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Well, who'd've thought it - another update. And again not necessarily sprog-related. Since my first pregnancy, I've been drifting more and more away from the New Age spectrum (energy healing, reiki) towards skepticism. I've subscribed to the Randi forums, am reading skeptical blogs, and my reading material is mostly non-fiction, science, psychology, history - no longer reiki, massage, paranormal. It has been a long slow process. I'm glad I got an inside view of complementary medicine. Although I'm now deeply sceptical of energy, qi, and especially of quantum explanations for them, there's another energy in CAM that I still deeply value: The healing energy of the interaction between a warm, compassionate listener and a client/patient/co-traveller on life's journey. What got me through the three years of waiting for Mouse was less the medical care I received (although it was, in hindsight, perfectly adequate - more on that in a later entry). It was the feeling of being heard, vindicated, held and nourished by the complementary practitioners I visited regularly.