The Birth of a Midwife

My Journal

2005-11-14T21:42:42Z

A lot about my work as a (new) midwife, a bit about my work as a mother, and a few rants thrown in about the crazy people in my life. It's mostly friends-only, so post a comment to be friended.

I suck at journaling!

2005-10-24T13:06:41Z

Okay, so I found out 9 days ago that I PASSED NARM! YIPEE! I'm now "officially" a midwife. And I have a client who is due in May, which is pretty darn exciting :).

I had such a great chat with an ex-doula client today. She had her baby and promplty moved to NEBRASKA. Her birth, IMO, sucked, and I constantly beat myself up about what I could have done differently. There was a really pushy nurse who was totally coaching her pushing, and it was just not a great second stage. Anyway.... She was very happy with her birth (and as a first time mom, I would have been also, but now I know better). Baby is 4 months old now and she's enjoying being a SAHM. As I talked to her (she asked about vaccinations and how I came to the conclusion that I came to), I was just wishing that she hadn't moved :(. She and I could really have been friends. There aren't a lot of people in the world that I feel that way about and it makes me sad.

I'm in the process of building my practice. I really had no idea what all would be entailed in this, I don't think. I've gotten all of my charts and what I'm now calling CYA documents together (because of my consultation with my client last week), but now I need protocols. And I need to be able to take those protocols to a doctor and ask for standing orders. And I need to know what doctor to ask about the standing orders. It's totally overwhelming.

It's Here

2005-09-11T17:25:27Z

Okay, I know that I left a rather cryptic message on my Blogspot Journal a couple of weeks ago and haven't really updated here or explained to anyone why I decided to move my journal. In reality, it was an issue that I've had for a long time with trying to express my feelings without knowing who might be reading. A few times it's caused problems that I wrote what I felt in my journal and the "wrong" person read it. I just want to avoid those situations again. LiveJournal provides much more security than any of the other online journal websites and I just feel more comfortable knowing who is reading. I'm sure you understand :-).

And so it begins!