Written 8/31/08
Kate is doing a good job supervising the Birth Center and training our full-time Midwives, alongside our short-time Midwife and Doula Interns.
It has been really busy with births this month - 23 at last count, plus a few transports we labored with and then regretfully, and with the request/consent of the families, sent to the hospital.
We learn something new with each birth. We talk about it alot.
In the between-birth times, Kate conducts great training classes. She is really good about offering herself as a training aid, and super good about bringing homemade cookies to class! We had an intense two hour plus lesson on shoulder dystocia's yesterday, until we were smoked out (see next blog entry).
Our doula intern Maria is a certified massage therapist, so she was very gracious to teach us some valuable techniques. Of course, we practiced on Kate! And our pregnant women will benefit too.
I hope I never quit learning. Pass it on.
