An Experience Worth Sharing

So about a week ago I was as work in labor and delivery as usual. It was a relatively calm morning and things were going fine. A women (and her husband) come in and she looks like she's really hurting with the contractions. (Sometimes you can just tell when they're really bad.) Since I currently only had one patient I assumed I would be her nurse and she would be my second patient. I could just tell things would move quickly so I went directly into her room to get things started and check her dilation.

As I walked through the door her water broke. That was another sign things were moving quickly especially because this was her fourth child. So I asked her to lay down on the bed after her contraction ended so I could check her. We really needed to know how far she was and what the timing would be like before delivery. So she kept saying "I CAN'T SIT DOWN, I CAN'T SIT DOWN!" At this point my adrenaline started flowing and I knew it wouldn't be long. So she finally sits down on the bed and the baby's head delivered. No doctor was around because things went so quickly so I through on sterile gloves and proceeded to deliver the baby. I clamped the cord and cut it while stimulating the baby's back and drying it off. My hands were shaking and other nurses were around to try and help out.

So in the end both mom and baby were perfectly healthy. I learned a lot about delivering a child and now I can say that i've done it. I don't hope to do it again anytime soon though. A few nights later I had nightmares about it happening again. =) You can tell what was on my mind. =) Well that's my exciting story and I hope you enjoyed it.