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  1. How Has "Reality TV" (A Baby Story, etc) Affected Your Work?

    as a teenage doula-to-be-in-training, i figured i might have an interesting POV on this topic. it is as follows: gag. "a baby story." what a piece of work that show is. not the best at accurately...
  2. Do You Have Any Favorite OB Myths?

    i always heard that women carrying girls tend to have more morning sickness than women carrying boys...but as i recall, that may have actually had a factual basis (something to do with B12 count...?...
  3. apprenticing w/a doula?

    hey all- as if i haven't changed my mind about my future plans enough in the past eighteen months, now i'm looking into being a doula. i've been to dona.org and found three doulas in my area. my...
  4. Question about rectal exam

    i completely understand the embarrassment. i'm a year younger than you and i've been suffering with chronic pelvic pain for the past six months. one step in trying to find the cause was attempting a...
  5. Have you read about twins. 1 normal, 1 very small?

    sounds like twin transfusion syndrome (if it's not superfecundation, which according to my understanding, is much less common), to me, but since i know relatively little about ob by comparison to the...
  6. Loss

    my heavens. i am so sorry. my thoughts and prayers go out to you and this family. when i was six, an aunt of mine died in childbirth as well (baby too). it's just something you don't hear of often,...
  7. needing some advice...

    hi all- i was just curious to know your opinions about something. i read the boards all the time, but i don't post much, so to recap who i am: 17 y.o., considering L&D nursing as a career. i've...
  8. Questions about L&D

    i realize this thread wasn't started by me, but i appreciate the advice too, since i'm planning on going into L&D/postpartum nursing as well
  9. Moving in or just having a baby?

    i would definitely agree with cheerfuldoer about bringing blankets and pillows-i was hospitalized about three months ago and was never comfortable. (then again, it might have been the constant pain...
  10. Birth Control part of discharge teaching?

    i've seen the d/c papers from when my mom had me (almost 17 yrs ago) and, as someone before said (forgive me-i don't know names), they told her nothing lady partslly until her pp