Friday, August 24, 2007

First Assisted Delivery

I assisted in a delivery for the first time. The doctor delivered the head, and I caught the rest of the baby which was a healthy 3.77kg Chinese girl with "meee meee (little sleet) eyes - the eyes must be inherited from the father, cos the mother didnt look so meee meee. I then delivered the placenta myself, and sutured up the 1st degree tear! The doctor supervising me thought my suturing skills were pretty good and commented "She is going to have a lovely looking vagina because of you!" haha.. what a complement I must say!

Hopefully now that I have assisted, the senior doctors will let me do the main delivering next time.

2 comments:

Sulaiman said...

the Question is ... did ur doctor say that in front of the lady ?

Avadine said...

Yes, but the patient spoke very little English. I had to communicate to her in Mandarin. For once, my Mandarin came in handy.