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I attended two births in one day, almost exactly 12 hours apart.  One was due last month, one was due this month.  One boy, one girl.  One woman surrounded by family, the other with only her husband.  One noisy, the other quiet.  One totally uncomplicated, the other almost completely complicated.  One born in the water, [...]

I had one lunch time water baby born and while doing the clean up from that one, the next woman due called in labor.  I’m laying low… was supposed to have date night with my husband at my hair stylist’s birthday party (he is her personal trainer).  He went alone and I’m trying to outscore [...]

I went to the second day of the last stats class I had a chance of getting into and was rejected once again.  They chose about 30 students and 60 were hoping to get in.  It was REALLY hard not to cry on the spot, so I cried on the way to my car instead.  [...]

I’ve been on a tear since graduating from direct-entry midwifery school to get into nursing school so I could get into a grad program and rule the world become a nurse-midwife.  This meant I had to redo a lot of classes in community college I’d already done for the vocational college.  So since August, 2006 [...]

A client once came to me late in care and left me about two months later.  She left the first practice because it was hospital-based and she wanted a home birth.  She left the next practice because they rushed her through and didn’t answer her questions.  She left me because I answered them all.  Or [...]