RE: rocking

[Guest guest]

Rose,

I remember

some women using that too, and they like the hard rockers rather then the soft

reclining rockers, and then there were the women you could not get out of bed with

a bomb treat. Good memories, I find that when I am in pain moving helps too. I

sway a lot when standing somewhere in pain, I’ve had women behind me in

the grocery store; say you must have a baby at home? I’m sure that soon

that will turn into a grandbaby, instead of a baby, but those days are not

soon.

I’m

in that no more babies to early for grandbabies, so you just hold everyone else’s

babies when ever you can. Marla

" Faith

sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible "

From: Neurosarcoidosis [mailto:Neurosarcoidosis ] On Behalf Of Rose

Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 1:22

PM

To: Neurosarcoidosis

Subject:

rocking

They told her knitting & rocking in

my chair FAST

,

this reminded me of a mom in labor years ago. When I first became a

nurse-midwife, I worked in Vicksburg,

Mississippi for 2 years, at a

state charity hospital. This place was the dregs. The labor rooms

were actually one big room with curtains & cubbyholes for the

patients. Not much privacy, but it was really a good thing because the

nurses did very little patient care. So if there were several women in

labor, the midwife could keep track of them easier, just by listening to their

breathing, etc. One time I had several women in labor. This one

lady, who had had several babies, was sitting in a rocking chair in the middle

of this big room. She rocked gently most of the time, but during a

contraction she rocked harder. I was behind a curtain with another woman

when I realized that the rocker had been going hard for several minutes.

I went to check on her & she was just rocking like crazy with a very intent

expression. I asked her if the baby was coming & she just

nodded. I hollered for a nurse & helped her into bed, just in

time! I don't think I even got gloves on. These births were my

favorites. It's a good thing I didn't have my hearing loss back then,

because sometimes I would just hear a catch in someone's breathing, and the

baby was coming. Now I'd miss most of the births, unless they were really

vocal! Aww, those were the days.

Ramblin' Rose

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[Guest guest]

Rose when I was in nurses training, our school dorm was an addition to

the hospital. Our floor was L shapped and my room was the last room on

the little part of the L. On the other side of the wall was labor and

delivery.

In a very short time my room mate and I could say I yai, yai,yai in

about ten different languages. After a few months we became use to it

and could go to sleep and not even hear them.

After about a year they hired a male nurse who wanted to work in L&D

they couldn't figure out how the patients and their spouses would

accept a male nurse. The patients loved him and really protested when

they moved him to another unit. So back he came to L&D.

Those were the good old days when patient's got back rubs at least

every evening and sometime one in the afternoon also.

My class was very small, we graduated 23. Those were the good old days.

Judy in PA