Comments on: About NursingBirth http://nursingbirth.com One Labor & Delivery Nurse's View From the Inside Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:30:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jo Groves http://nursingbirth.com/about/#comment-2537 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:22:08 +0000 #comment-2537 I just want to thank you for your site. I am about 10 weeks prego with our first child. Although I am very nervous about the labor and delivery (still am) I feel much more prepared about the actual birth. I am military stationed oversees and it is/can be very difficult to choose a care provider simply because of the lack of options. But rest assured, I am going to make sure whoever it is will be the best one possible. I am much more relaxed now. Grazie!

]]> By: Courtney http://nursingbirth.com/about/#comment-2319 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:32:05 +0000 #comment-2319 Hi, really have enjoyed this blog. I’m one day ‘overdue’ with my 7th child, and I’m sure it seems strange, but everytime I have a baby, I can’t remember much about the last birthing experience… except that it was painful and I remember being elated that it was over and I had this new, darling little life!

I have to tell you what a joy it has been to hear from a L&D nurse. My experience with my 4th childs nurse was so terrible (she read info on my chart about my child I had given up for adoption and asked me all sorts of heartbreaking, insensitive questions…I cried for weeks afterwards) that I vowed to never have another hospital birth, and I haven’t. I’m glad to see that there are nurses who take their patients seriously–emotions, health, concerns, pain–and what a blessing to have someone so knowledgeable in this field to share their experiences and empower other women through their childbirth experience. Thank you!

]]> By: NursingBirth http://nursingbirth.com/about/#comment-2171 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:17:39 +0000 #comment-2171 Sabi, WELCOME!! It is SO AWESOME to hear that women who don’t even have children yet are reading my blog! I LOVE how you are educating yourself before you even get pregnant!

]]> By: Sabi http://nursingbirth.com/about/#comment-2142 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:38:31 +0000 #comment-2142 I’m so glad I found your blog! As a newlywed who is, with her husband, considering parenthood, I’m devouring all the information I can about pregnancy and childbirth. Sites like yours are a powerful informational tool, that we plan to use to defend myself and our future children from unnecessary harm. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

]]> By: Tori http://nursingbirth.com/about/#comment-2129 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:23:31 +0000 #comment-2129 This blog is amazing.
I honestly feel bad because before having read it, I questioned if L&D nurses such as yourself (a true advocate for mother and her best birth) existed!
I am a new doula and I’ve not yet had very many interactions with L&D nurses but from what little personal and doula experience I have, they are kind, caring, though not overly interested in being an advocate for mom and FAR TOO BUSY to even try. Just reading about the chit chat you have with your patients, I’ve yet to see that happen at all. The nurses I see in the hospital in my town make more eye contact with monitors than mothers and have stock answers and leave questions for the doctors to answer.

This perspective is so valuable. Your voice is so CLEAR. You break it down, in simple but yet technical terms. You bring about the knowledge that only ignorance can disagree with and the documented experience that casts a bright light on a vast jumble of injustice happening one mother at a time.
This blog brings me great sadness, entertains me, gives me hope and pushes me forward in my journey to help women, one at a time to have happy births.
Please keep writing!
Tori
Doula in the midwest

]]> By: NursingBirth http://nursingbirth.com/about/#comment-1810 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:18:12 +0000 #comment-1810 Nell, thank you for visiting!! I just love how you posted about your awesome birth! Thanks! I wish all women were given the opportunity to experience birth as you did!!! Come back often :)

]]> By: Nell http://nursingbirth.com/about/#comment-1809 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:49:29 +0000 #comment-1809 Thank you thank you thank you for your awesome blog! I think you are very brave for telling it like it is. I read Pushed by Jennifer Block weeks before my second was born and was determined to not get a c-section. The rate keeps going up and up and even though I was seeing the midwives at my practice and it was a second baby, I was still afraid I’d end up with one. I got to the hospital at 7cm so I was very happy I’d progressed that far on my own out of the hospital! My midwife also let the baby descend after being fully dilated for a bit before pushing. I didn’t even know you could do this. I ended up only pushing for like 10-15 minutes, maybe less, we were all shocked at how peacefully and easily my baby entered the world! Absolute bliss!
Bottom line, women need to be fully educated regarding their options, especially first time moms!!

]]> By: nursingbirth http://nursingbirth.com/about/#comment-1167 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:00:49 +0000 #comment-1167 Linette, yeah I really have to make a “contact” page! My email address is nursingbirth@gmail.com

]]> By: Linette http://nursingbirth.com/about/#comment-1164 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:38:04 +0000 #comment-1164 Can you send me your email address? I couldn’t find it anywhere on the site.

]]> By: nursingbirth http://nursingbirth.com/about/#comment-1064 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:10:30 +0000 #comment-1064 Mary, THanks!! I really appreciate that! And I love how you are “tag teaming” my blog with a friend! I hope more readers are like you and start talking about this stuff to their friends and family!!!

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