Happy Birthday!

July 24th!
I arrived at night shift at about 9:45 and caught a baby at 10:01! Another boy! Jr. Jeremiah. I don't know if I can say I officially caught this baby because the dad wanted to help. He use to work for the red cross so our staff allowed him to help. I put gloves on and delivered the head. The dad quickly stepped in to catch the body. He looked shocked after it was all over! He couldn't believe what he had just done. I stayed up all night doing their checks and paper work and were able to discharge them in the morning before 6am. They were so kind! The dad brought us all Jollibee at 3am! No one was awake but that didn't keep them from eating burgers and soggy fries at 6am.

One Happy Family!

Jr. Jeremiah

July 26th!
What a crazy, crazy day! I showed up at shift knowing I was last up to catch but that didn't keep my work load light. We had probably four postpartum patients and three labors. Not long after our shift started they transferred a patient and a new labor came in. I had only been on shift for 50 mins and found myself taking care of a postpartum patient and a labor! As our birth room was already busy it soon filled with several patients who had already delivered. It was BCG day (immunization) so all the patients who delivered in the last two weeks came in with their baby. After BCG several of them were in the birth room for a baby check or newborn screening! It was soooo busy! At one point I was trying to discharge my postpartum while my labor was very active and a baby check showed up. I tried to work quickly and when I thought I was finally done my baby check said she wanted new born screening done today not at her next check in two days. Another student kept and eye on my labor while I got the newborn screening done. A little after 12 I checked on my patient who was wanting to push. 1cm head was visible and my supervisor was nowhere in sight! I got ready to catch while another student went to find her. I heard her coming through the birth room yelling "Baby out!? Baby out?!"  She made it in plenty of time and after about 5 minutes I caught my first baby girl. Everyone was so busy that it was just me and my supervisor. We didn't have anyone to chart for us so we had to watch the clock and memorize when we did everything and chart it when we were done. We got everything done and the mom and dad were happy parents! Today was a special day because it was my first girl and it is also my birthday! Happy Birthday to us!

The Birthday Girls!

Random

The other night my roommates bought Durian to have after supper. It is the fruit of Davao. It is known to smell like dirty socks and in my opinion it tastes like it too. I was not a fan.

Slimy