I was paged just before 3 o'clock this morning and caught an adorable baby boy about an hour later. As my partner and I were doing post-delivery care I was paged again, and about an hour and a half after I arrived at the next mama's home, I caught a delicious chubby baby girl ( Read more... )

I'm racing to get a few things done before I throw myself in bed at a decent hour.  We still have 2 mamas who we expect to hear from at any time, as well as an endless confusing list of postpartum visits to do.  Keeping track of which client needs which day of postpartum visit and which midwife needs a report afterward (or needs to accompany me) is ( Read more... )

Tuesday morning (29th)
* I was paged to a birth just after 7 a.m * Caught a baby boy around 8 a.m. (Primary #5 ( Read more... )

My thoughts are so jumbled right now and I can't think of how to put into words how wonderful it was to receive a beautiful baby girl into my hands this morning. Not since the birth of my own beautiful girls have I felt such wonder ( Read more... )

There were three women in labor today and so one of the woman was given to Dina, who was second on, to take care of. I was up all night, went to bed for four hours and then got up for the first birth, then hung out and ate and watched tv trying to sleep on the couch early this afternoon. I finally realized I was really emotional and over-tired ( Read more... )