Medic Mama

My sweet, independent girl let me rock her tonight. She stopped wanting to be rocked to sleep around 3 or 4 months old. After several nights of her fighting us as we rocked, we simply put her down in her crib. She grabbed her lovey in her left hand, sucked the thumb on her right and went to sleep. That's how she has been ever since, save for a few nights here or there. Tonight she had been asleep for about 3 hours when she suddenly began to cry. Sometimes when she fusses in the night, I wait and see if she will go back to sleep and she usually does. But she got so upset so quickly that I went in right away. Sometimes you just know when they won't be able to calm themselves. Holding her and rocking, smelling her hair and feeling her little fingers on one hand play with my hair while she sucked her thumb on the other.  What a blessing that is! What a treasure these memories are. Midnight snuggles as you provide safety and security to this tiny person you created. It won't al...

I never wanted to be a paramedic when I was growing up. I had always wanted to be a teacher and a mom. But as I went through my schooling, I found that teaching wasn't my passion. So I kind of bounced back and forth a little bit as far as a major goes. I finally settled on kinesiology. I was at the end of my two years at Junior College and I needed a total of 12 units in order to stay insured under my mom's insurance. Looking through the course catalog, I saw that an EMT class was available and it would fulfill the exact number of minimum units I needed in addition to my chemistry class. I didn't know it then, but that was the beginning of the end. What they don't tell you in EMT class, is that if you love this job, you better not love money as well. You won't ever make a lot of money in this profession. What had started as just a class to fill the time became something I never knew I would love so much. I took multiple fire science classes and I ended up eventuall...

Hello! I figure most of the people reading this blog will be folks that already know me, but just in case, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mrs C and I've been a paramedic for almost 6 years. Three and a half years ago, I began dating my now husband, Mr C, who was then an ambulance medic and is now a fire fighter paramedic (about 14ish years in the field of EMS). We've been married for just over a year and a half and our family consists of our (my bonus) son J from my husband's first marriage, who is 10, our daughter C, who is 4 months, and our 3 year old dog Max (the dog doesn't get protection from internet weirdos). Over the years I have had many adventures, but I must say that marriage and motherhood are by far the most challenging, most important and most rewarding adventures of all. Before I became a medic mama, I used to love writing. Blogs, journal entries, short stories... you get the drift. But then work and family became my focus, writing wasn'...