Random moments in my week

All birth related. Go figure.

So I belong to a forum for doulas, called alldoulas.com if you can believe that. Anyway, I was checking out the people that had "thanked" me in posts there, just a way of saying, well thanks lol, for something you've said because they liked it or your helped them out or whatever. Well back when I first joined they started doing a member spotlight and I was the first member to participate (only because I volunteered first lol). So here is an excerpt:


Do you have a doula "hero"?

I have a birth hero. Gloria Lemay.


Whom do you feel has been the most influential person in the birth field, as it applies to non-interventionist philosophy in the last 50 years?

I have to say Gloria. I have read lots of things she has written and I absolutely love her philosophy. She realizes what every doctor and midwife needs to realize about birth, and that is that they are not necessary. She also has strong convictions and has gone to jail over them. The outpouring of support from her clients was hearwarming and illustrative of the amazing woman she is. I'd love to meet her someday.

And who do you think thanked me?

The Following User Says Thank You to MsDoula For This Useful Post:
GloriaLemay (03-22-2007)

HA! I was happy. Yeah, I'm a dork but it made my freaking week!

Another birth moment this week: My client who was pregnant with twins and planning an all natural delivery that I was SO looking forward to gave birth unplanned unassisted at home in her bathroom Monday morning. Seriously. The medics didn't even make it. But they did get there right before me and they didn't have enough cord clamps (two babies = two cords lol). So the medic was asking dad for shoe strings and I said, "You need a clamp? I have one!" LMAO So I gave him the only clamp I was carrying. Then tonight my friend, also a medic, calls and tells me my client was being talked about all over this morning when she went into work. The woman who had twins at home unassisted. And the girl who came up after with the cord clamp in her "purse" (doula bag). LMAO I'm the crazy lady with the cord clamps.

Other news this week, my a/c at home is broke! And in case you forgot I live in Hell Mississippi, Area Code 66666. It is HOT here already and no A/C is seriously not cool. hehe I'm punny. Alright, sorry uncalled for I know.