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Jerrica's Blog To start out my day I was in the midwifery clinic with Ms. Pam. i honestly thought my day was going to be boring. but it was actually very educational. To start off the day Ms. Pam and I took in our first appointment. We will call her Ms. X. She was pregnant.  **She was pregnant with her second child and was praying it was a girl because she already had a boy. Ms. Pam just gave her a normal check up nothing too serious. Blood pressure, Temperature, things like that. She also handed her couple of eating charts and other handouts. During out brief break, I began to look through the pamphlets; the information in them gave me a better look into what nine months of pregnancy would be like. Then we met with Mrs. M she very excited about her first child and so was her husband. Ms. Pam decided that it was time to weight the baby and listen to the heartbeat. Even though it wasn’t my child I teared up listening to it, because to know that the woman’s body can do something like bring a life into the world was amazing and for the next 47 hours I wanted to have a baby. For the most part of the morning it was the same until we met with our first post pardon mother and the doctor began to look into birth control. Ms. Pam gave her then the regular options then gave two I had never heard of. They are called IUDs one last five years with no period and the other last ten years with heavy bleeding. The mother made her decision then asked for the side effects which were infection IF your partner engaged in unprotected sexual activity with other partners. For the most part that is what my day looked like. **  
 * MIDWIFERY CLINIC**

THE BIRTH CENTER So the next day started out kind of slow, until i was told i was going to get to see a real vaginal birth. around 11:20 is when the woman went into labor. at first i wasn't looking because i didn't want to be looking all into the woman's vagina, but she told me that it was okay becasue if i was to go into the medical field i see worse. so that's when i began to ee hte lttle boy's head. it didn't seema s though the woman was in too much pain, but it still looked painful. At 12:02 is when her son was born and i was sitting there crying because it was so beautiful, a life being born. then after the baby was out i got to feel the embilical cord and to check and make sure it was a three valve feeding tube. then i got to feel the heatbeat from the embilical cord. it was totally crazy. then i asked if all the births went this fast. Ms. Yates said no, but htis is her fourth child so her body would be more used to it. After this we did the paper work and i called the pharmacy to see if the had anything for nasal congestion. and then i went home.

THE BIRTH CENTER PART 2 Man oh boy, by far this was the most painful thing i had ever saw in my life. It wasn't even the fact that she was having her baby it was how. Well her embelical cord was kind of chockin her son, but it depended on her position, s they put her on her hands and knees. The they told her that, this would be the position she would have her child in. Outside of that this was her first birth. Later on while she waa there i was in the OR watching a C-Section. man i though t iwas going to pass out, but im totally kool so i didn't i just became dizzy at first. so they were cutting through the layers of fasha with this electrical tool because it would be faster then they had to cut through her uterus which was totally crazy, once the baby was out safely (the baby was breach) they had to sew the lady back up, but they had to be super careful that the sewed the righ tlayeres back up, and if you ask me that looked difficult. They got it done and all was over. By the way there daughter was beutiful. I go back into the room where the teen is having her child and Good gracious, all I could do was sit becaus eher son was moving back and fourth, he did not want to come out. A hour later he finally starts crowing and like thats as far as he would come out so one of the midwife's had to put her hand inside of the girl's vagina and pull the baby out. That wasn't even the most painful part, when they came in to sew the rip they conveyed to me that she riped through her anus, and man oh boy i was like stunned, i didn't think that was even possible! So i'm watching the doctor sew the girl up and then tell me why the girl starts screaming. i'll tell you because she can feel the needle and everything else poking her. The local wasn't working on the girl. That's when Jerrica left. But honestly i think i could really see myself doing this for the simple reason it reminds me a lot of the emergency Room.

Helath care Questions: Ms. Pam suad that he husband is a nurse and she just kind of fell into it, but that she really enjoys her work. Four years of college plus, two - thre years of med school- in nursing Being able to bring new lives into the world. It depends on the patinets and where she is placed at, if she is in the clinic then it is very routine,if it is the labor room it is very exciting. Sometinmes the patients are very unfriendly and it gets hard dealing with their attiudes. The one she is in now.