A Mommy Story

I’ll be waking up at 5am today to get into scrubs and drive downtown for my second quarter of clinicals. This time we’re focusing on mothers and infants, so we’ll be spending seven hours each week on the labor & delivery and postpartum floors of the hospital.

Some students seem disinterested by this, but I’m thrilled. This is why I decided to switch careers and become a nurse – I want to work in OB, helping new moms through this difficult and amazing transition. It’s going to be hard, since this is the first time we’ll be actively taking care of patients (last quarter we did only a few basic care duties in a nursing home), so I hope I’ll do well.

PS – Be sure to check out Mommy’s Must Haves today, too, where I’m reviewing The Wheels on the Bus: Mango’s Big Dog Parade DVD for the Parent Bloggers Network. Roger Daltrey (remember him from The Who?) is one of the character voices, and that’s not even the best part. Bonus feature (from me, not the DVD): another new photograph of Mira!

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