Out of Focus - the diary of a student radiographer.

Sunday, February 29, 2004

Making babies

I just looked back at my blog and I could have sworn I mentioned somewhere that I work as a Healthcare Assistant in the maternity dept of my local hospital. Well, I can't find it, so I guess I didn't.

I work as a Healthcare Assistant in the maternity dept of my local hospital. When I first took up the job, Adam's colleagues ribbed him about it, saying I would get all broody being amongst all those babies. Well, I can tell you now there is no chance of that. Working in maternity is an excellent way to put you off having babies for life. I honesty wonder why anyone bothers. So I am going to offer a service - anyone reading this who is undecided about whether to have a baby, can come to me to be thoroughly put off the idea. I shall offer no further details here, as there may be men reading. Men tend to not be happy to read about the gorier things in life, I find.

We get a nice range of clientele through the doors here. Not too many of your green welly brigade but plenty of nice, ordinary people, our fair share of Chatham Girls and a few women so hideous you wonder how they got a man to go near them long enough to get pregnant. Some people are a bit odd. Yesterday evening there was a couple who had their 2 year old daughter in the delivery room with them while the woman gave birth. I felt sorry for the poor kid as her mother was screaming loud enough for the whole ward to hear. Then they wanted to go home in the middle of the night - the midwife was quite appalled at someone wanting to take a newborn baby outside on a night forecast to be about minus four degrees. I think they were persuaded to stay the night.

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