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I got to help deliver my first baby last night! It was amazing! I thought I would be grossed out by the blood, fluid, and ok I won't give you guys any more details...but I wasn't, it truly was one of the neatest experiences I have ever had! What made it so neat you may ask? The family I worked with, they were such a neat family and you could see the bond they had. I got to work with this family from start to finish of the birthing process. And I loved being able to see the procedure through. Many time in nursing you are apart of the process but you don't get to see the whole process through with labor and delivery you do.
I also like the autonomy nurses in labor and delivery have, they do all the meds, checking of the patient, and they make decisions without having the call the Dr. every five minutes. It is an amazing area to work.
I am planning on applying for an externship this summer and have to pick what area I want to go into. Well that is easier said then done, there are so many things that sound interesting but it is hard to pick what you really want. I think I have decided on labor and delivery! You get the excitement of the ER, you get to spend time with your patients, and you have a lot of autonomy! PERFECT!
On the other hand, my life has been busy as usual. Full of lab simulations, clinicals paperwork, exams, reading, and lots and lots of busy work. At this point I am as tired as I was at the end of finals week last semester! I need an endless supply of energy and something to make my mind calm down when I try to go to sleep so I can actually sleep! maybe this is just nursing school syndrome, if so this may be a sleepless semester. As long as I make it through I don't care how much work it takes or how much busy work I have to endure I will make it. Because I LOVE it!
Today was my first day of OB clinical and I LOVED it! To be honest with you I didn't think I would, for one watching a baby come through a hole that is much to small does not sound appealing, and I have been going through a baby phase for about the last year and playing with a bunch of newborns cannot be good for me. But I loved it. I was in the newborn nursery all day. We had the babies right after they were delivered and then we would take vital signs and bath them and be sure they were stable before sending them into the room to be with their families. We also took care of the babies when the parents didn't want the babies in the room (and you would be shocked at how many babies spent more time in the nursery with us than in the room with their families!).
I learned a lot today. one of the things I learned was how amazing our bodies are, especially as women. God put a lot of thought into creating us. I got to see a placenta today (apparently they keep them for 7 days after the birth) and I was amazed. The membrane was so thin and then the vascular bed and umbilical cord were so thought out. God created our bodies just perfectly to incubate a growing baby and feed it so it has the nutrients to grow, all they while our bodies are still functioning for us! It truly is amazing!
I also got to spend a lot of time loving on newborn infants. Some of these infants made me sad, like the one who parents left him there and are not coming back to get him, or the girl whose mom was on crack and so the baby has been going through withdrawal for 2 days and will not be going home with her mom. It amazes me! I can't believe people can be so selfish especially with an infant who can't defend itself or even choose to be born, it is your actions that creates a baby! And you are responsible for taking care of yourself when you are pregnant because it is not just you! As I fed and held these babies, I just couldn't see how anyone could leave them, or be so selfish that they wouldn't put the baby's needs first. I just don't get it. I also don't get the moms who have a baby and the baby spends most of the time in the nursery away from the mom. If it were me I would want the baby there ALL the time! I don't understand. What I do know was that God put me in that nursery today to love on those babies. That He knew they needed someone in their lives to hold them, pray over them, and love them, and I did! Those babies were precious!
I really enjoyed my first day of OB clinical. Even more than I thought I ever would. As I go through school I keep seeing why God has called me to be a nurse. It is amazing to be chasing the dream that not only I desired but God placed in my heart! I cannot wait to see what God does with me in the next few years! Of this I am sure I will be able to be God's hands and feet in a way that not many people will get a chance to experience, today I got to hold some of His babies, the ones who needed His arms wrapped around them, He used my arms to wrap around them and my hands to bath them and my heart to love them. Life is truly amazing!
Outside my window...The stars are out! I heard it was a great day today...I wouldn't know I was in a hospital all day playing with babies
I am thinking... I really want to read twilight and go to bed
I am thankful for... So many things right now. We underestimate the amazement of our bodies God created and after taking care of newborns and hearing about births all day I am amazed at how much thought God must have put into us
From the kitchen... We had Arby's. After being at clinicals for 10 hours you don't really feel like cooking, it was good though (and Jeremy's night to cook so...we went out)
I am reading... The fourth Twilight book.....and many many nursing books! :)
I am hoping...that the cold that is coming on goes away, and that I will be blessed with an abundance of energy
I am creating... Nothing right now except for care plans....I really need to scrapbook but that will have to wait till this summer....
I am hearing... Jeremy's rock music play form the back bedroom as he works out
One of my favorite things... Sleeping in! (I have to agree with Kara on this one, not much gets better than sleeping in!)
