{"id":311,"date":"2007-05-13T19:45:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T01:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippiemommy.com\/2007\/05\/13\/check-with-your-doctor\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T19:45:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T01:45:56","slug":"check-with-your-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippiemommy.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Check with your doctor&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=hippiemommy-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0553381156&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week I have been struck by how (unknowingly) dependent I have been on the opinions of my care providers.  I like to think of myself as a pretty independent woman, and yet I&#8217;ve noticed that I keep thinking that I need to check with my midwife on things I already know.<\/p>\n<p>My example for this week:<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentlechristianmothers.com\/mb\/\" target=\"_blank\">GCM<\/a> we are blessed with a wonderful retired midwife whose opinion I trust more than any doctor.  She recommends a few supplements from time to time, and I decided to pick them up after she made some personal recommendations to me.  I noticed that my first instinct was to jot down a note to ask my midwife if she approved.  The more I thought about it, the more odd that I realized my thinking was.  I knew my midwife would leave it up to me &#8211; she&#8217;s not the type to force her opinion.  She will give me her thoughts if I ask for them, but it is not that I need her <em><strong>permission<\/strong><\/em> to do something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I got into a habit of not thinking for myself, because that is one of the last ways that I&#8217;d ever want to be described.   It has happened though.  Somehow I lost trust in myself and decided that I needed validation from &#8220;experts&#8221;. When I ask questions, I usually get responses that I already know, and yet I somehow have been desiring the comfort that comes from hearing my own thoughts coming at me from a more respected source.  How bizarre!<\/p>\n<p>Really&#8230; there is something very wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have been struck by how (unknowingly) dependent I have been on the opinions of my care providers. 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