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| | Belly Tales » Hospitals |
 | | She wants the ritual of birth in a hospital, the rite of passage we’ve developed: the hospital gown, the epidural, the painful stitches and ice packs afterwards, the grandparents and husband looking so cute as they peer at the baby through the glass of the nursery wall. |
 | | I worked in Labor and Delivery at a large metropolitan hospital for 1.5 years (which I will refer to as Tried and True Hospital, for the purposes of this post), and now, as of tomorrow, I will be working for a different, somewhat smaller metropolitan hospital—let’s call it New Hope Hospital. |
 | | We’ve got hospitals all over the city that are delivering a third of their babies by c-section. |
| www.studentmidwife.org /category/hospitals (2768 words) |
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