Hoon-gray baby

Today was a crazy day on L and D! Almost all of the rooms were full so we were very busy from the beginning of the day. T and I had two patients who weren't very far along so we were able to help out the other nurses which gave me a chance to do a lot of things. For example, I had never been a "baby nurse" before and I was able to do that three times today! A baby nurse comes in the room right when the baby is about to be delivered and washes the baby off, takes vital signs, gives him/her some medication, takes their footprints, weighs them and swaddles them up (my favorite part) and hands them to the mom or dad. I love this because it gives me a chance to be with the baby which is a part of L and D that I shamelessly am obsessed with. I was also able to be a baby nurse during a C-section which was a little more intense but even more exciting.

Later in the day I was able to help with a delivery which turned out to be pretty interesting...The mom that was delivering was very sweet as was her husband, but they brought their entire family clan into the room and they wanted to be involved in every aspect of the day. These people were definitely hillbillies. Now I'm not saying that in a derogatory manner but they were hillbillies and proud of it. I heard multiple yee-haws when that baby was born so don't even argue with me. (T teased me and said that I'd probably never seen anyone like them in the OC). Anyways, the reason the delivery turned out to be interesting was because the dad was a little queasy so he asked me to get up with the mom and help her push. I was standing right over/next to her when she pushed and something (I'd rather not know what exactly) squirted all over me and my scrub top. This was during the middle of the delivery so I had to spend the next 20 minutes in a soaking wet top while this baby was delivered. I was trying so hard not to freak out because I knew that this moment was about the mom and baby but I couldn't run out of that room and change faster as soon as that baby was born! Other than that, this day was another great one! I'm going to end this post with another ridiculous story that a L and D nurse told me even though I didn't witness it myself...

So this nurse was doing an exam on a patient and during the exam she found...a banana...an entire banana, placed somewhere a banana should not be. This nurse questioned the patient about why there was a banana there and the patient replied as if the nurse was dense, "The baby was hoooon-gray." The nurse proceeded to explain patiently how the baby is through what the mom eats, etc. While this story is so outrageous I am starting to realize that this is not that far fetched based on some of the people/things I've already seen after just 4 days! At least she was trying to feed her "hoon-gray" baby with something nutritious, it could have been a donut!