Following the Father

Ok, so we've jokingly said that this state has the strangest weather in the U.S. as it can change from the 70s to 30s almost over night, but everyone seems to claim that about where they live!  So now that we're in about a foot or  more of snow and it's almost April I'm thinking I should write a poem about this!  The drifts that we've collected around our house are completely shocking!  You can't see the railing on our deck.  It makes it very hard to try to estimate the actual amount of snow fall we are having.  Thankfully though my parents were out in this yesterday because of a doctor's appointment out of town, it was early on enough that they could get home.  It was slow going though, and they were diverted off of the interstate because of accidents from the ice.  Here it is snow, wind, and more snow, but not really any ice.

I'm now about 3 weeks into my apprenticeship with the midwife M.  She's amazing at what she does, and I feel very priveledged to be able to watch her and learn from her.  I know now that this is a much better first step than training at a birth center or pludging into a medical program.  I've been to 3 prenatals and postpartums at her place where all her ladies come for their appoitments.  I also have been to 2 births, both ending up on the same day.  We were at the one laboring mom's place for about 12 hours before she finally had her baby the next morning.  She was a trouper and has a healthy baby girl now.  The other mom also had a baby girl, but we were only there for the evening, and not all night for that one!  I thought the long one was a great first time for me though.  That's midwifery for you, you stay with the mom for everything, not burst in to catch the baby when it's "time!"

Though we were hoping to go visit my uncle, aunt and cousins today, obviously with them living 3 hours away that's not going to happen!  We're postponing the trip to next week when hopefully we won't have blizzard conditions stopping us!

~Elizabeth