- The nurse seemed so aloof and unfriendly throughout the labour. The doula tried hard not to let it phase her and focused on her client. After the labour was over and mom and dad were cuddling with babe, the nurse pulled the doula aside and said “I have to tell you, you are, by far, the best doula I have ever worked with.”
- The midwife asked the little boy with red hair “Is there a baby in your mommy’s tummy?” He replied “Na. It’s in her uterus!”
- As she was done with the push, she noticed her doctor calmly picking up a pair of scissors. “What are you doing?” “I was just going to do a little cut to help this baby out,” he said. “Don’t you dare!” she snapped. He dropped the scissors like they were hot and they fell with a metallic rattle to the tray. “I just need to, to move.” She pulled herself upright, closer to the squatting bar and pushed her baby out in two more pushes, with an intact perineum.
- As the young child was lifted up to the bed to see her brand new brother, she immediately bent down and kissed the vernix and blood-streaked cheek with all the tenderness in the world.
- She called and left a message on a cheery answering machine. “I didn’t see you in class this week and just wanted to check in on how the ultrasound went.” After a week she got the call that broke her heart. “The baby wasn’t viable, they said. We were induced right away. She did a great job with the breathing. She was such a beautiful baby. She hung on for about an hour. You shoulda seen her. She had lots of hair. And my eyes, oh yeah, and her chin.” Her heart broke just a bit more.
- As she was labouring on the birth ball and leaning on her bed, her son came in. The doula wasn’t quite sure if she should usher him out so hung back to see what would happen. The mom, always a mom, gave him a hug as she breathed through another contraction. “I just wanted to see how that baby is doing,” he said. With that, he bent down to his mom’s crotch and yelled upwards, “Hey, it’s this way, baby!” The rest of that transition passed with gales of laughter.
