Kristina ([info]anitsirk) wrote,
@ 2008-12-09 10:57:00
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birth
Last night I had a very scary dream wherein I was giving birth in a hospital.

My mom was there, along with 3 other nurses from the local LDR unit. They kept bugging me and bugging me, and then they called a male doctor. It was like... all of my birthing fears wrapped into one. Then they kept opening the shades to the room and people were watching me labor. In the dream, I kept saying "I want to go home". Then the baby was born and they were trying to vaccinate it, and I was pissed, because this was my last baby and I had a crappy birth experience.

You'd swear I was on mothering.com before going to bed.

In real life, my mother did actually try to persuade me to give birth in a hospital when I was pregnant with Enzo. And even though I didn't want her to worry, there was no way in hell.



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[info]sea_amethyst
2008-12-09 05:00 pm UTC (link)
Do you just have to hold all this inside with the nurses at work? I work at a hospital in Seattle that has the lowest Csection rate-under 20% most months, but yet I find (I am the house sup) that no matter how forward thinking the docs, I think it is nursing that is more stuck in old patterns. Gah, the sarcasm about birthing plans and natural birth gags me sometimes.

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[info]anitsirk
2008-12-09 06:03 pm UTC (link)
The nurses I work with know that I've had homebirths, and they know that I'm pretty crunchy.

I work at a relatively crunchy hospital as well, and I'd say there's a 25-25-50 split with the nurses- some are incredibly pro-natural childbirth, some want it old school, and most are fine with whatever.

I've definitely rolled my eyes at some birth plans- the ones that say things like "no IV no matter what" and "do not bathe the baby at all". But for the most part, the nurses I work with look at the birth plans and try to do what they can.

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