u/thecloudysky999

I have Crohn’s disease and did a home birth despite it making me high risk apparently. My midwife didn’t seem phased by it. I read a post by a woman asking about home birth in r/crohnsdisease, and all the comments were saying how dangerous it is. 19 months later me and baby are doing great, but I’m just worried again. I’m just wondering because I want a second baby soon, but for some reason I’m scared to try home birth again. It’s not the pain I’m worried about, more so something going wrong since I have Crohn’s. I wonder if I just “got lucky” this first time.

I also don’t really care for any of the home birth midwives in my area, I didn’t like the one I had went with last time too much for different reasons but she got the job done which is all I cared about at the time.

So me, my husband, and our son have been going to a Greek Orthodox Church in our area for about 3-4 years now. We all were received as a family into the church after a few years as catechumen.

There is only a small portions of converts at our church as it is mostly all Greek people. We aren’t Greek, and we struggle to feel integrated into the community there. We do enjoy talking with the other converts there, but we are really the only ones in the age group that have a young child, so it seems like sometimes it’s hard to click with or do things outside of church as a spiritual family together since we are at different stages in live.

We recently found out there’s an OCA very close to us and we want to try going. My husband went to a vespers service there recently and instantly felt at home. There’s a lot of converts there, and lots of people around our age with children around our son’s age. Their liturgy also starts a bit earlier, so it works even better with our son’s nap schedule.

We sent an email to our priest at the Greek church asking for his blessing to start attending this OCA more regularly. He’s nearly impossible to speak to in person as he is so busy (there is no deacon). We emailed him awhile ago and haven’t heard back. We are wondering if we should wait to switch until we hear back from him? We don’t want to seem flippant and rude, and we just want to be sure that we do everything properly instead of coming across as church shopping?

I’m 26 and recently got new dental insurance this year. I had seen the same dentist since I was a toddler until I was like 23, he had pointed out I had a cross bite when I was a child but never said I needed to do anything about it. These past 2 years I’ve seen various dentist since my insurance changed a lot, none mentioned the cross bite as an issue. I just saw a new dentist recently who referred me to an orthodontist because of it.

My question is can a cross bite just be left alone? Is that why no dentist has ever said anything about it?

Also my current insurance doesn’t cover orthodontics at all, so if I can just leave it alone that would be nice financially