Have things changed since 1970?

I was a junior nursing student in college when I wrote this paper after a clinical rotation in labor and delivery at Bellevue Hospital. I am newly 20;  young and so upset by what I had to see. Not one single nursing instructor ever talked to the nursing students about the brutality they had to.. read more →

A Birth Story.

This is birth story of a student in a Breastfeeding Peer Counselor training course; a story of common care in a teaching hospital told in her own words: “A woman was told to go to the hospital because her levels were no (sic) normal. When she got checked out at the hospital the doctor told.. read more →

A Ghost in a Nursing Relationship

SS gave birth to her second child, a son, Mark, who lived only 8 months. He was born with an inability to metabolize copper, a diagnosis reached only 2 months before his death. Some manifestations of his Meinche-Stilhaus syndrome. were neurologic; Mark never rooted well, and had a poor suck from the beginning. He never.. read more →

Belief versus fact

Research shows that facts don’t change beliefs. I have fought against beliefs that don’t make sense to me since I was a little girl. The responses to my different opinions have often been painful. As a  Jewish child I had rocks thrown at me by the neighborhood Catholic children for asking, “Doesn’t your God say.. read more →

After death.

Today, my daughter and son-in-law are at a cemetery for the unveiling of the new gravestone on the grave of his father and her father-in-law, George. Other family members are there too, thinking and remembering, and talking about George. Being at the grave of someone known and loved is a profound experience. One is flooded.. read more →

Postpartum Mood Adjustment Disorder

I volunteered at the Postpartum Support International exhibitor’s table at the Psych Congress in Nashville on September 9.  Psych Congress bills itself as “the nation’s number one conference on practical psychopharmacology.. . . This is a conference for psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psychologists, primary care physicians, and other mental health professionals.” Our table was.. read more →