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Birth SNAPSHOTS

Brief moments from our days...


- 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.

copyright 2005 Sarah Hilbert-West

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