3 in 36

There was a week and a half time frame in which I wasn't called in for any births. But then BOOM - three in thirty-six hours.

We had one mom in on Monday. I didn't need to assist in that birth, but I went anyways for observation. I'm glad I did because I got to witness another cool maneuver for sticky shoulders.

On Tuesday, the midwife called me at 5am and told me it was going to take her 40 minutes to get to the Birth Center. The woman sounded pretty far along over the phone based on her contraction pattern. So could I please come right away. I got to the center just as the midwife was checking her, at 6:00am. Gulp. 4cm. She had a ways to go. Well, she had that baby around 7pm. Yes, a long day for everyone involved. Just as I was getting ready to discharge them, another mom walked through the door basically wanting to push. Yowsers! Glad the midwife had just downed a large cup of coffee! I just stayed for that birth, did clean-up for the earlier one, and then another assistant came in to stay with that mom for the night. I got home at about 3am.

So that was the first part of my week. Busy. Yesterday and today are being spent on school work. I got suggestions back on my thesis from some of my advisory committee members. Also, I had a friend go over it with me who seems to be a writing genius. So today I am re-working, re-wording, re-thinking a lot of things. This process is not near done. I am still hoping to defend my thesis in December so that it is done and over with by the new year. Then I can just plow away at practical stuff and course work.

Jon gets to go to New York next week. The US is bidding for the World Cup in 2018 or 2022. So now US cities are bidding to be venues for the games. To do this, I guess representatives go to New York and make their city seem like the best. Jon has to talk about the sustainability efforts of the city, especially for the new sports venues that are being built. There is some tough competition - including three other Florida cities - but he thinks they have a good shot... Orlando hosted in 1994 and had the highest attendance. But I will spoil the surprise, we will not, I repeat, WILL NOT be living here during the games. Still, it's cool that he gets to go and do this. He has friends in NYC so will be staying a couple extra days to hang with them. Yes, I am jealous, but I have a thesis to finish. :)

One last thing. I totally forget the context for this comment, and what we were talking about, but one of the people in our LIFE group (through Church) said this last night: "Maybe that's why liberals are such killjoys." Huh? Jon put a huge grin on his face and goes: "I'm a liberal. And I'm FULL of joy!"

I hope that's how you feel today, no matter what people say about you -- FULL of JOY!