This could also be called the potential interesting situations that arise when you are a Childbirth Educator.
I recently changed my screen saver to shuffle through pictures in My Pictures Folder. I didn’t think much of it. Until today.
Yesterday I got all jazzed up and made a Power Point Presentation for Class 3, Choices in Childbirth. I go over the pros and cons of IVs vs Heplocks vs neither, Continuous Fetal Monitoring vs Intermittent Monitoring, AROM (Artificial Rupture of Membranes – Breaking the water), pushing in Lithotomy Position (no pros there!) and tons of other choices.
So I made this new folder in My Pictures labeled Class 3 and have all these interesting pictures in there. Here are some. 
So today I am doing the dishes and glance over at my computer and see these images coming up. Intermingled with Easter Egg Hunt pictures of my boys.
I couldn’t help but start laughing.
HA! Though not birth related, it reminds me of why I don’t like having audio books on my iPod. The shuffle function is rendered ridiculous. I’ll be grooving along with, say, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and then it goes right into “Harry, Ron and Hermione went into the Great Hall . . .”. Same goes with opera – whatever vibe I’m enjoying gets comically shattered by random bursts of recitative with jaunty harpsichord accents.
This is hilarious! Laughing with you=)
My screen saver does the same thing! It makes for interesting conversations! I did, at least, take my graphic birth pics off…
LOL! Happened to me, too! I then made a folder separate from the rest for “screensaver pix” — no more lithotomy positions mixed in with birthday pix for me! 🙂
Question for you–when you cover pros and cons of IV vs saline lock, do you also cover no IV access at all? I hope so–otherwise you’re basically telling women that they don’t have any choice but to have some kind of IV access. I know it’s a choice that not a lot of hospital-based providers will even “let” you make (having no IV access at all, that is) but it’s important that parents know they don’t “have” to have one at all.
I’ve also had to move some of my pictures into a separate folder so they don’t accidentally show up on my screen saver.
YES! I also cover no IV. I’ll go edit my post and say that. It is rare for hospital’s in my area to “allow” that. But some of my students have done it. 🙂
I certainly cover the fact that is an option, but admit it is harder to acheive in a hospital. I use it as a way to demonstrate the beauty of birth center and home births! Less regulations.
That’s so funny! I had the same thing happening, you know, breastfeeding pictures of previous clients and such. So I had to move those pictures outside of My Pictures folder so that guests would not be unexpectedly seeing pictures of other women’s boobs. Haha. The life of a doula.