5 Things to Look Forward to in 2011
Filed under: General Health
Eric wrote a great piece recent on the 17 Reasons He’s Excited for 2011, and it inspired me to write a similar piece of my own.
I had a lot of incredible experiences in 2010: we got a puppy, my wife got accepted into her desired residency in our home state of Maine, I got accepted into the University of Maine Master’s program and Dietetic Internship, I got to work at Alternity Healthcare, we moved home to Maine, my best friend returned from Afghanistan, and so much more.
In 2011 I have much to look forward to, and here are 5 of my favorite ones:
1. Having a baby girl!
My wife and I are expecting a baby girl on May 6th, 2011. We are incredibly excited, and that excitement certainly seems to be rising as we get closer and closer to her due date. There is much to learn and prepare for!
2. Learning more about the birth experience.
I never in my life thought I would say that, but lately my wife and I have been reading and learning a lot about the whole birth experience. I always pictured birth as how you see it in the movies or on tv – loud, painful and relieved when it is all over.
We have recently watched the Business of Being Born, and I am in the process of reading Your Best Birth, while she reads Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth. These resources have opened our eyes to the mess our medical system has made of the process of childbirth. How you see it on tv is NOT how it has to be.
We are learning that we can choose the birth experience we want, whatever that may be. But the the choice is ours. This is an area that I look forward to learning so much more about, and I am sure will learn the most as we go through the actual experience.
3. My Dietetic Internship.
My Dietetic Internship begins in May, and is the journey I have to undertake to become a Registered Dietitian. Clinical dietetics is also an area that I am woefully lacking, as I have never worked in a hospital in that capacity. I look forward to expanding my skill set and finally becoming a RD.
4. Continued growth of BrianStPierreTraining.com.
This website has grown by leaps and bounds each year, and I learn just as much from writing about topics as any of you doing by reading about them. This blog has been one of my greatest accomplishments. Here are my year end statistics:
- 117,263 unique visitors
- 321,878 visits
- 961,010 page views
This is an increase in 40,000 unique visitors, 150,000 visits, and 460,000 page views over 2009! Thank you all for continuing to read my site and make it a success!
On top of that there will be some continual improvements on the site in the very near future. I will have a free newsletter set up very shortly that I think you will all love. As well the site will be moving to bspnutrition.com at some point as well. It is a much more user-friendly URL, and I think gives a more accurate representation of my site. These are just a few of the improvements I have planned for 2011!
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
Yeah, this is pretty much going to kick ass. I would even bet that just like Return of the King, this final chapter in the will win some much-deserved awards in recognition of the excellence of the entire series.
I am sure there are many more things I could write about, like writing more articles, potential new projects and the like, but I wanted to keep it simple.
Again, this site would not be possible without you my readers, so please let me know what you would like to see more of in 2011.
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Posted on January 4th, 2011 by Brian St. Pierre
5 Comments
January 4th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Brian – it’s great that you’re learning about to make your birth experience something to look forward to. We took a doula-led birth class that relied heavily on Ina May’s past writing, and it was a huge benefit for our second birth. We went from an incredibly frustrating hospital experience for our first daughter to an amazing homebirth for our second. I think knowing as much as we did made a big difference, both in our confidence and in my wife’s ability to perform (because it IS a physical challenge).
BTW, my wife got a lot out of the book “Birthing from Within” and has recommended it to every expecting mother.
January 4th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
OB/GYN is one of the few medical specialties where MD’s get sued successfully despite not making any medical mistakes. Which makes for a specialty built around defensive medicine. In which no one wins.
Example:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/RHNsprsum02.htm
If you practice OB/GYN in Illinois or Florida the average cost of malpractice insurance is over $140,000 a year.
January 4th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
PBrazelton,
We are also getting a doula, and I will pass on that book recommendation to my wife. Thanks.
Jeremiah,
$140,000! That is insane. It is a serious problem that is for sure, and something needs to change.
January 5th, 2011 at 12:50 am
Great news all around! Congrats on the child! Congrats on the site! And, thank you for it. I know I find myself linking others to it very often.
Also, great to hear the url change. :-].
January 9th, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Congratulations on the baby, and keep up the great work in 2011. This is one of my favorite blogs.