I thought maybe, while I waited to see what happens with school, I could explain a little about where I would like to go with nursing and my own personal experience with why. Like I've mentioned, I have 2 beautiful kids. My DD is 2 1/2, will be 3 in October and my DS is about 8 months. My DD was born at home unassisted, meaning the only people there were me, my husband, and my DD. My DS was also born at home, but we had a midwife present the second time around. I've never had a hospital birth, so I don't really have personal experience to draw from, but the home birth was the greatest experience. Once the baby was born, it was so nice to just relax and actually sleep in my own bed. Both of my kids were born quick, my DD coming in 4 1/2 hours and my DS coming in something crazy like 1 1/2. I don't think I would've made it to the hospital anyways, therefore I would certainly prefer a home birth over a car birth.
Now, the reason I decided on the home birth was simple. It's a natural process. My body knows how to digest food to give me energy and nutrients. My body knows how to expel wastes it doesn't need. My body knows how to rid itself of bod food or excess food. If my body can by smart enough to make me shiver to generate energy to warm up, why couldn't it be smart enough to continue our generation without complications? I truly believe that a lot of the complications come up because of the many unnecessary factors we throw its way. Do we really need to test for genetic problems before birth? Would you really be heartless enough to say, "I can't take care of a down syndrome child, let's abort."? If you can, then you shouldn't be having kids to start with. And how about all the pain meds and pitocin, and whatever else they feel is "necessary" to effectively give birth. Once in a while something really truly does go wrong. When it does, I'm very happy we have doctors who can step in and help out, but until that something goes wrong, they need to step back and let our bodies handle things.
If you look in the background there, you can see our midwife. I unfortunately didn't get an actual picture of her. This was the day my DS was born. Those of you who had kids. After you went through the whole ordeal of birth, wouldn't it be awesome to just climb into your bed with your new baby and get to know him/her in the quiet of your own home? It really is a safe and wonderful route for those with healthy normal pregnancies. Once my kids get to be a little older, I would love to become a midwife and give the same care I received and empower women to take over their care and make it the experience they truly want. Yes child birth is painful, but studies have shown that an epidural not only prolongs labor, but gives you a much higher chance of a cesarean section. Is that really worth that risk? I don't believe it is.
How does the old saying go? If it's not broke, don't fix it!
~THE Future Nurse Chelsey
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