DoulaCBE

Thank you. I thought that the ADR route would be the quickest. Thank you for your insight though. :nuke:

wow, it is so nice that others are in the same position as me. i am 28 and a mom of two little ones. i don't want to put anything ahead of my family. so, i was thinking of taking one pre-req class at a time and see how that feels. i may be able to put more on my plate. when they are both in school i will probably go to school full time. i am looking for a program in my town that offers the associates in nursing, but have yet to find it. why do some call it an adn? what does that stand for?

i love this question because it is also my own question. my husband is also in the military and i am wanting to become a cnm. we just moved to a new duty station and we are going to try to be here awhile. i was thinking about getting my asn and then doing frontier but i can't find a nursing program here that offers an asn. i wonder if i am looking wrong. all the schools here look like they only offer a bsn or higher. i am new to the nurse lingo so i could be missing it. thanks for the friendly help ladies.

No, but I hope to. I just moved to a small town in TX and there are no CNM's and 1 home birth midwife. Her and I are supposed to be meeting soon (she's been busy) and I would love to help her down the road. Right now I am not even doing births as a doula because of childcare, but someday. :)

I just joined allnurses today and love it. So much great information. I loved you ladies talking about different ways to help the mom birth naturally. I attended a birth in the hospital. When we got to the hospital mom was 5cm and only laboring for a couple hours. She was progressing well. They automatically brought in a bag of pit for her. She wanted to go natural. So, we told the nurse that she didn't want the pit. The nurse looked at us for a moment, and then closed the door for privacy. She told us quietly that she moonlights at a birthing center and she wanted to help us do this naturally. So, she just put the bag of pit down. Later as labor was progressing beautifully another nurse came in and asked our nurse if the mom was given pit. Our nurse told her she was just about to do it. She never did. :) She even told us that the MD that my client had was horrible with natural births and that he was also slow to get to the hospital. But, there was a great MD who worked well with moms. So, she waited to call my client's MD until she knew he wouldn't make it in time. And sure enough he didn't. So, she ran and got the other MD to "help" out and he caught the baby and was great. She was wonderful and made a lasting impression on me. Sadly, I don't have many of those experiences. I have been yelled at by nurses for "doing some sort of voodoo" to 'make' my client birth naturally. And I have been asked if I was a real doula or a fake one. :icon_roll So, naturally I have been a little hesitant as to which road I will take to be a midwife. I don't know though. Although I am scared of working int he hospital; other RN friends tell me that it's not what I imagine. I always thought that the MD's could boss RN's around and tell them what to do but they tell me that is so far from the truth. And lately I have been feeling the pull to be a CNM. I want to eventually open up a birthing center in this little town, but I would also like to be that provider who calms the scared mom or helps a woman have the birth she had hoped for. That's why I started looking into this site.

I live in a fairly rural area. I don't know. They don't think they are rural though. I just moved here a few months ago. They do not have an CNM's and only one home birth midwife. The midwife here tells me that the MD's have pushed the CNM's out of town. Since I recently moved to Texas I am not sure of it's laws as to if a CNM can have her own practice. But, I sure hope so!