But I guess it's nobody's fault. It's in our genes. We have a strong family history of diabetes, so big babies is expected. Still, I don't want my first baby to be more than 3.5 kg!!!
When I was in the labour ward, you can actually expect who's first child will deliver fast, and who will take more than 10 hours. I mainly talk about first child, because after the second, the babies can pop out (oh yes, we actually use that word) anytime. For 2nd child onwards, these mother can deliver anytime, from the time they move their butt from the wheelchair...to the bed.
There are quite a few numbers of policewoman and women-soldiers who deliver at the hospital. These are the woman who I usually watch out for. They can deliver within 4 hours of active stage (active stage means he opening is already 3 cm or more). I think it's because they are active, always on their feet.
So when I talk to women who don't do much physical activities, i.e officework, stay at home, or simply 'saya memang tak buat banyak kerja, rehat je jaga kesihatan', I'm very sorry they'll probably will take a lonnnnnggggggggg time bearing the contraction pain.
As for doctors, especially house officers, it's expected that we'll get pre-term babies, and bleeding during pregnancies are common. We simply have to be on our toes most of the time, and sometimes it's because we can't help ourselves. We don't the baby we are carrying, we just wanna finish the task at hand.
Today, I worked for half day only. When I got home, Rusydan said I slept like this...
so he left me be. I thought of kemas rumah, but oh well. Besok lah. Hehe.
I'm taking care of the paediatric surgery ward without any partner this month. That means working everyday including both saturday and sunday, but at least those weekends are half day unless I'm on-call. But my medical officers and lecturer are great. I hope they don't have any problem with me. I hope I'm getting better at inserting lines for little tiny babies. It's a cruel world.
But I really like it there. Sometimes I'm too busy to even play with the babies, but I take time to pat and stroke and pinch them when I gave them IV drugs or when I pass by during my rounds. Sometimes I do my own pm rounds at 2 juz to remind myself which patient is facing which illness and receiving what treatments. Remembering 16 different patients is not that easy.
Can't wait to see my nephew Ammar. Hmm, now me and rusydan have to think of other short names starting with the letter A for our kids. Rusydan kata kena cop nama awal2 so that kak chal and abg aswi tak amik dulu. hehehe
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Ahmad Salman
DATE: 03/23/2007 07:59:36 AM
hahaha... kalau tido je kerja, malas la maman nak teman kan ici. maman pon boring...
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