OB Update

For the past two Thursdays and Fridays, 14 students have been waking up at the crack of dawn  before the crack of dawn to make it to our clinical placement in Annapolis on time; our car leaves Baltimore at 0530!  Thanks to the rain and a long week (keep in mind it is only week two of ten) the back row passed out.  

Each week we flip between labor/delivery and postpartum; today we spent the day on the L&D floor and I got to see my first birth.  I will save you all the nitty gritty, but share three quick things:

1. The family was super excited to hear that this was my first birth too
2. Half way through the birth, the Midwife turned to me and asked if I was interested in going to OB.  While I normally would tell someone no, I obviously could not say that in front of the Midwife and the family, so I stuck with the "I am still exploring the field and trying to figure out what I want to do."
3. The first words out of my mouth to my instructor when she asked me how it went was "Well it was interesting, but definitely not my thing."

While I don't think I will end up on a L&D floor, I could work for a little while on a postpartum floor.  It is crazy to think that we only have six more OB days until we switch to Peds (which I am super excited about)!