Classification essay - intro #3

There are people who think that the nurses on the maternity ward at EMMC have it so easy -- they get to hold babies all day long! I'm sure that they wish that this were true, but their job is to take care of the postpartum patient and her child. Usually, this is a happy job, but not always. Sometimes, there are high risk moms, desperate to carry a baby to term, who receive a memory box instead of a newborn baby. Thankfully, there is a much higher percentage of ordinary moms who get pregnant, come in, deliver a healthy baby, and go home. The last type, with a startling increase in numbers, is the woman addicted to drugs, who gives birth to a drug addicted baby that has to detox in a special unit. These three types of women make up the majority of the patient population on our floor.