Now That Christmas is Over

Now that Christmas is over and I have a moment to take a breather, I realized that the next basic skills workshop is only 26 days away!! Somehow it crept up on me, and I have a feeling that in only another blink of my eye students will begin arriving!

I am working through the MTB program, but also am going to start practicing for the skills assessment. I have to pay an additional $700 for the skills assessment, and so I do not plan on failing it! Andrea and I are probably going to start quizzing each other on it. With any luck, I will be taking the skills assessment later in the year in 2010.

We are still patiently waiting on our Christmas baby, and we are so happy that our mom is just glowing, and enjoying her last few days pregnant, instead of spending them miserable and wishing her baby was here already. I will, of course, update as soon as our Christmas baby decides to make her appearance!

This week at the clinic we have a fairly slow paced week. We have a client coming Monday for a post partum visit, our Christmas baby's mom coming for a check up Monday or Tuesday, and three clients on Thursday morning. Friday is my preceptor's birthday. The clinic is going to start getting busier in January, as we have a busy first half of the year. I am so excited, I can hardly wait!
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Merry Christmas!

We are still waiting on our Christmas baby. I have a feeling she will make her appearance late in the evening tonight, but we shall see.

In the meantime I had Christmas Eve dinner with Linda and her family, and I had a lot of fun. They are so warm and welcoming. I decided to stay home today and rest, my sinuses have been miserable due to the weird weather here, and I want to be well rested and feeling good for our Christmas baby's appearance.

Our twins mommy is doing well, and I was so happy to see her again. We will see her again in two more weeks.

We are gearing up for a busy first half of the year next year and I am so excited!

Merry Christmas!
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A Bustling Season at the Clinic!

This has surely been a bustling season at the clinic! We have had a few false alarms with our Christmas baby, but she has not arrived yet. We are being happily patient for her perfect birthday to arrive, as always leaving it in God's hands! I will, of course, update you when our Christmas baby arrives.

In the mean time, my children are in Florida with their father, and I am spending my Christmas season alone, but not. If I could have chosen company for a Christmas without my children I could not have made a better choice! I am away from *any* and all of my blood borne family this holiday season, but am celebrating with Linda and her family, who have welcomed me as if I was born into the family during this season. I also have my Church parish family, and will probably see my guy at some point during this week as well. I have secretly been dreading Christmas day for months now, and have had a bit of hidden depression over it. I have never been away from family during Christmas, and much of my family is very close knit. I was not looking forward to it. But, between all the excitement with the impending birth, and Linda and her family, Andrea, and my guy, it's not as bad as I thought it would be. My Christmas has been blessed.

I have taken a break from setting up the MTB moodle program, as it was beginning to consume my every waking moment. I was stressing about it and decided I needed a break from it. I wll get back on it after the first of the year.

I have also been busy organizing the next Basic Midwifery Skills workshop here at the clinic. We will once again welcome students from all over the USA to learn basic skills in a two day workshop at the end of January. I am excited about this, as I love the sense of sisterhood that we foster, as well as loving passing on the knowledge I have thus far attained.

Merry Christmas Eve everyone, and have a blessed Christmas Day!

Our Christmas Baby, and other updates

Our Christmas baby could come any day, and I am in the mood for a birth! We are all excited to meet baby Lily. I have been sleeping with my cell phone, with the volume turned all the way up, and trying to get to bed early in case I get a call in the middle of the night.

Other news at the clinic? The clinic cookie exchange party was wonderful, and lots of fun. I met many new people, including the local bradley instructor. The clinic is decorated so beautifully for Christmas. I am having a more difficult time getting into the Christmas spirit this year because it will be my first Christmas away from my children, and pretty much away from all family.

I have decided to take a break from setting up MTB moodle, and will come back to it after the first of the year.

Our twins' mommy looks beautiful, I love how beautiful her belly looks. Every time I see her I compliment her because she is just glowing!! Both of her babies are still vertex (head down) and in the ideal situation for a clinic birth. We are so excited to be able to be a part of her pregnancy!

We have had several other clients come in that are new, and our year next year is really shaping up to be pretty busy. With any luck, Andrea and I will be able to complete our numbers so that we can sit for the NARM exam soon!

Tomorrow is clinic day! I love clinic days, they are so fullfilling for me. It is one of the few places and times in my life that I feel totally in my place, in my element.

I know it's been a while

and I apologize to anyone who is reading along with my blog. I am not usually such a slacker when it comes to journaling (as can be seen by my dozens of journals that hold the last twenty years of my life in them stacked in my closet.....) but this last month has been so busy. We have had several new clients come to the clinic, plus the holidays are in full swing. I have been busy setting up the Midwife-To-Be moodle community for all of the students, and have been frustrated as well as joyous at the work involved to get it set up.

We are expecting a baby soon, she is 37 weeks now and in the count down, can go anytime! I am officially sleeping with my cell phone again, to make sure I don't miss a call! We have been busy turning babies who were stubbornly staying transverse lie as well as doing the cookie exchange party.

I am hoping to finish the moodle project before the end of the year, and I should at my current rate of progress!

We have also been very busy organizing another basic skills workshop for January, I am so excited to be offering this service to students across the country once again. My preceptor is awesome!

Tomorrow we have another Ultrasound for the twins' mommy, and I will post and update on how her babies are doing after that.

Until then!