it's been a while since i updated. i guess the ten baby requirement had gotten to me more than i thought it would.
i'm in my 4th week of ONG posting. this week i'm supposed to go to the postnatal ward (where mommies who have delivered their babies go to rest and are monitored closely before they are discharged). it's not a very interesting ward because most of the mommies are tired and sleeping. nak go adore their babies pun takut kacau karang. the important thing to learn here is how they manage these mommies after different kinds of deliveries like spontaneous vaginal deliveries (the normal ones), caesarian section, or instrumental deliveries (yg kene guna forceps etc to).
since my labour room week will be during the 6th and 7th week, i have to remain patient and wait for my turn. some of my friends have completed all ten whilst i hadn't even one, and that was rather eating away at me. i felt depressed a bit. during my on-calls (from 6pm to 12.00pm on certain nights), i didn't get to conduct any deliveries because there were no patients who were in labour yet. one time i had taken cared of a patient in the husband friendly room (ade patient tu je), and one nurse allowed me to conduct it but then when the time came, another nurse took over coz she said i was still unconfident. well, how am i supposed to learn if they don't give me a chance to do it myself.
yesterday, i was oncall and took care of one patient (itu pun my fren yg bagi coz she's oredi got 5 and i guess my misery was obvious). for each patient, we have to time how many contractions in ten minutes for every half an hour, monitor the patient's progress and prepare all the stuff for the delivery etc. the patient was a 19 year old, gravida 2 para 1 (ngandung 2 kali anak sorang) who had a history of a previous caeser 2 years ago. she was rather restless and moaning in pain. i was anxious too coz it was my first time conducting. seriously, observing is never the same with doing things yourself. she seemed lethargic and in so much pain that i asked the nurse for her to be given Enthonox (a form of inhaled painkiller). at first she didn't take to the Enthonox very well and wouldn't inhale it but then she inhaled too much that she kept dozing off. i was worried because i wasn't sure if that was supposed to happen or not and kept calling the nurse and doctors. she kept saying that she'd rather have an operation because she hadn't the energy to push. i tried to boost her morale and encourage her but it didn't work much. the contractions became more painful and she was more violent. she was wriggling on the bed and tossing and turning. the carditocograph(CTG) to monitor the contractions and baby's heart rate couldn't get a proper reading because of her constant change in position. seeing her violent nature, more nurses came to see what was going on and she kept on wishing for an operation to put her out of her pain. the nurses discouraged her and said that if she had a 2nd caeser at 19, the next time she gets pregnant she's more likely to have another caeser and then she'll have to have a BTL (bitubal ligation aka ikat fallopian tube) done. at this point, this smart mouth of mine had to comment that private hospitals allowed more than 3 caesers and a BTL did not have to be done. i did not intend to put anyone down or argue. actually i was just voicing out my curiosity on the discrepancy. the nurse took it differently and thought me arrogant and 'melawan'. she went and told all the other nurses about it.
(bas nak sampai dah. )
to be continued...
