Life is Good
Apr. 19th, 2006 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
borgmama1of5I am still loving my job as a doula--someone who takes care of a new mom and her baby for 2 to 4 weeks. I finished my first lengthy stint with one client, and did an 'exit interview' with her on the last day. The mom said the best thing I did was when I would come in the door at 8 AM and call "Good Morning!" very cheerfully. She said she'd be sitting there exhausted from the night, holding the baby, and then the baby would hear my voice and smile and the mom would feel like everything was going to be all right. Can you believe that?! And when she told me this I thought, my goodness, I had to get up at 5 AM and drive for an hour, and I was so dead-tired that saying "good morning" was so hard...and it made all the difference to her! Wow.
I am onto my next client, for two weeks of strictly overnights. She emailed the office after a couple of days and said I was wonderful--and then her friend, who had suggested Birthways to her, also emailed the office to say she'd heard that her friend had a fantastic doula! And what is so weird is that I don't feel like I am doing anything really special. My friend Chris said that is what is so special, that being caring is so natural to me that I don't see it as something I'm trying to do, I just am. That made me feel awfully good too.
I swear, I feel so much like I am exactly right where I am supposed to be now, I keep having to stop and say, "wow, the universe really does work things out if you trust it." I feel like I am uniquely suited to be the 'wise woman' to the new moms, because I still remember the intensity and anxiety of new momhood while simultaneously I can see the big picture. It is such a cool place to be. And working with the babies has made me see in retrospect just how I got to where I am today as a mother. I instinctively am a reactor--I watch to see what the baby is telling me before I label what the baby is doing. I know I have done that since the girls got older, but now I see I must have been doing that all along.
It is so cool being 50!
I am onto my next client, for two weeks of strictly overnights. She emailed the office after a couple of days and said I was wonderful--and then her friend, who had suggested Birthways to her, also emailed the office to say she'd heard that her friend had a fantastic doula! And what is so weird is that I don't feel like I am doing anything really special. My friend Chris said that is what is so special, that being caring is so natural to me that I don't see it as something I'm trying to do, I just am. That made me feel awfully good too.
I swear, I feel so much like I am exactly right where I am supposed to be now, I keep having to stop and say, "wow, the universe really does work things out if you trust it." I feel like I am uniquely suited to be the 'wise woman' to the new moms, because I still remember the intensity and anxiety of new momhood while simultaneously I can see the big picture. It is such a cool place to be. And working with the babies has made me see in retrospect just how I got to where I am today as a mother. I instinctively am a reactor--I watch to see what the baby is telling me before I label what the baby is doing. I know I have done that since the girls got older, but now I see I must have been doing that all along.
It is so cool being 50!
