Playing catch up...

This past Sunday, Amy & Suzie drove up to have dinner with me at Pure. They wanted to see where I worked so made they made the trek. I think they enjoyed the food. I know I did!! It was great to be able to visit with them.

Suzie took several pictures of us trying to get one of Amy without her "devil red eyes" so I was giving her horns.

Me & Amy after dinner

As always this has been a busy week with school. I had my first OB/Peds test on Tuesday and made a 92, so I was excited about that. I also have a test in Research tonight so I should be studying right now......but I'm not. That class content is SOOOOO boring. I have to read through the notes on the elliptical or something to keep from falling asleep or reading the same thing over and over.

Last Saturday we went over to the Gernatts to celebrate Colton's 1st birthday, we were a little late so I didn't get any pictures of him digging into his cake, however I saw him as he was about to get a bath and his whole body had cake/icing on it. I think it is safe to say he enjoyed his cake!! I can't believe he is 1, it feels like he has been around forever :-)

This past Friday I had my first OB clinical at Cobb Hospital. I was super excited, not only because we could wear real scrubs not our nasty white "I look like a big marshmellow" school nursing uniforms, but I was hoping we could see a lot of births. I was a little bummed at first because everyone but me (6 of us students) was assigned a patient, I was assigned to the float nurse. The float nurse "floats" around to all the births and is in charge of assessing and caring for the newborn as soon as he/she is born. Little did I know that I would get the most action of anyone. The first birth was a Hispanic woman, who spoke no english. This was her 3 child and she was only 21. She had no pain medicine and she hardly made any noise, she was amazing. I held her leg as she was pushing so I had a front and center view of the whole thing. As soon as the baby girl came out I went with the nurse and watched her do the assessment, this was helpful since I had only read about assessments never really done one before. I did get to give her a shot of Vitamin K and put medicine in her eyes, listen to her HR/respirations. I also weighed her and measured her height. I then put a diaper/shirt on her, swaddled her and handed her to her mom. I'm going to need to work on my swaddling technique :-) The second infant was already there when we arrived in the room. It was a little boy, and I was able to do the whole assessment/vital signs on this little man. The last one I was there during a lot of the labor process, from around 6 cm dilated til the baby was there. This was a 19 year old who was having her first baby. She had no family there, just a friend that spoke some english. I was able to see an epidural be placed.....and after that not so sure I want one of those, yikes! After the epidural, I was able to put in my first catheter which was awesome, especially since she couldn't feel it. I got to hold her leg while she was pushing as well. This one took a little longer in the pushing stage than the first one, and finally out came a big girl. She was 9 lbs 6 ounces and 21 inches long. She had a little bit of breathing problems at first, but we got those taken care of. I got to do the whole assessment/vital signs and footprinting on that one as well. I loved it! It was so much fun, which I'm sure there will be days when it is not, but it is so cool to watch a new life enter the world. It was different though, and a little sad I thought that 2 out of the 3 had no family there. I'm used to births being a big deal, that tons of family/friends are in the waiting room so excited to meet the little one. It was just totally different than what I had experienced in the past. Anywho, just wanted to share my experiences from the first day......I have more thoughts on my mental health clinical but that will have to wait for another day. Got to go study!!