So you are going to be staying in Newton Abbott that is great. That is about a half hour from me as I live in Brixham....it will be nice to have someone from UKY so close.
Josy
That's great! Maybe we'll have to have tea someday! (Feel free to add me on facebook, but beware- I am photo happy!) We really don't know where we want to end up long term, but everything I've read/found so far about the Devon area makes me happy! We will probably be in Newton Abbott for a few years while we explore! My husband is a big canoeist (He and his father run the Yukon1000 in Canada.) and we are excited to be near real water! Right now there are almost no places to get wet, and its frozen or under 10 feet of snow at this altitude. I prefer being closer to sea level!
Welcome! 
If you truly are a "birth junkie" you'll definitely want to look into joining the NCT (National Childbirth Trust) when you arrive.
I so will! Maybe I can now?! I am looking into midwifery schools even!
I was planning on driving 3 hours to Denver Colorado to start DONA international doula certification but midwifes are illegal here in Wyoming so there would really be no use. I talked to the only midwife in the state who had been practicing for 26 1/2 years and it made me cry- she delivered her 282 baby for a couple who came from out of state and the infant developed GBS and died back in Nebraska weeks after the birth. It was the only loss she has ever had. The state then charged her with practicing medicine without a license and closed her 'practice' down- even though she had the OBGYN backup that was required and GBS isn't something the hospitals routinely check for either and had nothing to do with the care she provided during labour. She was almost in tears, still answering the phones a year later just to tell expectant mothers to leave the state because that's the only way she could help anymore. It really scares me that the legal system can do this to a very professional and experienced person, who there is a huge demand for here. It just makes no sense. I'm terrified we'll get pregnant here.
I was going through the process to quarantine my husky for a while to, but I ended up changing my mind, I just didn't think she would do well with the travel and change! 
I miss her but she's in a great place now!!
We want children very bad and have been displacing that need with pets- we actually have 5 dogs and a cat now. (Along with 5 ducks in the backyard and a small tortoise.) We decided that 3 of my little dogs need to find good homes. They are beautiful show dogs and I just couldn't say no when I took them in, but I don't think they are attached to me and would be happy being spoiled pets instead of going through the move. I'm having a hard time finding them homes because they are worth a lot of money and are fairly unique. (They are all hairless.) It seems everyone is struggling financially though.
The travel is going to be tough still because we'll be bringing one little dog- Attila, a hairless Chinese crested, one medium dog- Faroe, a black mix rescued from the pound, and a cat- Pebbles, a 17 year old rescued sphynx with us. We are getting their paperwork in order so we can avoid the quarantine. My little dog was my fathers dog and was in my fathers arms when he died (my father died a week after his 44th birthday) and I don't really know if he (or I
)would survive quarantine. The cat is old, toothless, hairless and very needy and I dont think she would survive 6 months of separation either!
Sorry for the long post! Whew! Its nice to meet everyone!
