Obs

This week, I work the 11pm-8am shift at the birthing center and answering consults in the ER.

My first week in Obs, I almost got amniotic fluid all over my shoes, I got sprayed with umbilical cord blood and had maternal blood splashed all over my scrubs when the placenta came out.

We had a baby born on the bed just minutes after we saw a lady and decided she was nowhere near delivering. We heard the nurse screaming over the intercom for help, but by the time we ran back to the room, the baby was lying on the table between the mum's legs, still attached, crying.

I had one lady look at me halfway through my questions with fear in her eyes and saying to me "I NEED to push and I don't know why!"

I watched one dad start crying when the baby delivered and his first words with his daughter present were "oh fuck!" Minutes later, watching her on the resuscitation table he looks at the mum and points to his chest and says "that's mine!"

I've seen fathers scramble from the baby to the mum and back not sure who to pay attention to.

I'll have more stories for sure, probably even by tomorrow.

Off to work