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I have a small company that provides medicaid services to adults with Intellectual and developmental disabilities. My office is in my home so I can schedule my time as I like to a larger part. I love my freedom, staff and clients but hate all the regulations and changes we keep having to go through.
66 yrs young, 4'11" hw 220, goal 120 met at 12 months, cw 129 learning Maintainance
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Working in L and D would be fun, I think. I used to want to be a midwife. Birth just fascinates me.
What do you think about the increase in medical interventions during childbirth? Like the use of Pitocin in so many labors now and the high C-section rate? I understand those things are sometimes necessary and it's a very good thing they are available when needed, but it doesn't seem to me that they are truly needed as often as they are used.
What do you think about the increase in medical interventions during childbirth? Like the use of Pitocin in so many labors now and the high C-section rate? I understand those things are sometimes necessary and it's a very good thing they are available when needed, but it doesn't seem to me that they are truly needed as often as they are used.
Kelly
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It is sad to see birth turned into a medical condition that requires a "cure". I am an "old school" nurse....I much prefer to empower a woman to give birth naturally rather than monitor a bymch of medication drips to induce labor and take away the birth sensations.
The causes for this?
Well...there are many. Women and the doctors want a "planned event" rather than a normal spontaneous labor. Heaven forbid if someone goes a day past the due date...some of that is d/t the normal impatience all pregnant women have at the end of pregnancy....the other part is the fear of ligitation if for some reason the birth is not perfect and the doctor allowed the baby to be born "overdue".
The drugs we are able to use for induction are more sucessful than those used 20 years ago...but they are far from perfect. Once we start messing with a labor...the rest so of goes along with it...continuous fetal monitoring beucase the contrations are not normal, epidural because the labor is stronger.
Also, women don't seem interested in tolerating labor pain. Very few really want an unmedicated birth...and when the anesthesiologist is a phone call away....it is very easy for the mom to say "bring it on"! Also, the doctors and many of the nurses seem to prefer me medicate away any feeling to have a more compliant paitent.
The causes for this?
Well...there are many. Women and the doctors want a "planned event" rather than a normal spontaneous labor. Heaven forbid if someone goes a day past the due date...some of that is d/t the normal impatience all pregnant women have at the end of pregnancy....the other part is the fear of ligitation if for some reason the birth is not perfect and the doctor allowed the baby to be born "overdue".
The drugs we are able to use for induction are more sucessful than those used 20 years ago...but they are far from perfect. Once we start messing with a labor...the rest so of goes along with it...continuous fetal monitoring beucase the contrations are not normal, epidural because the labor is stronger.
Also, women don't seem interested in tolerating labor pain. Very few really want an unmedicated birth...and when the anesthesiologist is a phone call away....it is very easy for the mom to say "bring it on"! Also, the doctors and many of the nurses seem to prefer me medicate away any feeling to have a more compliant paitent.
SW 212 / Goal 130 / Current 130
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