Today's call started out easy enough...then there was a delivery...then another...and another. It happened all day long. It's insanely hard to get any work done on the patients that you have when the babies keep rolling in. Luckily I had some good friends here that took pity on me and helped me keep up till the day was over. During the afternoon (the babies were still raining down) the attending had to take some time off for a funeral. He got an attending to cover, but there were so many deliveries, we had to split up...so I was flying solo for most of the afternoon. It was crazy knowing there was no safety net for me, if there was a problem the responsibility fell on me to fix it. Luckily the worst that happened was a baby had a little meconium (baby poop) down it's throat and I had to suction it out with deep suctioning, which I'd only done once before with someone watching me...luckily I performed it and managed to look like I was in control and knew what I was doing the whole time...so lucky. I then picked up the baby after it was stable and delivered it to a smiling momma, it was really cool to see her face light up when I told her how she had a perfectly healthy baby boy. I then had to relate all we did to the OB and then I stepped out of the room to do charting (at which point I heaved a huge sigh of relief - out of sight of everybody). It was fun, I can't wait till I'm much more experienced and can do the whole solo thing no matter what the momma throws at me :)
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