Tired is a word that doesn't even come close to how I'm feeling right now. Which
is the reason for me ignoring everything other than work, my washing pile is
now sky high and my diet has now become anything that I can grab and eat in 5
seconds flat. The short shifts on delivery make it seem like I never leave, it
is so different from the MLBU it's ridiculous. I've gone from lovely water
births and natural births to seeing every woman with an epidural, CTG and all
laying on the bed. Everything I learnt in the first 2 weeks is being scrubbed
off for a more high-risk approach. It is sad because women don't understand the
possibilities that they have regarding childbirth and how a few metre from
delivery to the MLBU can be the difference between natural and medicalised.
I think many other people in the cohort are suffering and struggling to get
their heads round the placement it's supposed to be a low risk normal placement
but it's so difficult to get nice normal births. You can't help thinking that
maybe doctors and midwives interfere when there is no need to.
While I am at my rant, I’ve also started to get a bee in my bonnet about
pain relief during labour. When it is low risk women cope by mobilising, using
water, Paracetamol and a bit of Entonox but when you look at the delivery suite
pain relief it's Entonox, Pethidine or epidural! It seriously makes me want to
scream! I don't know if it's my mentor who is uncomfortable with women making
noise but she is very quick to get in the room and give that woman stronger
pain relief even though she may be coping very well.
Rant over :)
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