BABY 60 Before 2010!!!!
"Wow" is definitely one of the words the come to mind when thinking on the reality of already having delivered 60 babies. Blessed, privileged, honored and ecstatic are a few other. :)
To think that in the past 13 months (I started handling on Nov 13, 2008), I was given the opportunity and experience of assisting 60 babies into this world blows my mind! God is so good!! Without all the practical hands-on experience this clinic has/is providing, I think I would still be trying to figure out the basics of midwifery! :P It's amazing to be able to read something in a textbook and then to experience it first hand! God must have known it would take the second part in order for things to click in my head.. :) I love it, and bring myself back to this reality when I begin to feel overwhelmed or exhausted. There is much to learn, and now is the time and place! Well, I think that learning part will continue for as long as I live...:)
This morning was another learning experience for me with a difficult delivery at 5:18am. I ended up transporting the mother immediately. I went back to the hospital later to see if she was okay and had be transferred to the main ward. Thank God I found her, and she was doing well! I then went back Mercy and picked up her baby to bring back to the hospital to be reunited with her mother. :)
Soooo.... We are now on the home-stretch!! It's exciting and nerve wracking all at the same time! But I'm not going to lie... I'm looking forward to finishing up these studies! :)

Below I posted a few pictures of the birth of Honey Mae's baby girl- Rezhra Czarina ($5 if you can correctly pronounce it :D). She was my 60th handle!


One of my favorite pictures (above)

Well there ya have it! :) Hope you all have a wonderful week! Pray that I don't kill anyone with cooking this week! ;)
-SH