New on my list of career’s I never want is midwife. Here’s the freaky story of a midwife who was bitten during labor and had to endure six months of HIV and Hepatitis tests. This is from the UK Daily Mail:
A young mother was jailed yesterday for deliberately biting a midwife who was helping to deliver her baby.
Leanne Pennington, 26, was in the final stages of labour when she sank her teeth into the forearm of experienced midwife Carolyn Burden.
Mrs Burden, 41, needed immediate first aid but bravely went back onto the ward to help Pennington give birth.
But the experienced nurse later had to endure six months of HIV and hepatitis tests because Pennington was a “high risk patient”.
I think that’s a nice way of saying she was a ho bag. Or drug addict. Or both. Anyway, the incident landed the 26 year old mommy in jail for assault. I’m assuming she didn’t experience this during childbirth.
Midwife Carolyn Burden says the experience has been a bit of an eye opener. Although it’s doubtful she’ll run across many homicidal mothers giving birth who turn into vampires during labor.