Tuesday, 05 August 2008

• Things I learned from Anne Frye

  Ok, I know I said I was shutting this blog down but I had to do this post on here because hardly anyone is reading my new one yet. Plus this is midwifery related.

  I have been reading Holistic Midwifery II in preparation for the NARM, and I am learning all kinds of cool things. Here are a few highlights:

  * Playing the bass may cause you to have a bowel movement.

  * Cats like to eat placentas, but only if the baby is healthy.

  * It is abnormal for newborns to have a unibrow.

  * Your midwifery kit should be roughly the size of Texas and should include a chin up bar, a computer chair, a deBy birthing stool and a sharp knife (as well as many, many other things). I can just see this little conversation as the midwife unpacks her knife. Parent: "Uh...what's THAT for?" Midwife: "Oh, I use it to slice up the placenta. Would you like yours filleted or diced?" HAHAHAHA! I think if there is truly a need for cutting the placenta I will just buy a knife off of the parents instead of carrying one around. I wouldn't want my midwifery kit being confused for kidnapping gear.

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