Perspective...

I always thought I wanted to be a midwife. I really don't anymore. At work the other night we lost a baby at full term. This is very rare, and everyone really did the "right" thing, they didn't make any big mistakes or anything, however none of that changes the fact that a baby is dead, and a family is in deep mourning. I really used to think that most c-sections are unnecessary, I'm slowly changing my mind. I think that most of them probably are necessary now, however I think that we still do a lot of silly interventions that lead to having a necessary c/s. I'm changing my tune of advocacy. I'm now thinking that we need to lower the amount of planned inductions, c-sections, and the amount of medical interventions during birth. However once a Mom is in labor, if things are looking bad, section the kid. I hope my close friends don't flame me too much for this! I still think things are way out of control. I still advocate natural birth, but after seeing a family going through the death of a baby after a picture perfect pregnancy has me thinking...