Semi-annual update
So nursing school this semester consists of pediatrics and OB/labor & deliver. I spend Saturdays from 6:15am until 4pm at Valley Medical Center taking care of sick kids, and Wednesdays from 6:30am till 4pm taking care of very distended women and their new kids. A couple weeks ago I witnessed two C-sections, and last Wednesday I witnessed a regular vaginal delivery.
Yikes.
Ladies, whatever you do, if at all possible, avoid a C-section.
There certainly are benefits, like not feeling a damn thing, but I assure you, it's not a pretty sight. Especially when they take your uterus out of your abdomen, poke around and make sure everything is there and good, wipe it off, and put it back in. Oops, better put those intestines back in too. >_< It's extremely impersonal. Vaginal deliveries take longer and are more uncomfortable at the time, but I promise, both mom and baby are better off long term. If nothing else, the family can be involved (only 1 visitor in the OR, and they have to sit in a wheelchair because of too many faintings)
And practice your Kegel exercises; they help quite a lot with the delivery and recovery. I won't explain how here.
I'm still having fun in nursing school, except for our BS Process class ("Be nice to and understanding of people from different cultures, Semester 4"). At the end of last semester, I could finally see the light at the end of the tunnel; before that there was only the blackness of endless school work. So, now it's 14 months and 7 or so days until graduation, woot!
Yikes.
Ladies, whatever you do, if at all possible, avoid a C-section.
There certainly are benefits, like not feeling a damn thing, but I assure you, it's not a pretty sight. Especially when they take your uterus out of your abdomen, poke around and make sure everything is there and good, wipe it off, and put it back in. Oops, better put those intestines back in too. >_< It's extremely impersonal. Vaginal deliveries take longer and are more uncomfortable at the time, but I promise, both mom and baby are better off long term. If nothing else, the family can be involved (only 1 visitor in the OR, and they have to sit in a wheelchair because of too many faintings)
And practice your Kegel exercises; they help quite a lot with the delivery and recovery. I won't explain how here.
I'm still having fun in nursing school, except for our BS Process class ("Be nice to and understanding of people from different cultures, Semester 4"). At the end of last semester, I could finally see the light at the end of the tunnel; before that there was only the blackness of endless school work. So, now it's 14 months and 7 or so days until graduation, woot!