I had my first whoops-that’s-not-labor moment. You hear about people having them, nervous first time moms running to the hospital only to be sent home a few hours later, still pregnant. That was me yesterday only I’m not a first time mom. With my first daughter my water broke and it was go time. This pregnancy has been so different. When I woke up Saturday morning I thought I had lost a bit of amniotic fluid in my jammie pants. I was nauseous and felt like one big Braxton Hicks contraction and when I called the on-call doctor, who I’ll name Dr. Bummer, he told me I should probably head on on in to the hospital to get checked out.  read more »

If you’ve given birth in a hospital you know one thing to be true of doctors and nurses during labor - the nurses are the unsung heroes! A good nurse or a bad nurse can completely change a woman’s scenario. Doctors are like the rock stars, the headlining act that only shows up for the last half of the show but the nurses are there through out, assisting you, making you feel as comfortable as possible and in the end if they had to deliver a baby they totally could. They usually don’t get that glory, the doctor comes in, scoops up the newborn in a catcher’s mitt and rides off on the shoulders of the hospital staff while the nurse hangs back and shows new parents how to give a baby a bath, change it’s diapers, nurse and burp the baby, etc.  read more »