a day to relax and recover
I'm pretty consistent; my mind wakes up every morning around 5:30 a.m.and my body relucantly follows soon after. Sleeping in until 7 a.m. is a treat.
I feel so relieved to know that NRP is over for another year. Since Abby died, I've recert'd in a birth center with midwifery students and a midwife for an instructor, a city hospital boardroom with doctors and med students, and now in my own local hospital with nurses. Yesterday, I was the minority and although the instructors made some effort to use the term "midwife" once in a while, the focus was really on "what equipment do you have in *your* caseroom?" or "You will have to assist the doctor with this..." In some ways it helped because I could trick my mind into believing I was just one of them, and not the nearly-midwife with a daughter in the ground.
Eventually, I would like to take the course to be come a NRP instructor myself, so that I can teach the course to the people who need to take it, regardless of whether they are Canadian midwifery students, doulas, nurses, EMTs, or whatever, and I can be sensitive to those who have experienced a full-on resus as a parent, doula, nurse, or midwife. And maybe it will be a good opportunity to teach nurses, doctors, and med students a bit about how well-trained and competent midwives are ;-)
Today, I'm going to try and get in a bit of scrapbooking, and take care of some domestic arts; there is a mess of laundry, barbie clothes, and cut up paper in the family room, groceries need to be bought, meals planned for the week, and I'm making these with the girls this afternoon. Scrapbooking and baking = post-NRP therapy ;-)
If I have the patience I'll call tech support for my &%$#@ printer so that I can print the invitations for Julia's birthday party. Her party always sort of sneaks up on me since Thanksgiving and Halloween come first and then all of a sudden it's the first of November and I have less than a week to pull it all together. This year, Julia asked for a pizza party so the kid will make their own small pizzas, I'll have the kids make simple (and cheap!) chef hats out of bristol board and tissue paper, I'll make a pizza cake and we'll play pizza bingo. Julia is so excited already!
I feel so relieved to know that NRP is over for another year. Since Abby died, I've recert'd in a birth center with midwifery students and a midwife for an instructor, a city hospital boardroom with doctors and med students, and now in my own local hospital with nurses. Yesterday, I was the minority and although the instructors made some effort to use the term "midwife" once in a while, the focus was really on "what equipment do you have in *your* caseroom?" or "You will have to assist the doctor with this..." In some ways it helped because I could trick my mind into believing I was just one of them, and not the nearly-midwife with a daughter in the ground.
Eventually, I would like to take the course to be come a NRP instructor myself, so that I can teach the course to the people who need to take it, regardless of whether they are Canadian midwifery students, doulas, nurses, EMTs, or whatever, and I can be sensitive to those who have experienced a full-on resus as a parent, doula, nurse, or midwife. And maybe it will be a good opportunity to teach nurses, doctors, and med students a bit about how well-trained and competent midwives are ;-)
Today, I'm going to try and get in a bit of scrapbooking, and take care of some domestic arts; there is a mess of laundry, barbie clothes, and cut up paper in the family room, groceries need to be bought, meals planned for the week, and I'm making these with the girls this afternoon. Scrapbooking and baking = post-NRP therapy ;-)
If I have the patience I'll call tech support for my &%$#@ printer so that I can print the invitations for Julia's birthday party. Her party always sort of sneaks up on me since Thanksgiving and Halloween come first and then all of a sudden it's the first of November and I have less than a week to pull it all together. This year, Julia asked for a pizza party so the kid will make their own small pizzas, I'll have the kids make simple (and cheap!) chef hats out of bristol board and tissue paper, I'll make a pizza cake and we'll play pizza bingo. Julia is so excited already!