I was able to help deliver another baby
today! It was much quicker than the first one but there was a
problem. When the baby was about two inches from crowning, the mother
was too tired to keep pushing. Like the last birth, the midwives and
nurses took turns pushing down on the womb to help the mother.
Eventually the baby came out, but it wasn't crying and it's skin was
blue. In about 45 seconds, the doctor clamped and cut the umbilical
cord, put the baby on a table, started CPR, and used a bulb syringe
to clear the babies nostrils. Luckily, the reliving doctor was
already at the hospital so she was called in to suction the babies
nose while the first doctor began stitching the vagina. I'm not
certain, but I think it was another MAS baby because the procedure
for helping the baby breath was the same as last time and the fluid
being suctioned from the lungs and stomach was roughly the same color
as the first delivery I experienced.
After the birth, the reliving doctor
was called to the ER/OPD in order to perform stitching on a pediatric
patients lip. It was challenging to say the least because the child
was extremely scared and wouldn't keep still. The doctor ended up
injecting him with a sedative, but the parents still had to help hold
him down.
Other than that, just a lot of OPD
patients for flu like symptoms. It is, after all, flu season.
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