acupuncture trial

Rose is having a week of melt-downs. Music class ended early with me getting a waterbottle slammed into my teeth, yesterday she spent a good five minutes crying on the front step because she didn;t want to walk up and today, at Please Touch, she lay on the floor screaming becaue she didn;t want an apple. I think the answer is more food. All these melt downs seem to happen mid-morning. She wakes up and has a bottle and then very little breakfast. By 10.00am she needs a substantial snack, which in the last week we haven;t been having. My plan is to get more breakfast in the little madame and hopefully we can avoid apples being flung across the floor of the Please Touch Museum.

I had my first taste of acupuncture today. The right side of my bottom is taking the brunt of the baby and has been painful for months now. In the last couple of weeks, I've had some stop and gather moments with pain shooting down my leg. I learned the acupuncture cost $15 and decided to give it a go. It was a very pleasant experience, once you get past the idea of twenty small needles sticking in your limbs, face and head. It is a communal approach to alternative medicine with everyone needled and reclining in chairs in the same room. The lights are low and the air conditioning buzzes. I was encouraged to stay as long as I wanted and make eye contact with a member of staff when I felt "done". A couple of the needles hurt as they went in, but the pain disappeared just as quickly. I was able to close my eyes and almost relax - I found it a little hard to completely give in due to the tiny needles and the two and a half hour nap I had taken two hours before. The woman next to me was snoring. Four hours later and I am pain free. We will see if that is still the case in the morning. Does it really work or is it all in my head?