Saturday, August 4, 2012

Guess who caught the first baby?

Yesterday Christian caught his first baby and was absolutely in love. He remembered everything about the parents and the baby's name and how much he weighed. I told him to be careful or he'll catch the fever and we can only handle one birth worker in this family (but who knows!?). He has his shelf exam - the exam after each specialty rotation - coming up so we're both spending the weekend buried in books.

First semester clinicals are winding down for me. I have learned so much and am starting to actually feel like a student midwife. I also love that I am now more helpful in the clinic than a pain in the butt. I take patients off different schedules and see them on my own, which really lightens the load for the other providers. I am so lucky to have been invited to stay at the same site for my second semester ambulatory care clinical (pretty much the same stuff as this past semester) - this means not having to re-learn a different EHR, not having to develop a new relationship with a different preceptor and provider. I am thrilled, I love my current site (and my many preceptors in this huge practice...I regularly rotate with 4 different midwives). I'm now just counting down to December when I get to start catching!!! AHHH! So exciting (and I can't believe that Christian beat me to it!).


3 comments:

Anna said...

That's so awesome. :)
i remember the first birth I watched in nursing school (slightly traumatizing!) and then my second I got to give the baby her first bath (the parents thought it was awesome because the baby and I shared the same name!)

From A Doctors Wife said...

That is amazing, and something he will never forget!
Link up this week at http://fromadoctorswife.blogspot.com/2012/08/medical-mondays-blog-hop-is-here_6.html
It is a blog hop for those involved directly or indirectly in the pursuit of medicine!

Your Doctor's Wife said...

So happy to find you through the MM BlogHop! I'll be reading more! ;)

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