Delivery in the carpark
One of the Trainee Interns, a friend of mine doing his Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) attachment here, got pulled suddenly by a nurse while floating around in the Emergency Department to the carpark outside. There he could see, in a normal sedan car just outside the hospital, a lady already starting the process of childbirth!!!
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Maintaining supreme calmness that I can only admire, the Trainee Intern delivered the baby right there in the car. (He must have been thankful it was a smooth second stage of labour, haha.) Using the delivery kit that the nurse had brought with her, he clamped and cut the umbilical cord, wrapped the baby up, and then sent for the lady and her newborn child to the birthing suite for the passing of the placenta.
How heroic! We now call this Trainee Intern “The Deliverer”.
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p.s. I still feel cold sweat when I recall this encounter I had when I did my O&G attachment!
Medicine trains your nerves, I say.
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Wow, so I guess it doesn’t just happen in the movies!
hey! yea, i suppose it does happen in real life haha. it is dramatic but i wouldn’t imagine it to be very comfortable (but as long as they are safe). poor car, too!
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What a peculiar delivery case. Here, we do home deliveries but never car deliveries. Haha!
beautiful process
i cannot imagine how scary and bloodly the picture of the process was, but it must be the happiest moment for the child’s mother.
ya, the birth of a child is quite magical – and if you learn about the physiology involved at the moment of childbirth – what makes the child breathe etc etc, it is even more amazing and awe-inspiring.
but that having said, watching the whole process can be a little “yucky” too haha…
OH, no! I cannot even think about that process. Too scary!