Mar 23 2007
Get Clean Towels and Boil Some Water!!!
Okay, I know I’ve posted a million times today, and those of you have me on google reader are probably ready to kill me right about now. But, as you can see, this is still a very new site and I’m trying my darndest to get it up and running. So, lucky for you, I’m pretty much posting everything that comes to mind right now! hahaha
So, yesterday while I was at my Relief Society meeting, a VERY PREGNANT woman came up to me.
“Hi!” she says. “I heard that you had your babies at home!”
“Three of them, yes,” I replied, not sure if she was going to admire me or condemn me to hell for such “endangerment.”
“Oh, that’s so great. Can I have your phone number? I don’t want to go to the hospital too early when I go into labor, but I’m afraid that if I wait TOO long, I might end up having this baby at home and I’d need your help, since you know all about this and you live so close.”
I was flabbergasted.
Just because I have given birth at home does NOT mean that I automatically know how to deliver a baby!! That’s like saying that since I had surgery on my kidney stones I can now perform the same surgery on someone else?
As if my midwife hadn’t gone through years of schooling, hundreds of births, and an extensive liscensure process. And as if I just happen to have oxygen and pitocin and other possible necessities lying around my house that I could stick in my trunk and bring to her birth.
However, I was taken off guard just enough that I said, “Um, sure! Call me anytime.”
Hahahahaha. YIKES!
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OMG! I can’t believe she just assumed you would know how to deliver a baby and asked you that… I would have done exactly what you did, but still, what will you do if she calls you in the middle of the night and asks you to come over and deliver the baby….
Wow. I hope she makes it to the hospital!!!!
HAHAHAHA!!! I’m picturing Brillig, elbows deep in placenta, screaming for the boiling water. Not pretty. That’s hilarious, though. I can’t believe it!