SINGMAGGIE-RN

I currently am an RN working in Ortho, but have done every MED-Surg thing out there for five years. The only problem is, is that I have only wanted to L/D since i got out of nursing school and have applied for many jobs with no luck. Now i have a child and work part-time and want to quit and do doula stuff or work with a midwife and get certified with home births and wonder if I my RN degree sort of sets me up for less work in obtaining my doula cert? I have already ready many books on birth, been to several births and then givin birth once myself. Any thoughts?

All I have wanted to do was delivery babies with no fault of trying. I actually got offered an L/D job right out of RN school, but I was moving to another state to start over because of a divorce. I had no idea that this was a fate sealing moment in time. Since then, I have been an RN for five years. I've been in Cardiac, Float Pool, and now Ortho/Neuro. I am so tired of this type of nursing and really want to be with women and families, doing what i was made for. I have applied for multiple L/D positions and the person with experience in the field always get hired over me. What do i need to do to give me an edge? Become a doula? Take fetal monitoring on my own? TAke NRP on my own? Frustrated, singmaggie-RN