The Beauty Of Life

[StColette]

[quote name='Apotheoun' post='1857666' date='May 4 2009, 03:12 PM'][/quote]

Catholic Hospital with actual Sisters still working there. One of them came to check on me and the lil one to make sure we had everything we needed and then she asked if I wanted Communion brought to me. lol

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' post='1857661' date='May 4 2009, 03:58 PM']I never asked my grandfather. I'll have to ask my uncle sometime. [b] I think it was mainly the beauty of that new life for him.
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I'm guessing that that's got to be the main reason for most of them. I don't have any issues with male OBGYNs, I saw them all through my pregnancy with Charlotte (the doc on call when she was born was a woman, though) and my doc for most of this pregnancy was a man (he just retired a couple weeks ago. Figures. I really liked him. lol)... it just doesn't seem to be as "natural" (not the word I want to use but I can't think of the one I want) a calling as a woman being a midwife or OBGYN.

[sweens8403]

[quote name='Winchester' post='1857582' date='May 4 2009, 02:36 PM']I was struck by how smelly it was.

3+ years and never caught a baby on the ambulance. Excellent.[/quote]

Acutally, this wasn't my first experience with childbirth. When I was doing my clinicals before I got my EMT-Basic license we had a patient who had a son. My first patient ever in fact. Lucky for me all the messy stuff landed in the trauma bay and not the back of the ambulance, win.


[quote name='CatherineM' post='1857564' date='May 4 2009, 02:11 PM']There is actually a support group here for men who have PTSD from watching the birth of their kids.[/quote]

I believe it. One of the births I saw was a c-section, a particularly brutal one actually. The umbilical cord had prolapsed and the infant's heart rate was in the 70's. They pulled her into the OR lickety-split, pushed some pain meds, and started going to town. The thing is they couldn't wait for the pain medications to go into effect, so they were cutting her open basicly without any.

All I could think of was the scene at the end of Braveheart... freedom?

The baby and mom were fine, btw.

[Ziggamafu]

[quote name='sweens8403' post='1857795' date='May 4 2009, 05:21 PM']All I could think of was the scene at the end of Braveheart... freedom?[/quote]

LOL. I bet that was traumatic, though. Man. Maybe if my wife had "child-bearing hips" then I would get that whole "this is a beautiful miracle" thing. Both times (so far) my wife and I did NOT find child-birth beautiful. It was more like something out of a horror movie. I would much prefer children to be delivered by stork.