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Hi I am a student midwife… I wrote a
few weeks ago about the first baby I caught… a Ceasarean! But finally
yesterday I had the big moment… caught my first baby from a real
birth. Wow! That was some buzz. Only a week tiny 34 weeker
and came out so quick! I did literally catch it. One of the odd things, was that I caught
the baby, and the Obstetric registrar, who was also present, drew up the
syntometrine and put up the bag of synto. (MUM had had a previous PPH and
did bleed quite a bit) Seemed like a reversal of roles. I have been
reading about interprofessional cooperation… nice to see it at work.
It was a pretty amazing day in Birth suite
really. Almost as exciting was the vaginal breech I saw delivered earlier
in the day. That was a bit of a surprise really, the mother presented in
advanced labour, going along very quickly, 3rd baby. The midwife
called for help as she had mec liq… and as I rang the NICU reg she
realised that she had a bottom presenting. Too late for a Caesar, and
quite rapidly delivered a lovely little girl. I suppose I wont see too
many of them, since they routinely deliver breech babies here by caesarean. I have had a great week… lots of
vaginal births, lots of great experience. I am so relieved after my week
of caesareans last month, I was beginning to wonder if I really wanted to be a
midwife. Now I can remember why I wanted to do this! Lindsay |
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