Life is good!!
Today I need to blog about my professional world.
If you don't know I'm a homebirth and birth center midwife. I think most of you do though.
I had a very long day yesterday. I am so happy with the way things turned out. I got called in the the birth center at 2am on the 5th. The mama seemed to be laboring good and strong. So the assitants and I got everything ready. Well the labor kept going an going and going. Which was fine. It just seemed like she was working so hard.
Ultimatley I ended up seeing an entire days worth of clients while the other midwife monitored the labor. I would check in from time to time. It was a busy day. In the mix I saw two mama's that are due and one for her 6 week postpartum visit and a couple more. With a labor going on it seemed very busy.So my last client left at 4pm and the laboring mama started to push.
Pushing took nearly 3 hours. My body is so sore. Which is not typical for me after a birth. Most of my midwifery clients call or come in when they are in very active labor and the baby comes a short time after or at least in a few hours. I dont' need to coach them. They just push their baby's out. Not this mama. We all worked my ass's off and I think I sprained me arm pretty good. She was amazing and so strong.
This was a birth totally within the range of normal with so many trippy variations.
I am so happy and proud to say we had a happy and healthy mama and baby without having to go to the hospital. Not that I go to the hospital very often. I am just extra happy and proud not to go with this one.
Trinity by Mara Friedman
"There is not a single report in the scientific literature that shows obstetricians to be safer than midwives for low-risk or normal pregnancy and birth. So if you are among the more than 75 percent of all women with a normal pregnancy, the safest birth attendant for you is not a doctor but a midwife." Marsden Wagner, MD
Oh and if I haven't said it lately----> I LOVE WHAT I DO!!!!!
Today I need to blog about my professional world.
If you don't know I'm a homebirth and birth center midwife. I think most of you do though.
I had a very long day yesterday. I am so happy with the way things turned out. I got called in the the birth center at 2am on the 5th. The mama seemed to be laboring good and strong. So the assitants and I got everything ready. Well the labor kept going an going and going. Which was fine. It just seemed like she was working so hard.
Ultimatley I ended up seeing an entire days worth of clients while the other midwife monitored the labor. I would check in from time to time. It was a busy day. In the mix I saw two mama's that are due and one for her 6 week postpartum visit and a couple more. With a labor going on it seemed very busy.So my last client left at 4pm and the laboring mama started to push.
Pushing took nearly 3 hours. My body is so sore. Which is not typical for me after a birth. Most of my midwifery clients call or come in when they are in very active labor and the baby comes a short time after or at least in a few hours. I dont' need to coach them. They just push their baby's out. Not this mama. We all worked my ass's off and I think I sprained me arm pretty good. She was amazing and so strong.
This was a birth totally within the range of normal with so many trippy variations.
I am so happy and proud to say we had a happy and healthy mama and baby without having to go to the hospital. Not that I go to the hospital very often. I am just extra happy and proud not to go with this one.
Trinity by Mara Friedman
"There is not a single report in the scientific literature that shows obstetricians to be safer than midwives for low-risk or normal pregnancy and birth. So if you are among the more than 75 percent of all women with a normal pregnancy, the safest birth attendant for you is not a doctor but a midwife." Marsden Wagner, MD
Oh and if I haven't said it lately----> I LOVE WHAT I DO!!!!!
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have fun here! lol. (ps, the small size leg lamp is much less at the mall than on that site
Last year my daughter got me "The Old Man" bobblehead. It sits on my desk and I look at him everyday. He's holding the leg lamp lol.