It's hard not to worry, especially when you've got a little one growing inside you. I worry about the stuff you'd expect--if I'm eating enough, and enough of the right things, if I'll be a good mom once the baby is born, if I'll be able to balance my current responsibilities on top of all that's ahead once I become a full-time mom.
But over the past couple of days I've started worrying about radiation. Not long after we realized the situation in Fukushima was serious, we started buying bottled water. We still use filtered tap water for cooking, but we only drink bottled water. And since I've been pregnant, I often drink four liters of water a day!
That measure alone subsided a lot of my worries. I tried not to be too concerned about if the food I was buying was contaminated. I buy a lot of things from Costco, which are imported, anyway, so I figured it shouldn't be too big of a deal if some of the things I buy were grown locally, even a little north of here. After all, we live far enough away from the plant, right?
Well, it seems that we're not far enough. Just last month, water contamination was found in the city next to ours (http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/06/water-contamination-reached-west-kanagawa/). My basic method for dealing with this stuff has been to be slightly informed, but not obsess over it. I knew that if I got too concerned, it'd be hard to stay, like these women have found: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120323f2.html#.UAqyB45MbHN
Still, I'm not concerned enough to pack up and leave, nor am I going to go to any great lengths to import all of our food or bathe in bottled water or anything extreme like that. Yet at the same time, all of this is still a concern. I think I'd be foolish to pretend it wasn't.
I'm trying not to worry. I'm already scared enough about labor and delivery, not to mention motherhood! No matter what, the future is in God's hands, not mine. But I hope that I can make good decisions with the knowledge I have, and be a good wife and mother.
1 comment:
You are a good wife and you will be a wonderful mother! once you become a mother there are so many things that will "worry" you about the precious one God is blessing with, it seems to be a part of being a mother :-) but as you said God is in control and HE gives us what we need to do the most amazing job in the world! Hang in there and keep doing what you are doing being sensible in keeping an eye on the things you eat! love you! Janice
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