Apr. 11, 2007 - Hard to find the discipline
Okay, I've gotten my admission packet, gotten all the textbooks I have to have for Unit One , gotten several books for reading. Now, I'm finding out just how difficult it is to force myself to sit down and actually study.
Now, one reason I really loved this course was that there was no pressure to finish within a certain time. I am a mom to three boys and am working nights full time as a charge nurse in a nursing home. My husband works ten hour shifts in the evenings four days a week, plus he is in the National Guard. I am a pretty busy woman on the best of days.
Right now, I've finished with my Varney's assignments, I'm working on (slowly) my Holistic Midwifery reading, I've gotten two of my projects done for the workbook. I have had an easy time with the skills assignments, because they are all things I do as a nurse on a daily basis. I still have a lot more hours of study I need to do to meet the 45 hour requirement, and right now I'm lucky if I get a full hour to myself to do that. I'm trying to read The Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth, and I think I'll also read Easing Labor Pain for my two books this unit. Also, I need to figure out a way to get more clinical hours for the six hour requirement...
I have made contact with a midwife here, and she seems very sweet! I meet with her next Wednesday and I'm very much looking forward to it. I'd like to talk to someone working locally about this path.
I have also been reading a lot on the history of midwives in this country, mostly about the legal battles midwives have been willing to fight to keep birth and midwifery safe. It's hard to believe that there are still states who make it illegal for women to have a child anywhere other than a hospital. In Kansas the Kansas Supreme Court has declared that midwifery is legal. This does help me some, but with my husband's job and his military career, who knows where we might end up and what we may have to face.
I am thinking of starting some kind of natural childbirth support group. Not sure exactly how I'll go about doing that, but it's been something on my mind a lot lately.
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Mar. 26, 2007 - Starting Off...
I have wanted to be a midwife for a really long time now...definitely for the past six years. I knew it's what I wanted to do when I started nursing school. It has always seemed like a pipe dream, though, not really attainable. Schools are very expensive, and even the ones that are pretty fair require a deposit that was just too much for us to handle.
Recently, though, I was told about the Midwife-to-Be program and got soooo excited. This was basically an answer to my prayers!! So, I talked to DH about it, and I've got my registration fee sent off and am awaiting the registration pack. I haven't yet been able to find the books I need immediately, but I have gotten a few. Today I got the first two of the ones I've ordered: Prescription for Dietary Wellness, and Husband-Coached Childbirth. Kinda upset about having to buy that one because I used to have a copy of the Bradley Method but I'm just not sure where I stashed it. Well, can't hurt, right?
So far, I've gotten everything off of Amazon. I'm having to wait for the next paycheck before getting anything else, but that's coming up so I'm not too worried.
What I need ASAP:
Holistic Midwifery I by Anne Frye
Varney's Midwifery 4th ed.
Helping Hands Workbook by Carla Hartley
Practical Skills Guide
Maternal Newborn Nursing 7th ed.
Everything else for Phase I:
• Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth - Kitzinger
• Spiritual Midwifery -Ina May Gaskin
• Heart And Hands - Elizabeth Davis (ordered)
• Bradley Book - Husband Coached Childbirth or other
• Special Delivery – Rahima Baldwin
• Prescription for Dietary Wellness – Balch & Balch
• Active Birth - Balaskas
• Easing Labor Pains - Lieberman
• Medical Terminology w/ Human Anatomy - Rice
• Birthsong Workbook
• Immaculate Deception 2 – Susanne Arms
• A midwives Handbook – Sinclair
• Physical Exam 6 Ed - Bates
Seems like a lot when written out.... Hmm..too bad my birthday isn't a little closer!!
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