.

Then today was Father’s Day here so we spent the day with Martin’s brother and 4 of his kids.  Martin’s brother is building a house so we spent the day on his construction site.  Lucky there is some grassy areas too where we could sit and the kids could run around. Nina really loves her cousins.  I will be sad when she has to say goodbye to them.  It was pretty sunny and dusty though and keeping Nina off the construction stuff was tiring.

So the next topic is “books that have influenced me greatly”.  I logged on to write about it but I just decided not to. I think that is a topic that requires a bit of thought and effort and right now I am just too tired.