
I’m joining a team of other bloggers in time for International Children’s Day today, November 20. Hopefully by writing about possibilities, justice, and sending love across the world we can raise awareness and get people thinking about The Girl Effect. The lovely Tara Mohr created this blogging campaign and you can go here to read more about it (and read many other wonderful posts). I am thrilled to be a part of it, and hope that you will be inspired to do so as well. --Stacey
When I started working as a midwife 11 years ago, I joined a wonderful private practice. I worked in a clinic five days a week and was on call for births 7-8 days of the month. I’ve always loved helping women achieve the birth of their dreams.
After almost four years at this practice, however, I found myself wanting more. I found that I enjoyed interacting most with the few Latina women who came to a public health clinic I staffed one morning a week.
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Most of the instructions given to pregnant women are inadequate – not least because they encourage women to focus on the little things related to their pregnancy and miss the big picture. For example, early in my career as a midwife I was surprised by how many times women called me thinking they were in labor, not because they were having contractions, but because they lost their mucus plug. Then I picked up What to Expect When You’re Expecting and saw that it was listed as one of the common symptoms of early labor.
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I consider my body my most trusted advisor. I think it assimilates information from the Universe that I can’t understand fully at first. You see, I know the Universe wants my best life, but sometimes I don’t heed its advice – sometimes I’m convinced I don’t even hear it.
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Why is it that our doctors have become so broken? “Physician heal thyself,” or so they say. But it seems we’ve lost the art of caring for ourselves as a profession. It saddens me deeply. Yesterday, Aviva Romm, a skilled midwife/herbalist/author/artist-turned-Yale medical student called me to process the decisions that lie ahead of her.