Summer Mentorship Component

1. Summer Mentorship Log

2.  Natural Birth Center and Women's Wellness
     Simona Istrate, CEO and Certified Nurse-Midwife
     Phone number: (562)696-2313 or (562)282-6364

3.  Questions that raised up:

• Do I still want to attend San Diego State University or should I take a look at the pathways the midwives at the birth center took?
• Is this a career that I truly want to pursue because midwives have no work schedule they are on call 24/7?
• Would I enjoy being a midwife at big hospital or would I want to start my own office like Simona?
• Would I enjoy focusing on hospital births or water/ at home births?
• Do I want to be a midwife or a doula?

4. The most important thing I gained from the mentorship at the birth center was the first hand insight. I was able to see how the working enviroment for midwives is and the different things they do. I was able to get a better understanding of how things work in the women's wellness department.

5. My senior topic is going to be Midwifery. Doing my summer mentorship at the birth center helped me determine this because I has able to work closely with midwives and learn more about what a midwife is and does. The birth center helped me by giving me the first hand experience and I really enjoyed it.