A few plans for the week... Study for my OB exam I have next week, finish up my Med/Surg simulation homework, do my ob clinical homework and care plans, read read read, study for my Med/surg exam, spend time with Jeremy, take a nap, and go to Jazzercise. (yes, I know my life revolves around school, what can I say the life of a nursing student!)
Some of you may have kids, some may be taking care of your parents or siblings, but I have a dog. Jeremy and I call her our "fur baby". I adore her! We don't have kids yet so we definitely have made Ziggy our baby. She is not "spoiled" in the since that we buy her clothes or feed her people food, but she is well loved! She sleeps in our bed, she listen when you talk to her, and she almost never interrupts, unless she doesn't like what you are saying and then she ever so nicely will whack you on the head or arm with her paw while she glares at you. She is a dog, I know this, but she has more personality than some people I have met! She has an attitude and will argue with you if you tell her no. When she gets mad, she will sit really close to you and stare at you and when you reach out to touch her she will jerk her head away and glare in your direction. She has a mind of her own. But when I am sad or stressed she sits next to me and cuddles with me. She listens to me read her pharmacology, med/surg, and anything else in nursing. She naps with me, and runs around outside with me. She never judges me or says mean things to me (granted she can't talk), she always loves me and gets excited everytime I walk in the door. She is my buddy! I know she is just a dog to some of you, but to me she is my companion that I love to spend time with! I hope you all have something in your life that brings you as much joy and comfort as Ziggy does to me!
Goodbye fun, goodbye friends, goodbye sleep, goodbye anything not related to nursing school. If you are not in nursing school you may think I am overreacting or exaggerating, but if you are in nursing school you completely understand what I mean.
Today I started back to nursing school.....it is a sad and exciting day. Sad because nursing school owns my life, I schedule my time around clinical and exams and when they change my schedule everything else changes around nursing school. Exciting because after this semester I only have two semesters left! Only two!!! And then I am free! I am also excited to see what this semester will bring. Each semester is full of learning experiences, new classes, and seeing how hard I can push myself. Each semester I learn that I can rise to the occasion, I can study harder, I can go longer without sleep, and I can push myself harder than I ever imagined. Each semester I meet new patients, I get to learn about them and spend time with them, I get to learn a new area in nursing, and I always have fun stories from clinical! As much as it pushes me and makes it hard to socialize with anyone I love it! I love everything about it! I love the pace, I love pushing myself, I love finding new limits, and I love the patients! I am excited to see what this semester has in store for me and I am excited to share those experiences with you. Sometimes I may be down and sometimes I may be excited or even looking forward to the future, either way I will share these experiences with you! I am looking forward to this semester and the experiences it holds!
Now off to study.....
Many of you who know me know I love to bake. I am pretty good at it too! I love the fact that baking involves recipes and everything is measured exactly there is no guess work involved. I find it relaxing to bake, I love the anticipation of waiting for that ooey, gooey, sweet, delicious, dessert to come out of the oven, and then waiting even a little longer for it to cool until you can't take it anymore and you have to eat it while it is hot. I just love everything about baking! I also love the fact that everything I bake turns out great! It always has, now cooking is another story but baking I can do. Until last night......
I have been sick for the last 4-5 days with some kind of cold/flu thing that will not go away! To make myself semi-conscious I have been drugged up on a continuous flow of cold medicine so I don't choke on the massive amounts of snot running out my nose and down my throat. To top it all off I started coughing and my head is killing me. Yes I know I should go to the Doctor, but I am starting to feel better now, and the streams of snot are slowing down. Anyways, last night Jeremy came home craving my homemade chocolate cake, he wanted it so bad he was even willing to go to the store and buy eggs so I could make it for him. Well, what do you say to that, he has taken such great care of me these last few days and he has worked so hard lately so I could not resist his plea for cake. So I agree to make the cake and we head to the store to buy eggs. When we get back I begin making the cake. I check all the ingredients and measurements 3-4 times because I know I am drugged up on cold medicine and sometimes it can cloud your thinking. I make it through the recipe without any problems, poor the cake into the cake pans and bake. The cakes bake, I remember to take them out on time, let the cool a little and then go to take them out of the pans.....the cakes are stuck! They will not move! I beat gently on the pans and still no moving of cake is going on! I must have forgotten to spray the cake pans before I put the cake in the pans, so here sits my beautiful chocolate cakes that we are now going to have to scrap out of the cake pans into a "cake heap" on a plate. Jeremy proceeds to laugh at the pile of of cake that lays before him, I have to admit it was quit comical, I never made something quit like it. It tasted great! But the looks not so up to par.
