Have you ever delivered a baby at your job?

[liberalnurse]

I did last week....and my Clinic is not set-up for it at all, no physician...just me and 2 LPN's and a medic. The Squad was called but it all happened in 15 minutes....A girl! 6 pounds.....alive, cute.....

Mom was high on heroin at the time and did not have labor signs; water did not break, no bloody show...just bulging perineum 15 minutes before birth...weak cry,I had no suction.... pinked up with oxygen from an adult mask which was placed along side of the face....it pooped!


The mom never acknowledged the baby...I did! For privacy purposes, I can't show the pic's.

I felt like a GODDESS!

Baby is off the ventilator, doing well, still being detoxed.

[NMMNG]

1. Kudos!

:applause:


Thank goodness you were there.

[liberalnurse]

5. Yes, the baby would of been

in a trash dump.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Congratulations!

All births are amazing. I've never been involved in one at my work. Well, other than the kittens that is.

I hope the child does well. It's such a shame that she had to start life like that.

[americanstranger]

3. No, they wouldn't fit into the pizza boxes.

Kidding.

That's an amazing thing you did. Congratulations on a job well done.

- as

[Botany]

4. Way to go!

Conga Rats

[Beaverhausen]

6. That poor baby

She is lucky you were there to help her, but how horrible to have to detox from heroin after the trauma of birth.

Is mom going to get to keep her?



I have been present in a delivery room- when my nephew was born.

[liberalnurse]

9. No, she's back out hooking.....

She was hooking the night before she went into labor. ...This is her 5th...which might explain the quick labor somewhat....the heroin onboard also masked labor of course.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. You're A Nurse So It's More Likely For You...

Congrats...

[liberalnurse]

8. Not many nurses

deliver babies alone, unprepared and with a drugged up mom in sluggish labor.....:scared:

[tularetom]

10. Do calves count?

We used to have a small herd and I was present at many births each year.

Glad I don't have tro do that anymore.

[liberalnurse]

12. Sure...calves count!

Unexpected births always count.O8)

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Wow! *hugs*

[undeterred]

13. no, but I found a toddler on the railroad tracks

and brought him to a safe place before the freight train came

[Kingshakabobo]

20. I found an elderly lady on the tracks and did the same thing. She was kinda like a baby. n/t

[kestrel91316]

14. Well, five of them were born in one of my cages one night several years ago....

:evilgrin:

Oh, and at my first job up in OR there were lambs, kids, and more calves than I can count. More C-sections than I can count, too.

[Madspirit]

17. You're a doctor

How many baby animals have you delivered do you think?

Lee

[kestrel91316]

18. Very few, actually, other than the calves.

Cats virtually never need help. Dogs and the others only rarely. We did a lot of bovine c-sections because there was a huge Simmental operation in town and they weren't good about keeping the Simmental bulls out of the Hereford heifer pastures. Big bull + small young heifer = huge calf, c-section, lol.

I've seen a couple of cats in 25 years that needed help. Couple of dog c-sections (cat-only practice the past 16 yrs).

[Madspirit]

19. Cool

We used to take our cats to a Cat Only doctor. She was just too far out of town for our old clunky car but it was great. Our cats never had to sit in the waiting room with a giant dog scaring them.

Lee

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. Yes, by FedEx Express®. -nt

[Madspirit]

16. Good Job!

Sad about mom...

Lee