Student midwife life can be super crazy. Often you work a full or part time job, or doula, and attend prenatals and births with your preceptor. Sometimes you get very little sleep. Sometimes you get the mom's urge of nesting and you clean your house in an entire night and then regret staying up so late. Sometimes you get so moody that no one (including your two young children and boyfriend) wants to be anywhere near you. Sometimes it's a combination of both with a dash of working and still attending births.
Like get up at 4:24am on a Sunday morning after having worked until 11pm the night before, attend a mom in labor, go check on another mom in early labor, head back to work at 3pm, go back out to this mom, leave for a few hours to get some sleep, head back to mom's house, leave for work, work till 11pm again and then attempt to drive back out to tear down the birth pool. At this point, you are really just relying on shots of 5 hour energy and B-complex vitamins. Oh and you get there to tear down the birth pool and the families dog (which is half coyote) wants to EAT YOU!! Yeah.
Sooo.. then you drive back home, in the dark, in the Midwest... yes, curvy dark country roads. With maybe eight hours of sleep at this point with a cold night demanding you turn on the heather in the car, even that 5 Hour Energy won't cut it. I am eternally grateful to the Universe for not sending any other cars down this road. I was all over it. I hit and killed a skunk even. No way I was dodging it. My reflexes where hacked at this point and I probably would be writing this from the hospital instead. I feel like I should go bury the skunk....
I'd double up on the 5 Hour Energy, except my urine was already neon yellow from all the B Vitamins coursing through my system. And you know, they don't recommend it.
**I am just a student who relies on the emergency energy of 5 Hour Energy. I purchase all my own.**
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