I am going to win an Oscar !

I was assisting in a delivery a few hours ago, and I did the whole Happy Birthday singing, during some resuscitation etc....told the parents how handsome their new baby boy was but, let me tell you, he was truly a FLK(funny looking kid) at first I was a little concerned, because Mom & Dad looked pretty normal, but then the Dad's brother showed up along with the Paternal Grandparents and all my concerns disappeared:-)

I Love My Patients

My patients are cracking me up tonight again!

This is the second time in the past 6 months, while my patient was in labor and trying to push a 10 pound, 11 ounce baby out of her vagina-she grabbed my arm so hard and said, she was going to kill her husband::giggle::
It definitely did not help he was SCREAMING, "And Push, One, Two, Three", etc....

Public Service Announcement #321 again, she is not deaf, and neither was any other person in the room!

If I was him, I would sleep with one eye open because after she is sown back together again and gets up to walk around in the next few hours, she will probably give New Dad some pillow therapy!!

Goodbye

How to say Goodbye......

There is no easy way, Mothers are always more upset, mostly being because they knew their baby longer, the little kicks, movements and the funny hiccups.....I really dislike my job on days like today, with every infant my parents have lost---I feel as if a piece of myself goes with them.

Helpless and hopeless, I have no explanations for them and no words to comfort them come to my mind, just a wide-eyed nurse with the look of being caught in headlights.

If my job does not suck enough, try to imagine telling them it is time to let go........