AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
It was so amazing.
I almost started crying.
What a feeling.
It was a C-Section, which amazingly I didn’t find gross in the slightest. We lifted the baby girl out – she was only at 32 weeks - and I think I had my jaw on the floor.
I’ve never been so in awe in my life.
She started crying within 30 seconds, and for some reason they let me determine the APGAR score (as the doctor put it – “we don’t have litigation here, so you may as well go for it.” ) They handed me a stethoscope and taught me how check the little thing’s heart and lungs.
I’m on such a high.
The craziest thing – we didn’t have any lights in the operating room or the adjacent rooms. And yet it was the first time that I could actually see why people DO this – come down here to the Third World and work in situations with virtually nothing. You can still make it work as long as you’re resourceful, and doing so successfully feels AMAZING.
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