It finally happened...

I worked in the Maternity unit at Riverton Hospital yesterday. When you go to a new place to work- which I do as a float pool employee- everyone wants to get to know you. I appreciate that it gives me a chance to get to know the people I am working with too.
Whenever I have worked in a maternity unit the first question always seems to be "Do you have kids?" (This happens in other units too but not usually the first question.)
My canned response is "No... but we are trying." This response typically gets a "good luck" or "oh" and more questions some which include how old I am or how long have you been married?
Well yesterday was the first time EVER that I have got this response...
"If you just relax you will get pregnant. I mean seriously I know so many people that once they quit trying they were able to have kids...like bam they were pregnant with twins and everything."
This was from someone that I was working with, she is also a CNA. I tried to calmly explain to her that "relaxing" wasn't going to help us because it was physically impossible for me to get pregnant without medical intervention. She then said "I assure you that if you could just relax about it you can get pregnant!"
I decided this conversation wasn't going to go anywhere good and I was going to just end up more annoyed and possibly tell her off so I just got up and walked away. My telling her off would have included- "well I wish I would have met you a year ago because all the money we have been paying a fertility specialist wouldn't have gone to waste to learn that I just needed to RELAX! I'm so glad that your one year of nursing school and 1.5 years working on a mom/baby unit have made you an expert on the matter since here you see the happy end result of "just relaxing"!
Now on the other hand the patients I had yesterday were fantastic and it makes me even more excited to start working on the Maternity unit at American Fork Hospital. It is so fun to watch a new mom and/or dad love on their baby. One dad specifically yesterday just made me want to cry with the way he talked to his little one. I needed to check the baby vitals so I asked dad to put the baby in the bassinet for me. He was so nervous and looked at her and said "I promised daddy is going to get better at this." It was the sweetest thing I have ever seen.

Until next time...