The Last Mon Standing

Doing “twilight” duties is really interesting, but what makes it really extraordinary this time is that we are assigned in Delivery Room.

In all delivery rooms, student nurses need to stay ready anticipating the line of women waiting for their turn to give birth inside. We compete among our groupmates for the case. We need to have five handled and five assisted deliveries on our graduation day. So we stay put and always on the lookout for our possible preys. YEAH.

Since I already had my handled case last Thursday morning at (6:30), I assumed that it would take a very long time for me to have another chance to get my third case (the first one was published here).

Actually, there is this joke in our school saying that the group that are assigned in delivery rooms during September are the most fortunate, since according to some this month tops the calendar in the number of birth rates a year… the children born in this month was supposedly “made” during the Christmas vacation… (Think about it… HOLIDAY SEASON plus COLD CLIMATE is equals to… people producing warmth under their cozy blankets behind lock doors).

Since it is not September (it’s December, supposedly people are making their September babies) it was not a surprise when my CI told us that while we were waiting for the two laboring women we can take the Vital Signs of the ladies in the OB Ward, Labor Room and Gyne Ward.

I teamed up with Jovelle and Chose to monitor the VS of a new born to make our work easier. She took the VS and I made the charting in the patient’s record (the child was in distress his Cardiac Rate dropped from 160-102).

Since our CI knew that were going to defend our Comprehensive Case Study this morning, she gave us time to sleep. But while I was trying to sleep, a lady was ushered to the labor room at 2. I was assigned to monitor her Vital Signs every hour. She was agonizing in pain when I came to her. I asked her if she felt that I should bring her to the labor room. She said yes. I asked her if she felt like defecating. She answered it’s positive. I told this to my CI and she instructed me to get the wheelchair. When I went inside the room wheeling with me the wheelchair, my CI and I were surprised that she was not around. It turned out that sghe was inside the comfort room… (ask me what she’s doing) defecating.

At 3, she complained the same sensation… sagain false alarm.

I was not able to sleep since the room’s lights were on, so Hanzel and I went outside and played my cellphone’s FM radio. Then one of the hospital’s utility guy went to us telling us that someone is giving birth inside the delivery room. I thought it was my patient so I woke up my groupmates and we changed to our Scrub Suits. Unfortunately, none in our group got the case since we took a very long time to change our uniforms.

After that lady,it was Hanzel’s client’s turn to give birth. She diligently waited outside….

I had the inkling that that was not her first time to give birth because she ordered Hanzel to stay put beside her and support her while she’s giving birth. She said that in her surest voice possible. She grabbed Hanzel’s hand and pushed it to her breast while she moaned to push herself to expel the baby.

I went outside sniggering.

and there where in found them, my client and her mother. She was almost in tears and told me that she already bled. I  tpold this to the midwife. The midwife doubted that she’s actually giving birth that time.  But the woman insisted so I took the wheelchair again and queued her in front of the Delivery room.

Seconds ran to a gozzillion of seconds… and the woman was in terrinle pain crying that she’s about to expell her baby. But the Midwife was stilll hesitant to believe her… so she take her to the labor room and measured the diameter of her vaginal dilation… it was just three centimeters… not yet….

I was not able to see her give birth, we rode the bus at 5:30 AM and went to school for our Case study defense… we defended it at 10…

PS The birth that I handled last Thursday morning, on Monday, I have some photos with it.