Work has been a roller coaster for me.  I have been in tears twice after leaving the hospital.  I have also met some of the neatest people.  I've been praying for a thicker skin in relation to dealing with doctors and nurses.  Some of them are great and I know them from when I worked labor and delivery before.  Some are new and great, some are new and disrespectful to patients, a very few have been around and are still sour.  And county doctors....I don't even want to go there. 

I have changed a bit since I've been away from the hospital and it has been for the good.  Maybe because I've worked more with mothers that I know and love, I seem to be better at addressing emotional needs.  I still know all the same tricks but I noticed that I can identify and work with the mom's emotional state quicker. 

I'm a bit tired and drained, though.  I started to blog the other day and it was all fuck this and fuck that.  So I decided to breathe it through.  It will take some time for me to adjust.  Going back to the hospital has reinforced my desire to work in a birth center and home births eventually.  We don't have a birth center here....we're kind of backwards in that way. 

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11-day old Gourd Baby (same one that I pollinated)

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