Finally some sort of happy post, i guess.....
Past four weeks of my elective attachment in XXH was like some of the longest days where they creeped by so so so so slooooooowly. With tonnes of other things to focus, I didn't quite enjoy the attachment as I expected it to be. The posting was in O&G, due to lots of limitations. I thought we were just flower pots in the wards looking nice, smiling away to mothers and babies. Other than talking , we were speaking with mothers. True! 4 weeks of talking and smiling. Luckily the staffs were kind enough to babysit us.......
Finally , it had came to an end today.
Big things never comes when you expect it.
Today, today I had my first hand experiences in delivery. Dare not say conducting a delivery, for some of reasons, we are not even allowed to even touch it !(this was an emergency)
Wanna know why? because some individuals thinks that there are more important things to attend to than to attend a woman in labour, then coming in late giving lame reasons according to their previous reasons. Anyway, I was grateful that there were people like that , if its not because of their *ahem* attitude, I might not get the experience today =D
What happened was.....
"wanna do artificial rupture of membrane arr?? "
"yar, bring the kidney dish"
"ok"
brings the kidney dish, and she starts digging into the 8th wonder of the world.
a huge round of pulling , screaming and comforting. pulling , screaming and comforting.
"err, cant la , its ok , just leave it as it is"
"ok"
2 secs after she left
splash!!!!! why so yellowish ??
" membranes already ruptured!!!"
" os already full, be careful"
an enormous round of screaming and pulling, and screaming and pulling
lifts up the gown, huh?? whats that yellow bun doing there, looks closely
"BABY'S HEAD!!! BABY'S HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
grabs the pad and guard, trembles........ . actually it was like just placing the pad under the 8th wonder of the world, pressure???? not so ........
And the wiser one comes in and take over....
was still trembling ..........
baby was all out, crying his lungs out.....
All the above happened in less than 3 minutes, I was still trembling .....
Unfortunately, there was still a second degree tear.
Why ? because everything happened too quickly and it wasn't guarded properly.
The right thing to do was: To guard harder and try to push the head low.
Thankfully, the person who is suppose to do all the above was finally there to repair the damage.
This was the biggest lesson I had for the entire attachment. And it only happened on the last day.....
Lucky me, I didn't had any training for these but I had a feel of it.
Thinking of it sends shiver down my spine.
Well , its time to reconsider on what I've thought all these while, one month wasn't enough to convince me.....
