it's a girl! =)

I'm so shocked! I still can't believe how it felt in the battlefield yesterday when I got to do an actual baby delivery via NSD!

Currently, I'm on duty at the OR in LPDH, and I'm loving it! oh, the thought of just being in a place exclusive to healthcare professionals (I mean, not even patients' relatives are allowed to enter this realm, and yet, here we are)... plus, I just love seeing surgeries! I used to see these stuff only on tv documentaries, special videos from doctors whom I've got connections with, etc... but never have I seen an actual "live" operation happening right before my very eyes! And that's what's happening with the OR: surgery galore! woooo!

Unfortunately, I'm assigned to the 2pm-10pm shift so nothing much happens then as most ops occur in the morning shift but just yesterday, Maricar and I heard a woman was being prepped for NSD... I informed tita Joy, she and I asked our CI if we could observe. Our CI said: "observe? No. that's your case!" Wooohooo! alright! We informed Maricar and we waited for things to happen. We observed the woman in labor. As crowning happened, the nurses there called the client's OB (who so happens to be the tita of a friend of mine) to inform her that the patient is ready to give birth. Upon the doctor's arrival, she immediately asks us student nurses who wants to scrub in. She asked for one of us three. Maricar told me to go ahead and scrub in. I looked at tita Joy and told her to do it (as I'm not really into deliveries.ick.) But she told me I should do it. I signaled to her that she ought to take the case. Suddenly, our CI made the final decision and told me to go and be the one to scrub in. WHAT?! well, I couldn't say "no" now, it wouldn't seem proper. So, fine, I scrubbed in.

I thought the farthest I would go in this case would be to actually hand the various instruments the doctor would need but no,... things got farther, and farther, and farther. I was asked to clamp the cord (fine), then place another clamp on the cord (fine), then I was asked to actually cut the cord! (thinking this was the end, fine). All of a sudden, the doctor stood up and told me to take a sit in the chair she was seated in (uh-oh, this can't be good... but fine) and then she tells me to go ahead and deliver the placenta (WHAT?! so much for my first time!)! Anyway, shocking as it was, and panicky as I seemed to be, it was an overwhelming feeling to get to experience such thing. =)