it's a girl!

I finally got to go to OB for the first time last night. What a refreshing experience!! And to go there and find a lady about to give birth. Since we are starting on our OB/Maternal-Neonatal rotation in the fall, I jumped on the experience as soon as I found out. It took 2 hours of grueling pushing to finally get the baby out.. a whopping 9 lbs! And her first baby... but it was so beautiful. Beautiful in the sense that a new life has joined the world and beautiful in that it was so nice to see healthy young people instead of our normal elderly patients on the regular floor. I really love to work in the unit, but I really enjoyed working with the moms and babies as well. I do hope I get to do it again sometime in the future. I am up way past my bedtime, but will add more to the story later when I can get my thoughts completely together. :)

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On another note.. my youngest son's baseball team won their first All-Star game yesterday. Congrats to all of the boys on the team and hoping for another win tonight in the tournament!
Unfortunately, they lost the next two games and were defeated :( I am so proud of my son for his outstanding performance though. It is really something when the coach of the other team comes up to tell him what a good ballplayer he is :))