Experience of a midwife: you Can also clean?

A large part of the midwifery training is clean. And does it really clean. It was only years later I realized how important this basis. At the time, I felt the youthful, arrogant thinking, as harassment of my Person.

Since I grew up with parents that have done a lot of work, I had to clean the house and was prepared for this part of the training well. I thought. Far from it, as a twelve-foot-square room in the delivery room clean has nothing to do with the home Clean. All wipeable surfaces must be cleaned first with a hot soap solution, then with clear water, then with disinfectant nachputzen. All wipeable surfaces! This takes about two hours.

The “once one of the net-making” to learn

Our “Maid”, as we called them at home, always had to wash with soap in the kitchen. From her I learned the “once one of the net-making” (as you called it) and my first cooking experiments. My first puff of a cigarette, and the first little SIP of mom’s cognac bottle came from her.

This reminds me of a story with a Couple, both from the old noble family originating. They had water in the night before with me in the place of birth is a beautiful and peaceful birth. I showed up after a few hours of sleep for the first postpartum visit. They lived in a bright Loft in the middle of it. The case of a home visit, I see a lot of means and taste, and also the bedroom. So also here.

Intensive advice on home visit

This is the first home visit of at least A4-pages-long list of questions already finished. Kita-acclimation included. Here, it was to prioritize loving the questions. Not always easy, but doable. These lists of questions to show how much this first time highlights with a Baby in the lives of young parents from the fishing.

After almost ninety minutes for a home visit I found the Bounce back to the exit door. The boy’s father walked me in silence, and stopped. Is there anything else, I thought.

Then he sat down and took a deep breath: “So, we want to say that We are very unhappy with your service.” Wow. Now it was out. Okay. Take a breath. Communication competence. I answered: “Give me Feedback please, why you feel you are in good hands, then we can look to see how we can make it better.”

The bit budget…

Inwardly I thought, Really, and after almost 1.5 hours duration of the meeting? His answer: “We would have been pleased, if you could also touch a bit in the budget with.”

I wasn’t ready. I needed an eternity to find a professional answer. Slowly and with a firm eye contact, I explained to him in a friendly way, I’d love to come to the house to visit and in the Morning bread rolls bring. Very much I worry about the health of his wife and newborn daughter. Really very fond of. The management of the household, however, is not the role of the midwife. I was happy, said I, to help in the search for a financial force that takes over then these tasks.

He replied that they would have a Maid who comes every day for three hours and everything. This had you but cancelled for this time, because I would do it well. He thought so.

Now I understood this complete Overload of the boy’s father, who had filled never in his life, a washing machine, and probably with a bulging fridge would starve, because he had simply cooked never. I also understand that his statement had nothing to do with my Person or my actual work as a midwife. Obviously, the midwife was in the rank of “staff”. I don’t think he understood the difference, but he turned away and said goodbye. If only he knew how well I clean’ve learned.