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[ocelot]

I got called into the hospital today! And the labor wasn't ridiculously long! And the baby was born before I had to leave! Yay!

I don't think I've had a birth that turned out that well for me in the past 6 months.

It was a couple without a camera, so I got to take pictures and get all artistic to salvage the ones that didn't turn out well.

I wish my college offered a medical Spanish class.

Comments

[purdypiedad.livejournal.com]

I think the list is a great idea! I ended up doing just that when I was in workers' compensation.

Yes, late childhood education does give you a little advantage, but really learning through immersion is the easiest way. If the other doulas aren't picking it up AT ALL, it's because they have no interest in it.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

It's not the other doulas I'm worried about. All of us are in there relatively infrequently - looking at the logs, 2 or 3 doulas have been called per month recently, meaning that any individual doula is unlikely to have more than one birth every few months, and not all of them Spanish-speaking. Certainly nothing anywhere close to immersion.

It's the nurses that make me angry.

[purdypiedad.livejournal.com]

Gotcha. You're right. They have no excuse.