I saw my first live birth. Cries, pain, swearing, more cries, pain, contractions, a baby cry, blood, more pain, placenta, more cries.
Yep that about sums it up. Labor and delivery is a strange experience. It's pretty incredible to see a new life entering the world.
It was a girl!
I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but we made it through. Everyone was doing well. I got a call in the evening from my MD who told me a patient came in at 7 cm cervix dilated already. Several hours later, her baby was born.
Afterwards, the nurse asked me if I had any kids followed by "after that, do you want any?" Maybe someday several years from now.
Today as I mentioned I saw my first C-section. 15 pounds of twin boys came out of that operation! Wowza! That's a lot of baby.
3 babies in less than 1 day. Not bad for a small town hospital.
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