Do You Want Some Water?

This. Cannot. Continue.

But - on a more hopeful note. One of my classmates from nursing school - “Mandoula” -  beautifully advocated for his laboring wife, and pretty much had to fight off aggressive interventions, in a hospital that was so accustomed to medically extracting babies with no regard for the woman’s body. He is a gentle, soft-spoken man, who needed to protect his wife from doctors who yes, tried to bully them. It shouldn’t have been so hard for her to have a good birth. If I had to fight this hard for every good death…..well, shit.

“No matter how many times they call me ‘thunder thighs,’ I’ll never be ashamed of my body… Loving my body has really given me the greatest satisfaction of all.”