Breakthrough Day!

Gosh!! Is it windy where you are? We're in the middle of some weird storm with high gales. I mean the tree's on my property are bending over! I hope they don't break. Esp. my Tree of Life =).

So I've stayed in today and worked on my photo's. I had a bit of post processing breakthrough and I wanted to share a small bit of it with you.

Here is my granddaughter Madilynn without the splotchy baby acne =)

And her darling sister Hailey =)

I Could just Scream!

Aghhh. I did the unthinkable. I went to my daughter's to take photo's of her precious little girls and forgot to check my camera settings. So when I downloaded the photo's I did get to my PC and took a quick look I saw how rough they looked. ISO 800.

And I did another BAD thing. I didn't charge my battery. Didn't think I needed to. And so halfway thru my session the camera shut OFF.

So remember. Check your battery and setting before doing any photo work. Always. Even when you don't think you need to.

I might be redeemed tomorrow. I'm going back to take some more pics. I'll let you know how they come out.

Keep Trusting Your Instincts

Lesson learned the other night. Listen to your heart.

Woman comes up from triage at 2cms BUT very uncomfortable. After about 45 mins I am able to get the anesth. doc to give her an epidural on her request. No relief. None. Hmmm. She had just been checked downstairs. She was a Primps. First time mommy. So you would not expect anything to happen quickly...

I am sent home early because of quiet night. It's 3:30am. I go into my moms room and take out a pair of sterile gloves. I wanted to check her before leaving...just in case there has been progress. Charge Nurse with 25 or more yrs experience comes in the room and says.. "what are you doing?" I explain I was going to check her. "Newp don't. She's probably 4cms". This Charge nurse is Very bossy and intimidating and when she tells you Don't, well you don't lol.

I start giving report to the oncoming nurse Jen. I see her strip out of the corner of my eye. There are little humps on her contractions. That means pushing is happening. Hmm. "Jen look". I explain to her what happened with bossychargenurse. But I say to Jen. "I just have this feeling...lets go in together. You check her. But I want to know before I leave."

Well Jen introduces herself and pulls her gloves on. You Had to be there to see the look on her face as she sweeps her fingers around the cervix. Yip. You guessed it. There is NO cervix lol. And when Jen says "look" and points to the perineum...I see hair!

So we jump into action. Call the Primary doc and get the resident there asap!

So this primps mom went from 2cms to 10cms in about an hour and a half. Unheard of..but sometimes happens.

I looked at meanchargebossynurse as I clocked out but didn't say anything. I knew it. I should of stood up to meanbossyintimadatingchargenurse. But I doubted myself.Not again I won't. I will keep learning to trust my instincts.

Even tho I'm a newbie. =)

I Love My Bed!!

Well I've had 4 days off.

Which means 4 nights of sleep! I go back in tonight at 7pm and work tonight and tomorrow night. I love some things about working at night...ie: no management lol.

I love the women I work with. And the more laid back feeling. But I love my bed.

Hubby laughed at me last night as I tucked my feet into my cold sheets. I said.."Mmm I Love my Bed!!". He said "yes you do don't you." Don't know why I said it. Just felt so good. Cold sheets again'st my skin. Window open a bit to let the cold night air in. Somehow it's just about perfection! Working nights makes me appreciate my nights I get to sleep even more.

I love my bed!

Super Hero Photo Challenge

...at Shutter Sisters.
http://shuttersisters.com/



We were challenged to find the beauty sitting right before our eyes. In our kitchen! I took scads of photo's of this and that. But this one jumped off the page at me. So I submitted it =)

I had washed dishes and left the water sitting. I know. Bad girl. Oh well I had things to do..ie: catch up on my blog reading and flickr loading lol. So after I read the challenge I headed downstairs with trusty canon in hand. There was my sink. With the sponge floating. And I thought Why Not!

Pop over and read a bit on the above site. I promise you won't be disapointed! Laters!

Swan's.

The swan's are back for the fall! This was taken at our local stream. The swan's are still skittish. But soon they're venture close to the bank. I'll be waiting with Canon in hand =)

Enjoy your Friday!

A Patience Flower..

An abject lesson in patience is the flower outside our doorway

planted when the spring was young watered,

tended, nurtured through the spring, the summer,

into the cooling of fall bursting into a single bloomin

the middle of October just days before frost

will come into our world

Watching over this flower,

waiting for its blooming

wondering what fruit

it will bear all summer long

by Raymond A. Foss

~Light Nights or Night Lights~

I just love a good sunset. And the evenings here lately have just been spectacular! So I have been snapping and trying to capture the feel of the light thru the trees and off the water. I thought I'd share some before crashing into bed this am lol. I'll be back with L&D storys later I promise!!

Au Natural~ Again!

I had a fabulous mom last night who decided to go Natural with her childbirth. I tell ya! There just aren't many women willing to go that extra mile and decline the epidural these days!

They know I like the natural ones..cause its how I birthed my baby's. So I usually get those mommy's. And I love it!

This mom was a first time mother and determined to go without medication. I asked her why and she said she just didn't want a needle stuck in her back; and she was afraid of the side effects of the epidural on her baby. Her dad asked me what his first grandchild felt like when I did the vag exam. He asked for my name again and said he wanted to remember the name of the first person to have her hands (or fingers) on his lovely wee one. I was touched..

Good points mom! Sorry girls. I know its the popular way to birth these days..and I Have been convinced by more than a few that its appropriate for some situation. But I'm not convinced there isn't risk that we don't know about......now. I'm thinking that one day they will come out with some facts that will scare the crap out of us. Ok so call me crazy. It's just what I wonder about.

So anyway her labor went wonderfully. She came to me at 1am at 5-6Cm's and was 8-9Cm's by 7am. She sat upright (HF) in the bed and was able to walk around her room and go to the bathroom. She breathed thru her contractions and her family was there to rub her back and encourage her. She was just so IN control it blew my mind! I kept the praise up to her and told her what a wonderful job she was doing. At some point when I told my fav OB resident that the pt. was the poster child for natural childbirth, the resident said.."Oh no You're the poster child lol". She knows about my large chubby baby's =)

I was disappointed to leave this am. I hope she had a fabulous birth this am and I can't wait to see how she did.

Women you CAN DO IT!!!

Come Play!

One of my fav blogs and bloggers is http://www.dolcepics.com/

She is a fab. photographer and amazing person! She has this game we play each week where we take a photo off her site that she's posted and we umm..well we Play with it. We do whatever we like!! This is my take on the spooky fall door.