Hey folks. It's National Breastfeeding Month! Read more about the conversation and ways to participate here. I am extremely passionate about breastfeeding and providing breastfeeding support - my FAVORITE part of my job is helping teens explore and establish breastfeeding. Watching their continued success months down the road is one of the most rewarding experiences as a nurse, lactation educator, and childbirth educator.
If you or someone you know is pregnant or breastfeeding and needs help and support, La Leche League International is a wonderful resource with support groups meeting all around the world.
Happy Tuesday, everyone.
Love,
Ash
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
dreams.
[I sit down on my brother's bed where Christian is napping - we're at my folks' for a short weekend visit after I attended a breastfeeding conference down here all day Friday. Christian is sleeping, which is what you do with your spare time when you're in medical school.]
Bottom line: he is constantly dreaming about being at the hospital. I remember when I started working in the ICU, I had the worst dreams about forgetting to do things for my patients or missing things in my assessment that turned out to be crucial. A few times I dreamed that I was taking care of a bunch of kids I went to high school with in my ICU. Very weird. Or sometimes I'd wake up in a cold sweat having dreamed I left the hospital to go to lunch (which you cannot do) and just didn't come back until the last hour of my shift. It's crazy how much stress will manifest itself in your dreams. I hope they let up a little for him soon.
I found in the past year working in public health and childbirth education I just dream about pregnancy. Being pregnant, being in labor, breastfeeding my babies, other people being pregnant, attending other people's births...I'm unsure how much of that is my inner midwife and how much of that is having a loving husband and 25-year-old ovaries controlling your dreams. I can say that as a birth enthusiast it's hard to complain about dreams like that. Much better than dreaming your old ex-boyfriend from sophomore year of high school is intubated and on an insulin drip.
Anybody else's work manifest itself in their dreams?
Finals week is upon me. Surgery rotation is upon Christian. God help us both.
Love,
Ash
I nudge him a little.
Me: "Chris.....honey......"
Christian: (eyes still shut) "What?"
Me: "I think we should get ready and go hang out with your parents for a while."
Christian: "We won't have any insulin if we go over there....."
Me: "What???"
Christian: "What??? What are you asking me?"
Me: "Your parents' house?....."
Christian: "Oh...yeah, sure....20 more minutes...."
Bottom line: he is constantly dreaming about being at the hospital. I remember when I started working in the ICU, I had the worst dreams about forgetting to do things for my patients or missing things in my assessment that turned out to be crucial. A few times I dreamed that I was taking care of a bunch of kids I went to high school with in my ICU. Very weird. Or sometimes I'd wake up in a cold sweat having dreamed I left the hospital to go to lunch (which you cannot do) and just didn't come back until the last hour of my shift. It's crazy how much stress will manifest itself in your dreams. I hope they let up a little for him soon.
I found in the past year working in public health and childbirth education I just dream about pregnancy. Being pregnant, being in labor, breastfeeding my babies, other people being pregnant, attending other people's births...I'm unsure how much of that is my inner midwife and how much of that is having a loving husband and 25-year-old ovaries controlling your dreams. I can say that as a birth enthusiast it's hard to complain about dreams like that. Much better than dreaming your old ex-boyfriend from sophomore year of high school is intubated and on an insulin drip.
Anybody else's work manifest itself in their dreams?
Finals week is upon me. Surgery rotation is upon Christian. God help us both.
Love,
Ash
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Guess who caught the first baby?
Yesterday Christian caught his first baby and was absolutely in love. He remembered everything about the parents and the baby's name and how much he weighed. I told him to be careful or he'll catch the fever and we can only handle one birth worker in this family (but who knows!?). He has his shelf exam - the exam after each specialty rotation - coming up so we're both spending the weekend buried in books.
First semester clinicals are winding down for me. I have learned so much and am starting to actually feel like a student midwife. I also love that I am now more helpful in the clinic than a pain in the butt. I take patients off different schedules and see them on my own, which really lightens the load for the other providers. I am so lucky to have been invited to stay at the same site for my second semester ambulatory care clinical (pretty much the same stuff as this past semester) - this means not having to re-learn a different EHR, not having to develop a new relationship with a different preceptor and provider. I am thrilled, I love my current site (and my many preceptors in this huge practice...I regularly rotate with 4 different midwives). I'm now just counting down to December when I get to start catching!!! AHHH! So exciting (and I can't believe that Christian beat me to it!).
First semester clinicals are winding down for me. I have learned so much and am starting to actually feel like a student midwife. I also love that I am now more helpful in the clinic than a pain in the butt. I take patients off different schedules and see them on my own, which really lightens the load for the other providers. I am so lucky to have been invited to stay at the same site for my second semester ambulatory care clinical (pretty much the same stuff as this past semester) - this means not having to re-learn a different EHR, not having to develop a new relationship with a different preceptor and provider. I am thrilled, I love my current site (and my many preceptors in this huge practice...I regularly rotate with 4 different midwives). I'm now just counting down to December when I get to start catching!!! AHHH! So exciting (and I can't believe that Christian beat me to it!).
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