Yesterday, Tikki, an amazing Jack Russell gave birth to NINE puppies, probably a record number. Tikki, by the way belongs to my daughter's horse riding instructor, Geralyn. The puppies are healthy and fine.
Just three weeks ago, during Tikki's regular vet visit, her vet became concerned when she could not feel the puppies. Immediately, the vet, without a thought cut open Tikki to check for her puppies. Well! they were there and the puppies luckly ended up fine even after being exposed to the outside environment during that time.
It makes me wonder, if we have become so dependent on instruments that we stop trusting our own knowledge, intuition based on our experience to decipher some of the questions that we come across. For example, in the medical field when a nurse checks for blood pressure, should he/she have internalized to analyze the numbers that the machine throws out to see if they make sense or not. Also as we depend on a machine to tell us the measurements, do we loose the knowledge on alternative ways to check blood pressure that is not totally dependent on a machine.
Actually Bindu, I do believe that we are too trusting in the technology we use today. Maybe this is because in certain situations we don't feel confident enough to challenge technology. I am sure you agree when I mention that as mothers we know to trust our intuition..
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