A New Chapter-Midwifery School - Hard to find the discipline

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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Apr. 24, 2007 - Schooling

How is the reading going? How do you like Varney's? I didn't like struggling through that one. I was only a CNA before starting my midwifery program. Maybe being a nurse makes Varney's easier to bear. I heard she only did like 30 births before she wrote that book. Have you read Heart & Hands by Elizabeth Davis. I liked that one much better. It is more of a homebirth kind of book and less of a clinical setting.

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