What is good being a
medical student is that we can do things that people usually don’t and have
different kind of experience like able to enter a labour room. Does that sound
interesting to you? Well, it is for me! I was so damn excited and nervous
before I step into the labour room although I looked calm and steady outside
hah!
While walking to the
labour room, my mind was full with the movie or drama scenes like the beds and
floor were full with blood or the pregnant mother was shouting in pain
or the nurses were running in rush to get the blood pack and etc. (Yes, I knew my imagination was fantastic XP)
And so when I finally
entered the labour room, I was stunned for a few seconds and reconfirmed with
my friends that we entered the correct room because the labour room was so
quiet. I aspect to see a tenser environment but everything seems so different,
no one was shouting and no one was running. In fact, the pregnant mothers were
‘lining up’ patiently at the middle of the big labour room and wait for their
turn to deliver their babies. Not that the hospital are lack of rooms but the pregnant mothers were actually
waiting for their cervix to dilate to around 6-7cm then only they will be move
to the ‘real’ labour section. (FYI, normal delivery will start only when the
cervix dilated completely to 10cm)
Please take note that
this is a government hospital so don’t aspect there are private rooms for
everybody just like what have shown in the dramas. Ok la, I think there are private
rooms for the vips but I am talking about labour rooms for normal citizens
okay~! There are around 12 smaller sections in the big labour room where each
section was filled with the equipments and covered by curtains. Each section more or less looked like
this.
As I walked further, my
nose was suddenly hit by a strong bloody smell! It smelled like super duper heavy menses omg! Then
I enter one of the sections and I saw the nurse was massaging and pushing the
mother’s lower abdomen so that the placenta can be delivered out faster to
reduce the blood loss. (Oh yea the baby was out before that!) After that, she
put her fingers into the vagina and massaged the inner wall and kept repeating
the same process. Honestly, there were a lot of blood on the bed and I felt
disgusted at that moment. I walked away ASAP because I can feel my vomit reflex
was stimulated! Luckily I still able to hold back my lunch and didn’t vomit!
LOL! Can you imagine what if I really vomit? OMG!
After I feel better, I
walked to other sections and saw some of the mothers were still waiting for complete
cervix dilatation, some were shivering in pain (*sigh* heart pain), some don’t allow
us to enter and some were holding their freshly born baby with lots of love.
Then at the last section, I saw crowning!
Crowning is when the
baby’s head was out a bit like the picture shown above and then I stood there
and continue watching! The nurses were telling the mother to push! Push! And push!
Seriously they talked so loud and they will scold the mother when she made some
sound through her mouth. The nurses kept telling the mother don’t do it again
because she should save the energy to push the baby out. All my muscles were
contracted and I was all tensed up because the baby’s neck was enrolled by his
umbilical cord so it is better to deliver him out asap.
I was so damn nervous
and don’t even dare to take a deep breath while watching! At that moment I felt
so useless because I can do nothing but just staring at the mother! After a few big pushes, the
baby’s head was finally out and the doctors quickly cut off the umbilical cord so
that the baby can breath! The rest of the baby’s body was delivered smoothly as
the hardest part in delivering was the head.
When the baby was
finally out, his soft baby crying sound made me feel touched and it actually
sound so good to me! I got so many feeling at that time and I missed my mom
suddenly T.T~ (shy to say, I was so touched till I nearly cry *sigh again*) Anyway,
I really salute all the mothers out there and of course respects the
professional doctors and nurses.
After the new borns were cleaned, all of them were put in the cubicals. To be true, I don't find babies or children interesting before this, but since I watched the whole process of delivering, they look super cute to me now with their guava size head! I wanted to take a picture with them before I left but I don't think I can do so in the labour room XP. I spent almost 45
minutes in the labour room and felt lucky that I can learn so many stuff in
that short period of time. Out of all, the main moral story is that reality and
drama is totally different especially in medical field! Lol! (ok la not all but
most of it!)
Since this is my so
call ‘first’ post so I want to say something! I am not sure who are going to
read this and may be no one but I hope that if anyone of you are reading this,
please tell your mother how much you love her and prepare something for her on
your birthday because they suffered a lot to bring us to this beautiful world!
Anyway, this post will be a reminder for myself that if one day I already get
used to the patients and slowly lost my sympathy and empathy towards them,
please always remember my every ‘first’ experiences in hospital and remember
how I felt so that I can be a good and caring doctor all the time! (I know, if I
manage to pass my exams la!)
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Love, newbowl
